MAGA Turned Worship Into Warfare (with Rick Pidcock)
April 11, 2026
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Preorder Rick Pidcock's book "Weapons of Worship"
Pat Kahnke's books are available on Amazon:
"A Christian Case Against Donald Trump" (2024)
"MAGA SeductionResisting the Debasement of the Christian Conscience" (2020)
At Charlie Kirk's memorial, they didn't just grieve — they worshipped. And what happened in that room reveals something disturbing about how MAGA Christianity weaponized worship music to train a movement.
Author Rick Pidcock (Weapons of Worship) joins me to expose the psychological and theological mechanics behind worship-as-warfare — from Sean Feucht's rallies to a Seattle service where a worship leader told the congregation to throw rocks at LGBTQ+ people. This isn't fringe. It's a pattern. And it's been building for years inside evangelical spaces.
We cover:
— How Charlie Kirk's memorial became a MAGA spiritual warfare event
— The neuroscience of worship and why it bypasses critical thinking
— Sean Feucht and the weaponization of Christian nationalism through song
— The Seattle worship service where congregants mimed throwing rocks at gay people
— How worship music became the soundtrack of authoritarian politics
— What a theology of "spiritual enemies" does to real human beings
Rick Pidcock is a theologian, journalist, and author whose work sits at the intersection of evangelical culture, Christian nationalism, and political radicalization.
Pat Kahnke is a former evangelical pastor and church planter, and the author of A Christian Case Against Donald Trump (2024) and MAGA Seduction (2020).
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