Jason and David Benham, the two brothers whose HGTV show was canceled before it began due to their Christian beliefs, wrote an article at the end of May that took issue with Newsweek’s insinuations that Christians in the US military were a “national security threat”. (That article was previously discussed here.)

The Benhams take an interesting perspective, essentially saying Michael “Mikey” Weinstein is spewing propaganda — and when done long enough and loud enough, people start to believe it:

When it’s left unchecked, propaganda sets the stage for radicals to “create problems” that don’t truly exist in order to target and vilify groups of people so they can advance an agenda…

If someone reads this and doesn’t know the true nature of Christianity or our Christian heritage as a nation, they might think Christians truly are “bullies” forcing their faith like spiritual jihad on our Armed Forces.

That much is true. There are uninformed people today who think Christians are trying to take over the world — by way of the US military — so they can institute a theocracy and new Holocaust.

And they believe it because Mikey Weinstein says so.

When people with actual personal experience disagree, these blind acolytes of Weinstein claim those people are either ignorant or secretly part of the coup. There are even people who were in the military and never experienced the rampant illegal activity Weinstein claims to fight who just assume “things have changed” — they don’t stop to think Mikey Weinstein might just be lying.

If there is one thing at which Weinstein has been adept these past few years, it has generally been public relations — put another way, propaganda. While he has built up a cabal of disciples, it is notable that the primary purpose of those followers has been to finance his annual salary, as Weinstein has done little more than talk a big talk these past few years.

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