Geoffrey Grider is an absolutely insane fundie maniac Baptist pastor and endtimes preacher affiliated with Now The End Begins Ministries in Saint Augustine. Indeed, Grider is “author and editor-in-chief” of the Now The End Begins website, which he describes as delivering “aggregate breaking news of the day from a biblical perspective” but which more neutral observers describe as “an extreme right wing Conspiracy website that rarely publishes factual information”. Its contents consist largely of hysterical nonsense based on whatever is cooked up in Grider’s own paranoid imagination, putative conversations with God or Jesus, and things he has picked up from other fake news sites, typically standard MAGA stuff and silly fake stories like “PROOF OF GEORGE SOROS NAZI PAST FINALLY COMES TO LIGHT WITH DISCOVERY OF FORGOTTEN INTERVIEW” (not a chance, and yes: the source is one of Roseanne Barr’s Twitter rants). One example that gained some traction on social media was his story “Joe Biden Says Bible Believing Christians Violate LGBTQ Rights by Simply Existing” based on nothing whatsoever Joe Biden has remotely said.
Though a firm Maga cultist, Grider has nevertheless voiced suspicions that Jared Kushner might be the Antichrist (he tries to emphasize that he is not actually saying that) based on an n-degrees-of-separation relationship to Soros and the fact that if you squint, he sort of resembles a fictional character from the Left Behind series (he is also Jewish, of course). Emanuel Macron is apparently also the antichrist, and Grider has spent quite a number of words establishing that case based on fables and endless genealogies (the Bible only matters when it supports what he already wants to believe) – Grider traces Macron’s heritage back several generations to establish that he is really a covert German Jew, which to Grider is rather slam-dunk.
Diagnosis: Absolutely amazingly idiotic nonsense, paranoia and feverish delusions. We don’t know what impact he has, but apparently enough people think he’s got something meaningful to say to prop him up with donations.
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