Redeemed Zoomer

Richard Ackerman.

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“”Q: If God is good, why can't He destroy evil? A: Well, He eventually will. Q: Why can't He do it now? A: Because He'd have to destroy you.

—Redeemed Zoomer on the problem of evil.

Richard Ackerman, better known online as Redeemed Zoomer, is an American YouTuber who makes videos about Christianity, sometimes while building a church in Minecraft. While some of his videos are genuinely informative, such as his videos on Christian denominations, a lot of his videos are about how mainline Protestant churches have been corrupted by theological liberalism and progressivism (read: allowing gay marriage and LGBTQ pastors). In response, he founded the "Operation Reconquista" movement to "retake" the mainline Protestant Churches from progressives to have access to their historical buildings and institutions. Through this movement, Ackerman sent his own "95 Theses" to his church, the PCUSA, which condemns the PCUSA for being "theologically liberal" and socially progressive.

As of 30 October 2024, his YouTube channel has 472K subscribers and 53.9 million views.

Background

Ackerman was born in New York and is ethnically Jewish, although he was never religiously Jewish. According to Ackerman, he was a former "secular leftist" when he was a teen before attending a music camp and converting to Christianity.

Views

Anti-LGBTQ

Although his YouTube channel is somewhat reasonable, a lot of his posts on Twitter consist of blatant bigotry against LGBTQ people.

In one tweet, Ackerman explicitly calls for LGBTQ people to be "cured," comparing homosexuality to "alcoholism," and has even endorsed the use of conversion therapy on LGBTQ people. He also made a tweet claiming that LGBTQ people have "a severe spiritual and mental illness," even referencing the infamous 40% statistic, erroneously conflating attempted suicide with actual suicide. In addition, he supports Uganda's anti-gay laws, which punishes LGBTQ people with life imprisonment and even allows the death penalty for "aggravated homosexuality." (One of Uganda's own courts later upheld the law but found sections of it "inconsistent with right to health, privacy and freedom of religion".)

America as a Christian nation

Ackerman believes that the United States was founded as a Christian nation simply because most of the country during 1776 were Protestants. In addition, Ackerman believes that the US should become a Christian theocracy, justifying it by claiming that Christian theocracies worked before the French Revolution.

Anti-abortion

Unsurprisingly, he fully opposes abortion and believes that any women who get an abortions should be treated as a murderer.

Opposition to Trump

Oddly enough, he considers himself as a Never-Trumper, not because of Trump's lack of moral character, but mainly because he views Trump as being "way too pro-gay and pro-abortion."

Antisemitism and race

On account of his ethnically Jewish ancestry, some antisemitic Christians accused Ackerman of trying to "subvert" Christianity. He downplayed his Jewish background in response, saying: "I have a Jewish name and nose, that's about it". In one thread, neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes congratulated Ackerman on being an ex-Zionist, but one of Fuentes's followers accused Ackerman of being a "race denier" (i.e. not a racialist). Ackerman replied: "no I'm not I just don't really care". He was also asked: "what's stopping you from being a groyper?", to which Ackerman said: "them constantly insulting my Jewish ethnicity even though I've repeatedly denounced Judaism".

Activities & Affiliations

Operation Reconquista

Ackerman created Operation Reconquista, an organization and movement aiming to promote theological and doctrinal conservatism in the Mainline Protestant churches. This led to the establishment of an organization for his own PC(USA), Presbyterians for the Kingdom, and Young Methodists for Tradition for the United Methodist Church, the Episcopal Fellowship for Renewal for the Episcopal Church and the Society of Orthodox Lutheran Advocates. With the organization of the Operation, these organizations, as well as the Puritans of the United Church of Christ and the American Baptists for Christ(for The American Baptist Churches USA) commemorated Reformation Day(October 31) of 2023 by sending 95 theses to each congregation of these churches they could find in the US, presumably from them keeping a global map.

Relative normalcy

See the main article on this topic: Stopped clock

Despite his extremely conservative beliefs, Ackerman still follows mainline Protestant doctrine rather than Christian fundamentalism, meaning that he can have somewhat reasonable religious opinions.

• He believes in evolution due to him believing that Christianity and science are compatible.
• He does not deny that climate change is a real problem.
• He does not believe in the Rapture.
• He condemns the prosperity gospel movement and "word of faith."

External links

• Redeemed Zoomer
• Operation Reconquista
• Presbyterians for the Kingdom
• YouTube channel