Name: Why Have Christian Leaders Been Silent on Gaza?
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Have Christian Leaders Been Silent on Gaza?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-10. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Why Have Christian Leaders Been Silent on Gaza?' from Theo Von Clips on Comedy Buff. Published 2025-12-10. Transcript available.

Do you think that enough, like, pastors and preachers didn't speak up during
the Gaza conflict?
That almost blew my mind.
Does that make sense to you?
It's the most heartbreaking part.
I mean, from my perspective, as an American Christian, Protestant American
Christian, it's like, yeah, of course, I think what Israel is doing is
disgusting.
I mean, it's indefensible.
But my real, like, rage, like, what I'm actually upset about, if you're at
dinner at my house, I never talk about the – I never rage about these
Israelis or the Jews at my house.
I just don't feel it.
My rage, my actual personal rage, is directed toward my people.
It's Protestant, Christian, evangelical pastors who have made deals with the
Israeli government or have theology so deranged that they think their Christian
faith requires them to support the murder of children, including Christian
children.
And I know some of them, and they believe that.
And that, to me, is very hard to forgive.
Like, I need to be a better person.
I need to keep them in my prayers because I really feel hostility toward those
people because they are the betrayers.
Israel, in the end, is acting in its own interest or what it thinks is its own
interest.
Those people?
What's their excuse?
And they're going out there and giving sermons about Candace Owens on Sunday?
She's not in the New Testament.
Okay?
Are they really doing that?
Big time.
And that is not—whatever you think of Candace Owens.
Like, I love Candace Owens, but maybe you hate Candace Owens.
We can all agree that your opinion on Candace Owens has no bearing on the
future of your soul.
Okay?
That's not Christianity.
It's nothing with Candace Owens.
So, like, if you are giving sermons against Candace Owens, then you are betraying
your people.
Okay?
And because you're misrepresenting your faith, Christianity, and those people.
I clearly need to calm down about them because they're truly the villains in
the story.
That's my opinion.
Of course, because you're always mad at the people you know best and, like,
Israel, whatever.
Go do your crazy Israeli things.
But American evangelical leaders defending Netanyahu?
And you know how many Christians have been killed in this?
That Israel has murdered?
What do Christians have to do with it?
Are you telling me they're Islamists, too, now?
Is that true?
Oh, it's totally true.
And one of the reasons they hate me is because I keep pointing it out.
How do you know that's true, Tucker?
Because they've blown up two churches in Gaza and killed people in the churches?
What do the churches have to do with this?
You're telling me that this is some existential battle between Islam and
civilization.
That's not true, by the way, but let's say it was true.
Then why are you blowing up churches?
Oh, it was an accident.
Oh, really?
You have the technology to put bombs in people's pagers, but you accidentally
blew up two churches?
It was not an accident.
They did it on purpose.
They've killed a lot of Christians on purpose.
And I'm probably the only person in American media to point that out because I'm
a Christian,
so I get to say that if I want.
Shut up, Nazi!
Where are the Christian leaders in this?
Yeah.
So now you've pissed me off.
I'm sorry, man.
I didn't know.
Whenever we're talking about anti-Semitism or the Nazis or Israel or whatever,
it's so fake to me that I don't get upset.
This is real to me.
Oh, the Church of St. Porphyrios.
St. Porphyrios.
Yeah, it's a famous church.
The Greek Orthodox Church, one of the oldest in the world, was hit by an
Israeli airstrike on October 19, 2023.
The strike collapsed.
An adjacent church-affiliated building where around 400 to 500 people displaced
were sheltering, killing 18 people.
The Holy Family Church is the only Catholic church in Gaza Strip.
This church has been a central shelter for Gaza's Christian community.
In December 2023, two women were reportedly killed by a sniper while leaving
the church.
In July 2025, the church was struck by an Israeli tank-fire killing, injuring
10, including the Paris priest's father, Gabriel Romanelli.
Well, why hasn't the pope spoken up about it either, I wonder?
Has he spoken about it?
