There a number of race-baiting kinists, racial realists, and antisemites whose entire schtick consists in sowing error and division online among Christians. They live off of the error and controversy that they themselves manufacture.
Do they have influence among a small section of the right? Yes. Must they be opposed whenever their teaching shows up in a church? Yes. Must pastors lead the way to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict? Absolutely yes, yes, yes.
But I think we need to be realistic about the best way to engage the bad actors mentioned above. Arguing with them online is exactly what they want. They are conflict entrepreneurs. They grow their platform and influence through public conflict on platforms such as X (formerly Twitter). The more their names are mentioned, the more their platforms grow. The higher the profile of the person who mentions them, the more their platforms grow. Some of them have learned how to make a lot of money from it.
Perhaps you’ve heard the old saying, “If you roll around with a pig in the mud, you’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.” Likewise, if you engage in an argument with a fool online, you’ll both waste time on fruitless controversy, but the fool will enjoy it. Why? Because controversy grows their platform. Their main audience is an online army of anonymous malcontents, and the fool gets access to even more malcontents through controversy.
So I suggest it may be time for wise Christians simply to start blocking those voices and ignore them. If you see their content, don’t engage it. If you can, block them. At the very least, mute them. A fire goes out without fuel, so don’t give their fire of foolishness anything to burn. Starve it into oblivion. “For lack of wood the fire goes out, And where there is no whisperer, contention quiets down” (Prov. 26:20).
These people are fools and knaves. Pray for them (Matt. 5:44), but also mark and avoid them (Rom. 16:17-18). Perhaps the best way to do that on a platform like X is to block, mute, and unfollow. It would be an immense public service to the world if a critical mass of us would do just that.
I highly recommend reading Mary Jackson’s article for WORLD magazine titled “Old Prejudice: What is driving the rise of anti-Semitism among young Christian men?”
Pastors are warning about a rise in anti-Semitism among young Christian men, influenced by conspiracy theories that cast Jews as villains and recast hatred as theology.@mbjackson77 explores how anti-Semitism has infiltrated the hearts of Christian men:https://t.co/11E5YXjPBt
— WORLD (@WNGdotorg) December 16, 2025
