Dutch Sheets is a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation, a brand of charismatic evangelicalism that powers the Christian MAGA movement. Sheets leads pro-Trump prayer tours around the country, travels around with Lance Wallnau, Charlie Kirk and others where he gets followers to recite a Seven Mountain Dominionist “Watchman’s Decree“; provides radio host Eric Metaxas with all the latest direct words from God; prayed with Donald Trump at the White House; and inspires the MAGA faithful.
Here is Sheets on the stage with Eric Metaxas as Metaxas promotes his books with Mike “MyPillow Guy” Mike Lindell. Sheets talks about wrapping himself in a flag and crying for the nation. And then God spoke directly to him:
Sheets has about 50,000 Twitter followers. Here is what he tweeted last week:
God must not have been speaking directly to Sheets when he posted this because, according to Monticello, Jefferson never said this.
But this did not stop Sheets’s followers from indulging in the unsubstantiated quote:
Yes, the base laps this up and also does the same… Here’s a post shared from a facebook friend, supposedly quoting George Washington… June 8 1783 George Washington’s letter to the 13 new States.
“Without a humble imitation of Jesus Christ, we can never hope to be a happy nation.”
It took me 5min googling GW’s letter and of course he didn’t say this… not even close. But the poster must have picked it up from someone like Wallnau et al and they just believe whatever they say… without actually checking it. (But even without looking it up… the wording sounds awfully modern… evangelical sounding)
The lengths these people go to lie in order to somehow shape the Founders into their crusading religious right image… And they don’t seem to care what this kind of thing does to their supposed witness for christianity…
Indeed. You don’t need to have Ph.D in history to debunk this bad history.