What did the pope say about it?
You know, I don't keep track.
I'm not Catholic.
But I was going to church here in town, and I was just shocked that people
weren't speaking about it.
And that's moments where you start to feel like, am I crazy?
No, no.
In the evangelical world, and not all of this, this is a very broad brush.
I know a million, I had dinner next to one last night.
He was just a wonderful person, and there are lots of tons of great evangelicals,
but their leadership in general has not only refused to condemn it, they've
defended it.
And at that point, it's like, this is the great deception you read about in the
New Testament.
If this isn't a great deception, Jesus' message is not to kill children, okay?
And if you're telling me that it is, I don't need a theology degree to say, you
are a false prophet, and you're going to have to pay for what—I mean, you are,
like, taking your soul into your own hands when you say shit like that.
That is so the opposite of the message.
This is not a religion of conquest and violence.
It's the opposite.
Period.
How can you read it and tell me otherwise?
But why—
Oh, well, in Esther it said—
Okay.
But why are they doing that?
Do they—but—because this Israel is not the Israel from the Bible, right?
This is a—
I've tried to have this conversation.
Okay, sorry.
If it is, tell me how.
Yeah, it doesn't feel like it.
Like, what are you even talking about?
And I'm not a theologian.
I'm a freaking Episcopalian.
Like, I admit I know nothing, but I do read the Bible every day, so I just don't
see what you're talking about.
So you tell me what you're talking about.
This is the Israel we read about.
This is the inheritance of Abraham.
No way.
How?
How?
Is it genetically the same?
Is it—are the people who live there now related to the people we read about
in the Old Testament?
If they are, we have DNA tests.
Tell me how that works.
Oh, those are banned.
Okay.
So then you're telling me it's the same religion?
How is it the same religion?
There's no temple.
Like, what are you even talking about?
By the way, maybe there's a good answer that I just don't know—I don't
understand.
But they literally never even try to answer the question.
It's shut up Nazi, including from Christian ministers, calling me a Nazi.
Really?
Because I asked, oh, big time.
And again, not to make it about me, but I just want to be honest about it.
That upsets me.
Whereas, you know, Netanyahu also called me a Nazi.
It's like, you're just some dumb politician.
He called you a Nazi directly?
Absolutely.
That's crazy.
Of course.
Yeah, my tax dollars are paying his salary.
Why is he watching podcasts?
Oh, he's—oh, he's—yeah, I can't even tell you.
But yes, of course.
But it's to Christian pastors.
When you ask a simple question, you're telling me we have a duty to support,
quote, Israel,
Israel because a verse in Genesis tells you that.
Okay, fine.
That's totally fine.
What does that mean?
What is the Israel you're talking about?
Shut up, Nazi.
It's like, you're a Christian pastor, and I'm a Christian—I'm a faithful—imperfect
Christian.
The pastors were saying that.
Are there specific pastors?
Dr. Mike Evans, Heritage Center?
No, no.
Listen, right now we have a movement within the MAGA movement that is anti-Israel.
It's serious because it's led by Tucker Carlson, who was very close to vice
president.
It's coming out and saying, worse things presently the Nazi party said.
I'm saying worse things that the Nazi party said.
I'm totally anti-Nazi.
I'm totally anti-hate.
And above all, I'm anti-blood guilt and collective punishment, which is what
was bad about the
Nazis.
Let's remember.
And this guy is a Christian minister, or supposedly, or something.
So it's this kind of thing that actually does get under my skin.
That's my problem.
I should just shrug it off, but I have a lot of trouble shrugging it off
because it's
such a distortion of my religious faith that I have trouble letting it go.
I'm just being honest.
Well, I think it's brave to be able to speak up.
Sometimes if you're right or wrong, it's brave to try.
It's our obligation to try.
I was quiet for 30 years.
I shouldn't have been.
I shouldn't have been.
I didn't want to fight, but I shouldn't have been.
And people say, well, you get information wrong.
It's like, but if information is given out that's wrong, then how do you expect
someone
to know accurate information?
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