Jef Rouner (one “f” and self-identifying as, “not cis, he/him”) wrote an article titled, Man Who Threatened Speaker Phelan Mired in Christian Conspiracism and/or Nephilim and Other Reasons Someone Wanted to Kill Dade Phelan for The Huston Press (“and/or” since it seems that sometime an article is posted but then the title is edited to the URL’s title differs).
This pertains to that, “Daniel Troy LeBlanc…was indicted for terrorist threats against Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan (R-Beaumont)” when he posted this, in part, on Facebook, “ONE SHOT… ONE KILL…2500M AWAY…0230… IN YOUR RIGHT TEMPLE… TAKING OUT THAT Al MUSKY GYM SOCK SMELLY CAT SOCK DARK HOLE RA MIND YOU HIDE WITHIN…Come at me… let’s get this ASS WHOOPIN over with Baphomet Cowardice, you just act as if like Victoria you convinced… SICKO.”
Apparently, his, “rants…have obvious ties to QAnon, the Men’s Rights/Incel community, flat earth conspiracy theories, anti-Catholic propaganda, and more. One of the more esoteric posts linked to a two hour ‘documentary’ about the Nephilim.”
That documentary, is by Trey Smith who’s Nephilology isn’t biblical.
Jef Rouner noted, “Nephilim are a race described in the Hebrew Bible that existed around the time of Noah. They are definitely minor characters, only being mentioned a handful of times” which his fair enough—yet, it’s more like half a handful: in two verse, actually (reliably in Gen 6:4 and unreliably in Num 13:33).
“they were tall” that’s subjective but still, that assertion comes from the unreliable verse which was a tall-tale by unreliable guys whom God rebuked.
“liked to mate with human women” well, perhaps: they were half-human but Jef is clearly confusing them with their Angel dads.
“Some translations render them as giants” but that doesn’t in the least bit even imply anything about height whatsoever: such isn’t the usage of that subjective term in some English Bibles.
“angels, or fallen angels” no, neither.
I’m unsure why Jef decided to focus in on Nephilim (except that they’re great click-bait) but he notes “Nephilim conspiracies have existed for decades, but they were supercharged after Ancient Aliens launched on the History Channel in 2009. Suddenly, there was a host of slickly produced nonsense based on misrepresented archeology and unscientific speculation that helped weld together many things into one vague conspiracy theory involving visitors from above. The internet took it from there.”
It’s to the point that I refer to modern Nephilology as lucrative un-biblical neo-theo sci-fi tall-tales.
Jef Rouner even touched upon the modern day hoaxed fraud brought about when the plagiarist Steve Quayle and, “L.A. Marzulli claimed he spoke to a man that had encountered Nephilim as part of U.S. military operations in Kandahar, Afghanistan.”
He also makes a good point about that, “The Nephilim are a malleable part of many conspiracy theories. They tie in easily with aliens, angels, or combinations of the two” and more with people like the aforementioned Marzulli coopting cryptozoology as well by asserting a correlation between Nephilim and Big Foot.
He gets around to pondering, “why does something like Nephilim work its way into the mind of someone like LeBlanc?” and replies, “I believe it’s because of the rise of Christian conspiracism as a mental defense mechanism.” Indeed, in my book Nephilim and Giants as per Pop-Researchers: A Comprehensive Consideration of the claims of I.D.E. Thomas, Chuck Missler, Dante Fortson, Derek Gilbert, Brian Godawa, Patrick Heron, Thomas Horn, Ken Johnson, L.A. Marzulli, Josh Peck, CK Quarterman, Steve Quayle, Rob Skiba, Gary Wayne, Jim Wilhelmsen, et al. I found myself having to write a very troubling chapter titled, “Nephil Kampf.”
That’s because pop-Nephilologists establish “ministries” based on such stuff and must continually make much ado about nothing so as to keep producing a product and much keep upping the ante and most go so far as to invent (or parrot) that Nephilim are here or are retuning and we will have to battle them. Yet, they now look like, guess what, regular people.
Ergo, the astonishingly dangerous delusion is that you can identify Nephilim by someone who looks just like a person and you will have to destroy them. This is plane old maliciously maniacal.
Jef then rants about, “an increasingly secular and fact checked world” such as that, “some aspects of Christianity buckle under the pressure” and something about, “Biblical literalism” and, “Young Earth Creationists,” etc., etc., etc.
There’s not much more of interests regarding Nephilology but just to leave off with some of his words about LeBlanc, for those interested, “he references…all the ways humanity will be punished if they fail to be obedient to God…he lost unsupervised contact with his children…blame for these things at a cabal of sinister forces, including Speaker Phelan for setting up a committee to study gun legislation…He invokes hidden tunnels and Satanic pedophile rings,” etc., etc., etc.
But this was not just about LeBlanc and just reporting the facts ma’am. No, Jef Rouner decided to insert a merely subjective assertion of a positive affirmation in declaring, in the guise of doing news reporting, “Nephilim aren’t real.”
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