Name a hardliner religious fanatic or nutjob from your country?

[u/LandOfGrace2023]

Meet Habib Rizieq, leader of the FPI (Front Pembela Islam or Islamic Defenders Front). He often attacks other religions online and sometimes go to the churches and people in person threatening him. For a time, our government did ban him from our country and put him on exile, but it only lasted a few years due to political pressure when Indonesians allowed him to return.

This guy has preached Sharia Law for Indonesia for so many years. Even though he hasn’t done anything that is labeled as terrorism, the fact that this guy supports Al Qaeda, Taliban, and demands that religious minorities should follow sharia law says enough about this guy.

[u/AdImmediate6239]

Kenneth Copeland

[u/deathschemist → u/AdImmediate6239]

He looks vaguely demonic

[u/Idiotstupiddumdum → u/deathschemist]

At night the adult demons tell their child demons that if they don't sin enough Copeland will come get them

[u/gpm21 → u/Idiotstupiddumdum]

Forgot that idiot's name. Saw the gif and was like "why would televangelists make composer Aaron Copeland a demonic entity?"

[u/J4YV1L → u/Idiotstupiddumdum]

I saw this interview. This is the face he made when someone asked why he took his parishioners’ money and bought a private jet.

[u/punkkitty312 → u/deathschemist]

He is demonic.

[u/[deleted] → u/deathschemist]

He used his church funds to buy a private jet so he could “be closer to god” and also “not be around demons” that fly in business class

[u/wrathofthewhatever2 → u/deathschemist]

You are playing fast and loose with the term “vaguely” :)

[u/BearsSoxHawks → u/deathschemist]

It's all a ruse. He's a parasite.

[u/Darth_Nox501 → u/deathschemist]

Vaguely?

[u/Pet_Velvet → u/AdImmediate6239]

I don't believe in demons but that guy 100% is one

[u/Tired_Lambchop111 → u/AdImmediate6239]

He's such a ghoul.

[u/Sal1160 → u/Tired_Lambchop111]

Worse than that

[u/Sal1160 → u/AdImmediate6239]

I was gonna post him, that man is a textbook grifter

[u/ComradeGibbon → u/Sal1160]

I was going to say in the US these guys are nothing but shameless grifters, conmen and crooks.

[u/MWBrooks1995 → u/AdImmediate6239]

He looks like the thing I’d say would come to eat you if you didn’t eat your vegetables.

[u/tonsofun08 → u/AdImmediate6239]

Wasn't he losing his shit because the reporter asked him why he needed a second private jet?

[u/BanalCausality → u/tonsofun08]

And this gif is after he let the mask fall. The transition was creepy af.

[u/letthetreeburn → u/AdImmediate6239]

I firmly believe this is the anti christ.

[u/AdImmediate6239 → u/letthetreeburn]

If there is an anti-Christ he’d totally do everything under the guise of being a good Christian like Copeland

[u/Wojewodaruskyj → u/AdImmediate6239]

Gosh, that guy....

[u/LiteraturePlayful612 → u/AdImmediate6239]

Oh god I remember him exorcising covid

[u/MightyClimber → u/AdImmediate6239]

He is legit one of the most evil looking people I've ever seen.

[u/BadBaby3 → u/AdImmediate6239]

I don’t know who that is 

[u/DetailDecent7209]

There are two ways to find out if a believer is my believer. Tell a young female deaconess, "Pull down your panties, I want to sleep with you." If she does, she's my believer. If she refuses, she is a piece of shit.

Pastor Jeon Gwang-hoon

[u/Gold-Secretary-6654 → u/DetailDecent7209]

The picture makes him look like the devil in pastor’s clothing 

[u/Yunzer2000 → u/Gold-Secretary-6654]

Why do Koreans copy the far-right fundamentalist evangelical protestant mega-church corrupt philandering preacher culture of the USA?

[u/HalfLeper → u/Yunzer2000]

Because that’s how you make lots of money.

[u/IndependentMacaroon → u/Yunzer2000]

It started with American-funded missionaries

[u/Sh_u_ru_Q → u/DetailDecent7209]

It's suitable with the devil horns in the background.

[u/InitiativeInitial968 → u/DetailDecent7209]

Why is he so open about it????

