VeggieTales creator and Holy Post podcast host Phil Vischer has gotten beat up on social media over the last few days, and with good reason. The shots have been coming after he criticized a conservative TV network for not featuring LBGTQ characters in films, compared christians who oppose legal same-sex marriage to ‘confederate theologians’, and refuses to publicly condemn same-sex marriage, all the while doing so in a smarmy voice that would make even Andy Stanley jealous.
This is on top of knocking creationists as a bunch of dummies, crediting his white privilege for the success of his show, claiming he didn’t know there were such things black Christians until he was an adult, thumbing his nose at “Cracker Barrel Christians,” getting upset at Christians for opposing LGBTQ, and coming out as pro-choice.
After pointing out how Vischer’s podcast host Skye Jethani has been mainstreaming LBGTQ+-affirming impastorette Samantha Beach Kiley, and after several posts featuring some of the vexatious vegetable creator’s heterodox hot takes, Vischer played the race card against the venerable @WokePreacherTV, who functions as Christian culture’s canary in the coal mine.
He also played the Turn card.
And finally the River.
The charge is groundless, of course. As a long-time follower, the race of the person being criticized will ebb and flow, depending on the focus and subject matter. Sometimes the speakers will skew white for a while, and other times black. Recently they’ve been predominantly black pastors, with much of the discussion centering around Christian nationalism and churches hosting and praising pro-LBGTQ, pro-choice ‘pastor,’ and Senator Raphael Warnock.
But to say he has a “special fondness” for pointing out the foibles of “black pastors”?
He’ll never win the pot with that hand.
