FALSE PROPHET
Al Mohler
Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
The ninth president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, R. Albert Mohler, Jr., is one of the most prominent and longest-serving leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention. He’s expanded his reach through podcasts such as The Briefing, which he uses to spread partisan pro-Trump rhetoric and a Christian nationalist perspective.
In the episode of the Briefing following the 2024 attempted assassination of fellow False Prophet Donald Trump, Mohler underscored the Christian nationalist talking point that God saved Trump for a divine purpose, saying: “it was God and God alone, for God alone is the sovereign ruler of the cosmos.” Ignoring the hate-filled violent rhetoric of his colleagues and allies, Mohler also tried to point fingers at President Biden for circumstances that led to the assassination attempt.
Mohler has repeatedly defended Trump. Following the historic conviction of Trump in which he was found guilty on 34 charges, Mohler falsely argued that the case against the ex-president was a political stunt before dismissing the seriousness of the situation by dabbling in transphobia: “say what you will about Donald Trump and his sex scandals, he doesn’t confuse male and female.”
In 2022 speech at a Pray Vote Stand Summit (an event organized by fellow False Prophet Tony Perkins’ Family Research Council), Mohler insinuated that Christians must vote for Republicans to be faithful, saying: “We have a responsibility to make certain that Christians understand the stewardship of the vote, which means the discipleship of the vote, which means the urgency of the vote, the treasure of the vote. And they need to understand that insofar as they do not vote, or they vote wrongly, they are unfaithful because the vote is a powerful stewardship.”
Mohler also has a deeply anti-Catholic track record. Most notably, in a 2000 appearance on Larry King Live, he said “As an evangelical, I believe the Roman church is a false church and it teaches a false gospel. I believe the pope himself holds a false and unbiblical office.”
Like many of his ilk, Mohler espouses hate-filled and harmful anti-LGBTQ rhetoric. He’s pushed for so-called traditional gender roles that conservatives seek to enforce on everyone around them and discussed the harm caused by therapy. Mohler has called for women who obtain abortions to be jailed, calling it “criminally insane” to not prosecute them. He was also behind the Southern Baptist Convention resolution opposing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) treatments.