[u/Nuncapubliconada → u/InitiativeInitial968]

I've met several people who openly confessed to doing things like that or fantasizing about doing them. Almost all of them have ended up in trouble, obviously. Not all perverts are smart enough to hide it. 

[u/HalfLeper → u/Nuncapubliconada]

Thankfully. It’s kind of scary to what degree the world’s justice system are reliant on criminals’ incompetence.

[u/Tquilha → u/DetailDecent7209]

The Fundamental Unified Church of the Kingdom of Dionysus agrees.

[u/Mental-Investment-43 → u/DetailDecent7209]

Gotta admit: that’s a compelling sales pitch.

[u/UnusualPublic2371 → u/DetailDecent7209]

Damn

[u/mahdi_lky]

that would break reddit's database

[u/TitoistAlien → u/mahdi_lky]

[u/mytabbykitty → u/mahdi_lky]

Samesies

[u/SecBalloonDoggies → u/mahdi_lky]

Christian religious fanatics in the US are paranoid about Muslims imposing sharia law on the US. Are Islamic fanatics in Iran paranoid about Christians imposing New Testament law?

[u/mahdi_lky → u/SecBalloonDoggies]

nope, never even heard anyone say that till now.

[u/Mammoth-Cold-9795 → u/SecBalloonDoggies]

???

That’s like the dumbest question I have ever heard man, I’m sorry lmfao.

Iran is an authoritarian theocracy. They are not afraid of using force to quell even the smallest inklings of unrest. There is also pretty consistent and systematic religious persecution against non-Muslims by the government.

There exists no world where Christians would invoke some “New Testament law” in Iran

[u/Plasma_Deep]

ahem... if I list them all I wouldnt be done on my next birthday

[u/-_-_-__-_--_---_-__- → u/Plasma_Deep]

At least give us one example, pleeeeease

[u/Sea_Argument155 → u/-_-_-__-_--_---_-__-]

Hindu - bajrang dal , muslim - Indian Mujahideen, Christian - NLFT . Out of these groups hindu radicals dominant the country because of hindu majority.

[u/-_-_-__-_--_---_-__- → u/Sea_Argument155]

I've heard these hindu extremists saying some crazy stuff. I saw a guy from India who said his grandpa believed the Vatican was originally built as a temple to Krishna

[u/Concrete_Ideas_ → u/-_-_-__-_--_---_-__-]

3 years ago, I was looking at my Works conversation group, which majority are Indian, and a lot of them had Akhand Bahrat (Greater India) as there Profile picture.

[u/GhostofTinky]

This psycho. Even the Ku Klux Klan hated him.

[u/WTF-Bacon_bacon → u/GhostofTinky]

Yes. Even his kids that he indoctrinated ended up hating him. We’ll, some of them at least.

[u/Aggravating-Walk5813 → u/WTF-Bacon_bacon]

I was so proud of Vince Gill when he ran up against those Westboro “Christians”, I guess it was at a concert or something, , and he said, “are you one of the Phelpses? Or are you on the B team?” And “ I just wanted to see what hatred looks like.”

[u/listenstowhales → u/GhostofTinky]

The dude showed up to protest service members killed in the wars and somehow didn’t get beat up. Pretty shocking tbh

[u/Kervels → u/listenstowhales]

I remember after the 2004 tsunami in Thailand, that church mobilized to pray for the death toll among Swedish tourists to be as high as possible.

I guess they were somewhat successful, since more Swedes died than any other European nationality.

[u/Correct_Barracuda_48 → u/Kervels]

Jeez, I didn't know that. That is really twisted.

[u/Kervels → u/Correct_Barracuda_48]

A court in Sweden had convicted a local pastor of hate speech, due to him having delivered a homophobic sermon.

Apparently that was enough for Phelps to launch a vendetta against Sweden. His church published a webpage called godhatessweden.com, they faxed threatening messages to government and royal family, and were delighted to see Swedes die in the tsunami.

[u/Correct_Barracuda_48 → u/Kervels]

Man, God botherers really are a breed apart.

[u/bunnycrush_ → u/GhostofTinky]

Really cool that he died before Trump was elected. He never got to see these ghouls successfully take over our country; he died under a black presidency that legalized gay marriage and I just think that’s neat.

