Sonny
Hernandez is a fundie associated with Reforming America Ministries and an Air
Force Reserve chaplain. Hernandez is no fan of religious freedom, and has
declared that “Christian service members who
openly profess and support the rights of Muslims, Buddhists, and all other
anti-Christian worldviews to practice their religions – because the language in
the Constitution permits – are grossly in error, and deceived;” the
comments were targeted at Air Force service members (”Counterfeit
Christians”) who might in their missions and work errouneously “put the
Constitution – particularly the establishment clause of the First Amendment –
above a Christian God”. When his comments created some controversy,
Hernandez claimed to be misunderstood, but was not very clear about what
his critics had misunderstood or how a correct interpretation would diverge
from the one his critics attributed to him. Paul Hair attempted to portray Hernandez as a victim of Christian
persecution and steadfastly failed to see the irony.
Otherwise,
Hernandez appears to be a typical fundie with a typical fundie’s view of e.g.
reproductive rights, and keeps warning those who disagree with him not
only of Hell and “everlasting conscious torment” but of the
ever-imminent “great storm that is coming”. He has also written at least
one book, The Atheist Fairy Tale, which purports to refute all sorts of
ideas and features Hernandez associates with atheism (“a fictitious, inane,
and blasphemous religion that denies the existence of God”), such as the
theory of evolution (“pond scum that developed itself into a
self-replicating cell”)
Diagnosis:
Stock fundie. The US is brimful of them, of course, and Hernandez doesn’t seem
to be among the ones with the largest impact area. No denying his level of
angry delusion, though.
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