Last Monday, I had my guest appearance on the Steve Deace Show, which drew a lot of reactions. It was my plan to talk about the appearance on the Thursday livestream, but major stories, along with my physical health, led to a Thursday video instead. So how exactly would I describe the appearance?
There is a saying, “Never meet your heroes.” This is a little hyperbolic to employ, as I’m not one for having heroes. I’ve seen a lot of Steve Deace, but I’ve never seen him treat a guest as antagonistically as he did me. There are some who say that Steve Deace believes he is trying to “save” me from associating with an unclean right-wing crowd. Interestingly, Deace did a lot of preparation, digging into my past political campaign. But the conversation devolved into a struggle session by Deace’s design.
After an initial productive conversation about the state of Evangelicalism and the church, Steve Deace proceeded to struggle session me with Michael Spangler’s tweets. Spangler is a hot topic in the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. He’s also a smaller account. Deace wanted me to denounce Spangler for his views on race, and I refused.
In 2025, to be offended by racism is soft behavior. Moreover, I have enough internet beef to start more. This was guilt by association, when I have a prolific catalog of writing, videos, and even tweets to drum up. I’m experienced enough to know a struggle session and to not participate in the denouncing games.
Then Steve Deace said that he went through my 2025 tweets and claimed that I retweeted Joshua Haywood and Corey Mahler. This was categorically untrue.
Another day, another struggle session. https://t.co/Dqb0hebUCL
— Evangelical Dark Web (@EvangelicalDW) February 2, 2025
The truth was that I called out Joel Berry for a struggle session, and Steve Deace pulled two of the four screenshots from Berry’s tweet and said that I retweeted them. He left out the Stephen Wolfe screenshots, which I can confidently say led to the post.
This is a lie that Steve Deace made against me to prejudice his audience against me. The irony is that the tweets he left in were scientifically true.
Eventually Steve Deace turns to Scripture and we talk the Good Samaritan parable where he insisted that the man left for dead was a Samaritan. He seemed confident that we had some sort of disagreement with the text otherwise.
Eventually, I perturbed Deace when I called out his use of “love your neighbor,” which was consistent with how Big Eva used the term to browbeat Evangelicals for decades. Steve Deace would not accuse me of anything, instead insisting that he was trying to understand how I think. If he were honest, he wouldn’t be digging up other people’s tweets.
Play-by-play analysis of tweets is the worst possible way to do interviews. I learned this when Ben Shapiro interviewed Gina Carano. Play-by-play analysis of other people’s tweets is even worse.
So the experience was disappointing and a missed opportunity for what could have been. I’m not going to say I was otherwise fantastic. I was caught off guard by Deace’s uses of other’s word a tactic I’ve never seen him pull in an interview. My familiarity perhaps made me unprepared. But I was asked to denouce smaller accounts for brownie points and I did not sell these people out. There is a lesson in this.
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What I thought was strange was that Deace started out saying that there was a long-standing Reformed tradition that had a different take on various (unspecified) matters and that Evangelicals needed to understand this. He never did go into those matters nor try to establish a link between you and that tradition. He seemed like he went off the track of what he originally intended to do, because you would not go along with him on what he apparently thought would be some preliminary matters.
What’s he talking about groups voting for him? What did he run for?
Black people are NOT my neighbor. Only White people are. The reason the Samaritan was the neighbor to the Jew is they’re the same race. The Jews being racist against Samaritans is like Brits being racist against Germans. They’re both White. Just as Jews and Samaritans were both Israelites.
And both Jews and Samaritans believed in the Pentateuch. They only disagreed on the later prophets. So it wasn’t like the Samaritan was a completely different religion. Samaritans were essentially a different denomination of Judaism.
So this old boomer is completely retarded. He’s clearly a Jew who hates Christ, pure and simple.
Now that was my inner inerrantist speaking. But in reality, the parable of the good Samaritan is only in Luke. And we know Marcion’s earlier version of Luke didn’t include it. So in reality, I believe it was added by the Judaizers who judaized Luke. The same ones who added to the parable about no man putting new wine in old wine skins lest the skins burst and both the wine and skins be lost, the judaizers added (what is no in Matthew and was not in Marcion’s Luke) “and no man having tasted the old wine (the Old Testament) says the new (the New Testament) is better.” Could any more Jewish of an interpolation be conceived? The story of the good Samaritan is a poison pill that Deace’s Jewish ancestors corrupted the text with in order to destroy the White race. But since your average Christian could never embrace this truth, stick to the explanation in my previous comment.
Someone like Deace cannot in good faith object even to my second explanation because he must love his higher critical scholar neighbor as himself!!!!!
Deace continues to disappoint me. He comes off as this geek with history knowledge, but you press him he sounds like a captured ideologue.
btw the person found was not likely a samaritan, he was a Jew. Both a Levitite and Jewish Rabbi or Preist left because they had ‘duties’ that surplanted it .
Deace to me comes off as the Pharises in Mark 7:
“6 He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:
This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me.
7 They worship me in vain,
teaching as doctrines human commands.[d]
8 Abandoning the command of God, you hold on to human tradition.”[e] 9 He also said to them, “You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up[f] your tradition! 10 For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; [g] and Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.[h] 11 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is corban’” (that is, an offering devoted to God), 12 “you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother. 13 You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.””
They act like they are doing service to God, while crushing the spirit of clear commands. That’s exactly what happened in the story of the Good Samaritan. The one the jews would view as lesser treated the traveller as a neighbor while the other did not.
I was disappointed in his behavior. I have been a Deace listener since his sports radio days and our life trajectories are eerily similar. Born months apart, came to faith months apart, both were suggested victims of abortion, and more. I think of him as my brother from another mother.
But the way he went off script from the original intent of this discussion was shameful. He won a fight that you didn’t want to have while he lost the respect of many. I am reconsidering my Blaze membership now. I started it for Crowder and kept it for Deace.
Steve lost me a while ago with his incessant need to defend Israel over everything, no matter what. I like Steve a lot, but it almost feels like he is coming to the table as a somewhat baby Christian with little training.