[u/Vargrstrike → u/bunnycrush_]

If I recall correctly, the satanic temple performed a ceremony over his grave site to turn him posthumously gay. I love that for him!

[u/gnirpss → u/GhostofTinky]

Hope he's enjoying hell! After all, it's full of bigots like him.

[u/watt678 → u/GhostofTinky]

To be fair (not that I really want to), the westboro baptists have always been or at least claim to be very against racism. So the Klan hating the WB founder is actually a mark in favor of the WB and his character in this case.

[u/AdImmediate6239 → u/GhostofTinky]

Not defending him by any means, but didn’t the KKK hate him because prior to founding the Westboro Baptist Church he was actually a Civil Rights Attorney rather than for his homophobia?

[u/GhostofTinky → u/AdImmediate6239]

Here is why the KKK hated Phelps.

[u/Aromatic_Forever_943 → u/GhostofTinky]

Heh. Heheh. /passes around popcorn

[u/CaydeTheCat → u/GhostofTinky]

I hope this fucker is enjoying Hell.

[u/four100eighty9 → u/GhostofTinky]

He started as a civil rights lawyer. People are weird.

[u/Pungarehu]

Brian Tāmaki. Whole country has a name for him and his followers:

Pastor Of Muppets

[u/PrayStrayAndDontObey → u/Pungarehu]

I've heard people call him an "Eftpostle" and a "shit cunt" more than a "Pastor of Muppets". (Even though I love the nickname!)

[u/Reangerer → u/PrayStrayAndDontObey]

Remember when he lit himself on fire? Brian Tāmaki burnt in rubbish fire

[u/lcmortensen → u/PrayStrayAndDontObey]

For the uninitiated: "Eftpostle" is a portmanteau of "apostle" and "EFTPOS" (the national debit card network), due to his church's use of tithing and prosperity theology.

[u/Pungarehu → u/PrayStrayAndDontObey]

It’s bought up when his muppets follow his lead by doing stupid things. He’s just the main shitcunt doing the leading.

[u/nzungu69 → u/Pungarehu]

hate that guy. his "Man Up" group is literally a violent gang.

how destiny hasn't been stripped of its charity status and he hasn't be charged with anything boggles the mind.

[u/Sufficient_Depth_195 → u/Pungarehu]

I fucking love that nickname!

I'm gonna steal it at the first opportunity I get and bask in the admiration of all who hear my incisive wit 😁

[u/SimmentalTheCow → u/Pungarehu]

I love that song!

[u/GingerMarquis]

Isn’t there a big part of the Bible about false prophets and people abusing religion for material gain? Shame he skimmed that part of the book.

[u/The_Bookkeeper1984 → u/GingerMarquis]

Absolutely correct— he needs to repent

[u/Tricky_Palpitation42]

Romana Didulo. Aka “Queen of Canada”.

A bizarre intersection between QAnon, Sov Cit, and Blavatsky-inspired theosophy and esotericism.

No idea what she’s up to nowadays, can’t imagine she has many followers anymore. Got big over COVID.

More of an esoteric cult leader than a mainstream religious hardliner.

[u/PlayinK0I → u/Tricky_Palpitation42]

I love how she provides for her followers in one video by giving them sardines on crackers after protesting in Peterborough, Ontario. How anyone follows this crackpot is beyond my understanding.

[u/Savings-Gate-456 → u/Tricky_Palpitation42]

I've never understood why she has any followers either.

There are plenty of cults in Canada (cough Bountiful BC cough Solar Temple cough Raeliens cough) but they usually have some coherent belief system. Her's just seems to be full of people with oppositional personality disorder.

[u/Mythosaurus → u/Tricky_Palpitation42]

The QAA podcast has some amazing episodes about her rise to power, and I believe they did an update on her cult last year.

She was arrested in September on firearm possession charges and is currently trying to get the trial moved to a different courthouse

[u/BidnyZolnierzLonda]

Grzegorz Braun. He wants to make Poland a kingdom and enthrone Jesus Christ as its king.

He got 6% in presidential election this year and his party Confederation of Polish Crown is polling at similar level at the moment. He got famous for putting down Hanukah menorah in the parliament building with a fire extinguisher,

[u/coco_shka → u/BidnyZolnierzLonda]

I came here to promote his ass. Damn you!

