If you have a facebook account and have logged into said account in the past few months, you have no doubt seen a video shared by one of your conspiracy theorist or christian friends/family that prominitanlty featured the gentlemen above. His name is Joshua Feurestein, and he is an internet evangelist. You may be asking yourself, “what exactly is an internet evangelist”, and the simple answer is: a low budget televangelist. There is no difference except this guy isnt preying on the christian television viewers for money, he instead is making videos using his iPhone (in portrait mode no less!) that are meant to make you see red.




His entire m.o. revolves around convincing you that christians are being persecuted, having their rights taken away, being legally forced to do things that go against the core values of Christianity (a pastor marrying a same sex couple, a baker being force to make a cake for a same sex couple), and other nonsensical things of that sort.



The problem with Joshua Feuerstein is that he is a bully, and he is dependent on his “followers” not taking the time to do any real research into the things he talks about in his videos. If you took the extra 3 minutes to do a google search on some of his “proof” that Christians are losing their rights (like the Pastor being forced to marry a same sex couple, or the bakery being fined JUST for refusing to make a same sex couple’s cake) you are quickly going to realize that he is omitting key facts in these news stories, and instead just using buzz words to anger his “followers”.




Let’s take one of his most recent, super popular videos and break it down:


This video is titled “RANT: Gay Man files LAWSUIT to forcibly remove homosexuality from BIBLE .. Pastor THREATENED with ARREST if he doesnt marry SAME SEX COUPLES”

1. The gay man that filed the lawsuit he is talking about? Yeah, it happened 7 YEARS AGO!


2. The pastor that is being threatned with arrest if he doesn’t marry a same sex couple? Yeah, this story is from 2014. Patheos dug into it:

What about the pastor threatened with arrest for not marrying a same-sex couple? That story’s from 2014. It involves a Christian couple who set up their own for-profit wedding chapel. It wasn’t a church by any means. They were no different from bakers who aren’t allowed to discriminate against customers regardless of their faith. The couple even made it clear at one point that they had no problem marrying people of non-Christian faiths and conducting civil ceremonies. When they were faced with marrying a gay couple, they altered their website to remove all that information. Shady stuff all around. And city officials said the couple was never threatened with jail.

So, as you can see, he wants you to feel outraged, but the things you end feeling outraged about, also aren’t true, or there are is way more to the story than he is letting on. He is purposely giving you half the story, but isn’t that the same thing as lying?


There is also the issue of the bullying, which he got caught doing and promptly had to remove because he filmed a phone conversation with a bakery that refused to make an Anti-Gay cake. In the video Feuerstein urged his viewers to call up the bakery to see for themselves. Which resulted in hundreds of phone calls, death threats, and negative reviews posted to their facebook page. Now, I am no expert on Christianity, but I thought the purpose was to be “Christlike”, and this seems the furthest thing from what Christ would do.



The other problem is that he just isn’t honest. In August of 2014 he setup a GoFundMe campaign to raise $20,000 for a Red Camera and all of the accessories. This from the now deleted GoFundMe campaign description:

“We have the opportunity to film so many incredible inspirational pieces but lack the professional equipment necessary to do so! We are asking that you help us present the gospel to MILLIONS and MILLIONS more people by helping us buy the necessary camera equipment!




If one of our videos has ever helped you in a time of need ... consider paying it forward to the millions more that need to hear this message”

He hit his goal, plus around $7000 extra, but I cant confirm that number as he recently deleted the campaign page. I was able to use the Wayback Machine to find the 2 updates, the last one being $20 away from the goal, which you can see below:


So here we are, almost a year later and all of his videos are still being filmed on his iPhone, in portrait mode:


When confronted about the camera by YouTube user Matthew Kovacs, he fell all over his words, and then said he bought 2 Canon 5D camera’s (Assuming 5D MkIII), which at most would cost around $3,500 at most. Here is the video of him being confronted:

So, he raised $27,000, didn’t buy the camera he was raising the money for, and instead bought 2 DSLR’s that, at this point, have not been used for any of his videos.




This guy needs to be stopped.

