Eric Metaxas: “Biden is our Hitler”

Eric Metaxas gained fame in 2009 when he published a deeply flawed biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that was universally panned by Bonhoeffer scholars. In 2016, he endorsed Donald Trump for president in a much-discussed Wall Street Journal op-ed.

Here are some more of his “greatest” hits. They are listed here in chronological order to reveal his descent into the MAGA-world:

• In June 2016, he published a history of the American founding riddled with historical errors.
• In December 2019, he said that efforts to impeach Donald Trump for a second time were “demonic”
• In August 2020, he claimed Jesus was white.
• In August 2020, he sucker-punched an anti-Trump protestor outside the Republican National Convention in Washington D.C.
• In October 2020, he wrote about Trump: “Is there anyone unto him.”
• In November 2020, Metaxas compared his fight against “voter fraud” in the 2020 presidential election to the courage one needs to stop a heavily-armed man who is trying to murder his child.
• In December 2020, the late Michael Gerson, playing on evangelical conversion language, said that Metaxas had “publicly committed his life to Donald Trump”
• In December 2020, he said that “God acts in history” and has acted on the side of Donald Trump.
• In December 2020, he wondered why so many people were talking about COVID when “election fraud” was the new September 11th.
• In January 2021, he blamed the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol on Antifa and compared liberals to Nazi’s who used the Reichstag fire to gain political power.
• In June 2021, he said that those who will not defend the January 6th insurrectionists are “dead to him.”
• In July 2021, he told his followers to “be a rebel” and refuse to get the COVID-19 vaccine. He also told his followers to “get a gun” to stop the government from gathering vaccination data.
• In August 2021 (and on many other occasions), he defended the views of conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell.
• In October 2021, he asked his followers to vote for him for Culture Warrior of the Year.
• In February 2022, he used his radio show to push pro-Putin propaganda.
• In March 2022, he and Charlie Kirk floated the idea that the coronavirus came from “Ukrainian biolabs.”
• In September 2022, he said that “the evangelical church is enabling Hitler”
• In October 2022, he called evangelical megachurch pastors Rick Warren, Tim Keller, and Andy Stanley “Hitler’s favorite kind of pastors.”
• In November 2022, he said that Christian Right Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano would win the election “by divine appointment” and will be a “miracle.” (Mastriano lost in a landslide.)
• In September 2023, he said that Mike Pence was not a good Christian because he chose to certify the 2020 presidential election.
• In March 2024, he described Joe Biden’s State of the Union address as “satanic” and described the president as a “puppet of the devil”
• In February 2024, he suggested that Joe Biden was a murderer.
• In May 2024, he compared Donald Trump’s conviction in the New York hush money case to a “lynching.”

I think you get the idea.

Here is Metaxas’s latest:

So we can now finally clearly see that Biden is our Hitler. In 1933-34. See my Bonhoeffer book for details. The parallels are staggering and increasingly obvious. Pray for this nation. PRAY. https://t.co/qsbq3aHVp5

— Eric Metaxas (@ericmetaxas) June 7, 2024