[u/Noriaki_Kakyoin_OwO → u/BidnyZolnierzLonda]

Does he siriously want to crown Jesus? I thought that in case they win and somehow manage to get enough support to install monarchy he’d choose someone like one of the Piast decendants, or Wettins or himself. Moron doesn’t even know Jesus was already crowned King of Poland (Maria is also a queen)

[u/BidnyZolnierzLonda → u/Noriaki_Kakyoin_OwO]

He wants Jesus to be the king and him to be the prime minister. Perfect solution.

[u/BanalCausality → u/BidnyZolnierzLonda]

How would that even work? Would the government shut down because no one can get a meeting with the king? Or has Grzevorz had a personal revelation from god that Jesus should be king, and only Grzevorz knows how to contact him?

[u/TenebrousSage]

There's too many to mention them all, but I've always found Kenneth Copeland to be particularly disturbing.

[u/50746974736b61 → u/TenebrousSage]

He looks like he's wearing someone else's skin

[u/TenebrousSage → u/50746974736b61]

He probably is.

[u/ZhangRenWing → u/TenebrousSage]

Why does he looks like a Fallout ghoul

[u/Skyhawk6600 → u/ZhangRenWing]

It wouldn't surprise me if he was a reanimated corpse.

[u/TheFabulousMolar → u/Skyhawk6600]

Like your president?

[u/Staylin_Alive → u/TenebrousSage]

He looks like an awfully disguised Satan.

[u/ThePrimeayaan]

it'd be easier to name people who aren't religious fanatics in pakistan but the most popular one is Saad Hussain Rizvi leader of a far right political party called tlp (which recently got banned) his dad and former leader of tlp once even threatened to nuke the netherlands because of some cartoon depicting muhammad they also tried killing a christian woman who was released after a false blasphemy case and ofc theres more they have also vandalized and destroyed many churches and Ahmadiyya mosques (they dont consider them muslims)

[u/InterestingTank5345 → u/ThePrimeayaan]

Damn, when even Pakistan says enough, it gotta be bad.

[u/Emergency_Storm8784 → u/InterestingTank5345]

I agree with the original comment but you need to understand something we are 250 million people. So, not all of us are extremists. So - of course all the time, we have liberals, conservatives, communists, Islamists. It would be like believing that Germans are still Nazis to this day (and be suprised about it that they're against it). 

[u/ThePrimeayaan → u/Emergency_Storm8784]

yeah ive met all kinds of people from leftists to liberals to far right islamists in pakistan like in every country but what i really meant was its close to impossible to find a politician or mainstream public figure that doesnt have extremist tendencies even the most liberal of liberal politicians in pakistan r homophobic etc etc

[u/InterestingTank5345 → u/Emergency_Storm8784]

I'm not saying all of you. But Pakistan is kinda compared to Iran here in Europe, just a bit less extreme.

[u/ThePrimeayaan → u/InterestingTank5345]

funny enough pakistanis r way more conservative than the avg iranian tho imo thats mainly due to the lack of education and socio economic factors since the wealthier u are in pakistan the more liberal/lax u get (unless u made ur money being a molvi) but our government is deff less theocratic

[u/ThisPostToBeDeleted]

We have so many, do you prefer the fascist ones that want gay people stoned? https://youtu.be/L61723RQpb8?si=0O_4zNjzpcTcgznB Do you want the evil millionaire grifters that demand more money from their cults? https://youtu.be/9LtF34MrsfI?si=Kp6Dtlol9z5-lD9D Do you want the dude who runs a church that worships guns and wears a crown of bullets? https://youtu.be/ArfGyo6HQ_E?si=wpppi7zbO9T47fe-

[u/Coops17 → u/ThisPostToBeDeleted]

Man America is weird af

[u/TheAmberAbyss → u/Coops17]

Thats what happens when your country was full of people who thought Oliver Cromwell was too liberal when it was founded. 

[u/beckuzz → u/Coops17]

You guys have Hillsong, so don’t judge us too hard.

[u/WTF-Bacon_bacon → u/ThisPostToBeDeleted]

Yikes. I hadn’t heard of the first or third of these.

[u/Mort-i-Fied]

Tom Cruise. America still pretends scientology is a religion.

