Note how this fool uses the tired old “synagogue of satan” phrase from Revelation (2:9 & 3:9).
It ought to be obvious that one cannot build a dogma out of just one unique Bible passage.
In these two verses, part of the letters to the seven congregations, translators could have chosen less-charged words such as “congregation” or “assembly.”
That said, just because two first-century Turkish* congregations (Smyrna and Philadelphia) had some issue with some assembly of Satan or other, that certainly does not mean that ALL such congregations are affiliated with the enemy. One has to be a special kind of sophomore to jump to that conclusion.
But this clown really thinks he’s right, and he believes he is honorable for being willing to pay the legal price for his hate.
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* “Asia Minor” in Biblical terms; located in present-day Turkey.
For Further Reading: "To use a phrase that “this is one of the most misunderstood verses in the entire Bible” is to use a cliché, but in this case the claim is actually true...." https://israelbiblicalstudies.com/blog/category/jewish-studies/what-is-the-synagogue-of-satan-rev-39-13/ "...For the author of Revelation, however, to pay the tax would be an act of apostasy, as the tax paid for the rebuilding of the Capitoline temple." https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/014610799902800405 Sources: https://www.timesofisrael.com/mississippi-suspect-laughed-as-he-confessed-to-torching-synagogue-of-satan-fbi/ https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-883166 Mississippi suspect laughed as he confessed to torching ‘Synagogue of Satan’ — FBI By LUKE TRESS and ZEV STUB Stephen Spencer Pittman burned Jackson congregation due to the ‘building’s Jewish ties,’ criminal complaint says This photo provided by Beth Israel Congregation shows damage sustained during a fire, January 10, 2026, at Beth Israel Congregation, in Jackson, Mississippi. (Beth Israel Congregation via AP) A ‘deliberate attack on Jews’: Community condemns arson attack on Mississippi synagogue By ZEV STUB Fire damage to the Beth Israel Congregation, a synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi, January 10, 2026. (Beth Israel Congregation) Mississippi’s largest synagogue severely damaged in suspected arson attack By ZEV STUB US President Donald Trump speaks during a meeting with oil executives in the East Room of the White House, Jan. 9, 2026, in Washington. (AP/Evan Vucci) ‘We don’t need them. We don’t like them’: Trump says MAGA has no room for antisemites By JACOB MAGID