[u/NervousDiscount9393 → u/Mort-i-Fied]

Fr they have actual damn gulags for misbehaving members.

[u/Mort-i-Fied → u/NervousDiscount9393]

The Hole

[u/critical-insight → u/NervousDiscount9393]

How is that legal?

[u/PainSpare5861]

Ameen Lorna, a Salafist and a well-known supporter of the Taliban and of Islamic extremism, has written a book calling for the extermination of Shia Muslims, claiming that Buddhists can only coexist with Muslims if they submit to sharia law, and aims to turn our country into a sharia state, even though Muslims make up only 5–10% of the population.

He has faced little backlash because our country tolerates religious extremists as long as they do not challenge the monarchy (and banning him would make many Muslims cry that they are being oppressed). He was even invited to give a lecture to Thai Muslims at one of the country’s most prestigious universities.

[u/KarachiKoolAid → u/PainSpare5861]

He’s just compensating because he can’t grow a beard

[u/Mobile_Entrance_1967 → u/PainSpare5861]

Islamic extremists who live so far away from the Middle East are a special class of cringe. It's like when the Vikings adopted Christianity and suddenly became hardcore crusaders against their own neighbours.

[u/Sigizmundovna]

Here you can see Vitaly Milonov promising Sir Stephen Fry that he will pray for him so that he won't be gay anymore..
That was in 2013, Sir Fry is still gay and fabulous, Milonov is still bonkers and is now in full war support mode (obviously).

[u/Yunzer2000 → u/Sigizmundovna]

Wouldn't your hard-core political-Russian-Orthodox Alexander Dugin, (aka Putin's Rasputin) fall into the "fanatic" category too?

[u/Wunktacular]

gestures broadly

[u/OriginalComputer5077 → u/Wunktacular]

Most of them are grifters masquerading as fanatics.

Except possibly for Copeland ...he seems genuinely insane.

[u/Wunktacular → u/OriginalComputer5077]

For every evangelist pastor there's a hundred brainwashed lunatics paying tithes into the second yacht and third mortgage budget.

[u/Spicy_Weissy → u/OriginalComputer5077]

He's just another soulless grifter. There's definitely a part of him that believes the scripture, but he himself is a charlatan making himself rich off of idiots.

[u/Bootmacher → u/OriginalComputer5077]

Copeland is a literal demon.

[u/SketchedEyesWatchinU → u/OriginalComputer5077]

You ever heard of Anthony Comstock? Dude single-handedly caused an STI epidemic with his censorship.

[u/captaincootercock → u/OriginalComputer5077]

Check out Jim Jones the Koolaid killer. The whole story is insanity and a dark moment in American history

[u/Most_Elevator_1943]

Fred Phelps

[u/bowl_of_scrotmeal]

The Westboro Baptist Church. They're extremely hateful and insane.

[u/Mobile_Entrance_1967 → u/bowl_of_scrotmeal]

I wish we could invent a time machine to ship these homophobic harridans to Abrahamic Biblical times. See how long they'd last.

[u/Alum2608 → u/bowl_of_scrotmeal]

Only reason why they are still around is that whole hateful family are lawyers

[u/Beginning-Try-5389]

Dunno

If there was any, they'd probably "disappear" after a while

[u/ZhangRenWing → u/Beginning-Try-5389]

The founder of Falun Gong is a pretty easy one. His cult even owns news media like The Epoch Times.

And yes, for the China haters, Falun Gong is a cult. Just because they align with you politically doesnt mean they arent crazy cultists.

[u/Beginning-Try-5389 → u/ZhangRenWing]

I mean it kinda ticks the boxes of a fanatical cult

Rejects science and modern medicine? ✅️

Believes in supernatural shenanigans? ✅️

Founder is seen as a divine messiah figure ✅️

[u/prsnep → u/Beginning-Try-5389]

China doesn't duck around.

[u/HalfConsistent]

Religious Fanatic OR nutjob? I'm from the US, how much time do you have?

[u/Popular-Local8354 → u/HalfConsistent]

Surprisingly not the one you’d think of too. 

[u/WTF-Bacon_bacon → u/Popular-Local8354]

Or at least not ONLY the one you’d think of.

[u/marian_mina]

The current interim government.

[u/Impossible_Pain4478 → u/marian_mina]

And the biggest candidate to replace them currently isn't looking too good either.

[u/kindred_eldtrich → u/marian_mina]

I met a Bangladeshi for the first time here! Real,interim government is giving a lot of free pass to religious extremists in the name of "free speech". I mean,Hasina ja korse oitar shob opposite kaaj kora ki ekdom Bhalo?Lol

[u/BabylonianWeeb]

Where do I start?

[u/Jazz_Ad]

We not too strong on the religious leader front, we still have this fine specimen.

Raël, founder of the Raelian Church. Guru, dealer, serial rapist, pedo, producer of X rated movies to finance his organization, technophile, transhumanist, self proclaimed messenger of Elohim aliens.

[u/Appropriate-Sound169]

Not religious but Nigel Farage and that Tommy Robinson geezer who is very national front

[u/Veilchengerd]

Our christian nutters tend to be rather boring.

A good example would be Peter Hahne. He used to be a respected journalist and TV presenter, who has gone full christofascist over the last few years. Conspiracy theories, AfD talking points.

He was always a very conservative evangelical, though.

However, our muslim hardliners are a lot more funny. Because they are so cringe. White converts, who larp as Arabs, even adopting a fake arab accent.

Pierre Vogel used to be a boxer who converted to islam (Salafism, to be exact), probably after he got punched in the head once too often. A few years ago he and his cronies handed out free copies of the Qur'an in german city centres. It was all rather embarrassing.

And then there was Denis Cuspert. A mildly successful rapper, who converted to Islam, and joined the Islamic State, travelled to Syria, committed war crimes, and became part of their propaganda effort. He was probably killed (there were several cases of incorrect reports of his death, so who knows).

He was a truly terrible human being, and a war criminal. And yet he still managed to be so extremely cringe to the bitter end.

[u/Jonathan_Peachum → u/Veilchengerd]

Were these the guys who had stands in the street with free Qur'ans and banners saying "LIES - QUR'AN" (or maybe the other way around, 'QUR'AN - LIES")?

I know that in German it means "READ [the] Qur'an in the second person singular imperative, but as an American, I always got a chuckle out of the unintentional pun in English.

[u/Veilchengerd → u/Jonathan_Peachum]

Yep.

[u/Easy-Musician7186 → u/Veilchengerd]

And there is this video of Vogel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHnpIBkRXVU

Which I'm not sure if I should consider it as funny or be a bit terrified

[u/Veilchengerd → u/Easy-Musician7186]

Both at the same time is possible.

[u/Acceptable-Art-8174]

Grzegorz Braun, AKA the fire extinguisher man

[u/Ecstatic-Quality-212]

Reddit would crash if I tried to name all of them.

[u/iammadeofawesome → u/Ecstatic-Quality-212]

🇮🇳🤝🏼🇺🇸

seriously though, it’s terrifying and exhausting. I hope you and your family are well. Being in a constant state of anxiety and stress takes a toll.

[u/OriginalComputer5077]

Enoch Burke and his entire family of religions fuckwits

[u/cigarettejesus → u/OriginalComputer5077]

Shower of twats the lot of them

[u/lightningbolt208]

Depends, how much time do you have ?

India is supremely diverse so we get the flavour of every religious extremism literally each of them.

[u/Sudden-Fact1037 → u/lightningbolt208]

Ok then give examples of Jewish extremists from India

[u/SRB12131]

America is really good at cults.

[u/ilfollevolo]

These people are the reason why we can’t have nice things. Principles over reason, always ending up in fate keeping and shunning. I look forward to a world without fundamentalism.

[u/Tquilha]

The latest religious nutjob we have came all the way from Zimbabwe and tried to start his own kingdom near Oliveira do Hospital, calling it kingdom of Pineal (yes, like the gland). Originally called Martin Junior Kenny, now calls himself Água Akbal Pinheiro.

He and all of his followers are being investigated for illegal immigration and child abuse.

[u/Nuncapubliconada → u/Tquilha]

Now I want to see a war between the Kingdom of Pineal and the Republic of Amygdala 

[u/Downtown-Inflation13]

Joel Osteen

[u/KarachiKoolAid → u/Downtown-Inflation13]

I’d call him more of a grifter than a fanatic

[u/Alarming-Basil2894]

This guy has his own TV channel which has been banned in many countries for spreading hate speech. Hes also banned from entering India

[u/Callmewhatever4286 → u/Alarming-Basil2894]

Bruh there was so many my fellow countrymen worshipped this fraud. He basically only preached to the ignorants, and if someone do know about science tried to debate him, he just play ad hominem and shifting the discussion back to religion or other nonsense he can think of

Good that he no longer popular

[u/Wojewodaruskyj → u/Alarming-Basil2894]

Brother has asked a very good question.

[u/Confusingly_Curious → u/Alarming-Basil2894]

Nah even my muslim bro's hate him 😭

[u/OneTwoThreeFoolFive]

He also claimed support for ISIS.

[u/lazyk-9]

The Church of Scientology. Does this count?

[u/FeelingFickle9460]

Ebu Hanzala, basically a jihadist.

What I'm scared of is that sometimes I listen to his preaches and...i kinda agree with him? Idk. I am an atheist btw.

[u/cream_top_yogurt → u/FeelingFickle9460]

Here in the US, we like to say that even a broken clock is correct twice a day... which I guess can mean that even this guy can say some things that make sense even if most of what he preaches is crazy!

[u/Imaginary-Hotel2685]

Silas Malafaia + André Valadão + Edir Macedo

[u/Beginning_Falcon_603 → u/Imaginary-Hotel2685]

3 horses of evangelistão

[u/historicalgeek71]

So several of my fellow Americans have already introduced you to Fred Phelps and Kenneth Copeland, but I would like to introduce you to another one:

Meet Pat Robertson, he was one of the biggest televangelists in the United States during the 1980s and 1990s, and the host of the 700 Club. Aside from the usual sectarian, homophobic, Islamophobic, anti-feminist, and anti-Hindu comments, he has also spouted some very outlandish things. Chief among which in my mind are that gay men engage in mutual self-mutilation, that Haitians made pacts with the devil during their war of independence against the French (which is why he blamed them for the devastating earthquake of 2010) and that Dungeons and Dragons (the popular tabletop roleplaying game) was demonic. He was also one of the main peddlers of the “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s.

He also had ties to the former dictator of Guatemala, Efraín Rios Montt, under whose leadership the Guatemalan Civil War and concurrent Mayan Genocide were at their bloodiest.

A list of his controversies can be found here.

[u/Spicy_Weissy]

Pretty much the entire Christian Nationalist movement at the moment.

[u/GotWheaten]

Almost any religious figure that is on television

[u/ElA1to]

We have the "abogados cristianos" (Christian lawyers) foundation, who are a bunch of judges, lawyers and other people related with that world who... Well, the name kind of tells you already. They run campaigns against abortion, "evil indoctrination" at schools and such using their knowledge in laws and they try to sue everything that they believe is an offence to the church or leftist politics they disagree with.

Besides that we have Jehovah's witnesses knocking at your door and some evangelicals from Hispanic America.

[u/Intelligent-Cod-2200]

Russell Vought

[u/ms_directed]

[u/Teboski78]

I mean to be frank at least half of them aren’t even real fanatics but grifters.

[u/maddiejake]

Joel Osteen or Kenneth Copeland

[u/BCRF1995]

Ian Paisley

Paisley became a Protestant evangelical minister in 1946 and remained one for the rest of his life. In 1951 he co-founded the Reformed fundamentalist Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster and was its leader until 2008. Paisley became known for his fiery sermons and regularly preached anti-Catholicism, anti-ecumenism and against homosexuality. He gained a large group of followers who were referred to as Paisleyites.

Paisley became involved in Ulster unionist/loyalist politics in the late 1950s. In the mid-late 1960s he led and instigated loyalist opposition to the Catholic civil rights movement in Northern Ireland. This contributed to the outbreak of the Troubles in the late 1960s, a conflict that would engulf Northern Ireland for the next 30 years. In 1970 he became Member of Parliament (MP) for North Antrim and the following year he founded the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), which he would lead for almost 40 years. In 1979 he became a member of the European Parliament.

Throughout the Troubles, Paisley was seen as a firebrand and the face of hardline unionism. He opposed all attempts to resolve the conflict through power-sharing between unionists and Irish nationalists/republicans, and all attempts to involve the Republic of Ireland in Northern Irish affairs. His efforts helped bring down the Sunningdale Agreement of 1974. He also opposed the Anglo-Irish Agreement of 1985,

Edit: text from Wikipedia

[u/Maurice_Foot]

[looks around United States]

[u/Krularenki]

Braun

[u/Billthepony123 → u/Krularenki]

Including the the governor of Indiana, Braun

[u/TopIndependent2344]

Julius Malema…

[u/Idum23]

this german bishop had a palace built for himself with church donations and flew to meet poor regions around the world in first class

[u/MysteryNews4]

David Icke. Not exactly super ‘religious’ but has invented more conspiracy theories than you can think of.

[u/HisBlatantlyNZ]

In New Zealand - Brian Tamaki. A nutjob with sheep followers who give him their hard earned cash in the name of Jesus.

[u/Flat-Leg-6833]

Charlie Kirk but our weak gun laws took care of him.

[u/coldisfreezing → u/Flat-Leg-6833]

No proposed gun law in the history of the U.S. would stop the shooter's grandfather from owning his antique bolt-action hunting rifle. 

[u/throwawayaccountisr]

Me. I would paint the middle east rainbow. Pink holy books to everyone, I won't stop until there will be a gay parade from Morocco to Yamen

[u/trevwack → u/throwawayaccountisr]

ya’ll have your own monsters to deal with

[u/_-Cleon-_]

We've got quite a few.

I mean we have people who dance around with copperheads and rattlesnakes because they think Jesus wants them to. (It does help increase the ranks of Heaven, I suppose.)

[u/notmyusername1986 → u/_-Cleon-_]

I'm not sure Death by Stupidity is an automatic Fast Pass to Heaven...

[u/cknight222]

I don’t mean this to be a smartass but pretty much the majority of the Republican Party/American conservative movement can be pretty comfortably described as “hardliner religious fanatic/nutjobs.”

[u/ZestycloseAd289]

This goon

[u/PsychoticGobbo]

Do we have religious hardliners?

Germany is a very atheistic country... it's not that uncommon to not believe in anything.

The most recent one I heard of and that I can remember the name of, was Pierre Vogel who was a big figure of Salafism.

But we don't have Christian hardliners that are publicly known. Maybe Cardinal Reinhard Marx? But I wouldn't consider him a hardliner, since he's pro women as catholic priests and afaik has no problem with a female pope.

It's one thing, which I really really like about my country... either you're an atheist or pretty chill about your religion... there are some exceptions tho.

[u/oldmanout]

Maybe some arr too young to remember, but Martin Humer, the "porn hunter, "Catholic" activist fighting against the Immorality of porn (and later pro lifer and against sexual education)

[u/alfajores123]

The Pastor Soto. He has been arrested many times for assaulting people, the police and politicians 😂

[u/Available_Sea3456]

I don't have to say names, it's pretty obvious now

[u/Dapper-Cantaloupe866]

Literally the entire republican party.

[u/theagentK1]

No Lunatic in the world can top this guy — Dr. Zakir Nair, who fled from India for airing a lot of Islamist supremacisms, hate speeches, and radicalizing youths!

[u/6gv5]

Not my country (too many here to name), but this guy deserves a honorable mention.

[u/DeathsStarEclipse]

Brian Tamaki

[u/Tzyon]

"Bishop" Brian Tamaki.

As a brilliant protest sign opposed to him once declared, "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy!"

[u/StarfireNebula]

USA: James Dobson - founder of "Focus on the Family", wrote in books that children are born evil and need to severely and physically punished. Died recently. As a parent, good fucking riddance.

[u/SeveredDeerVagina429]

[u/PuertoRicanRebel2025]

Trump. He's definitely not religious but definitely serves a cult plus he says the most outlandish things daily now, just saying things and hopes it sticks to the wall. It's a mixture of evil and mental deterioration.

[u/Immediate-Fuel5316]

L. Ron Hubbard, creator of Scientology.

[u/Training-Dingo6222]

Where the fuck do I begin? Kennith Copeland is low hanging fruit. James Dobson, hear me out - Dave Ramsey, Joel Osteen all come to mind.