After my analysis of the manifesto and his Bluesky posts, I now also went through the more than 4,000 tweets on X (with same methodology) to see whether this corpus would confirm, nuance, or contradict my hitherto findings. Here is what I found: I. Summary of most important findings After my analysis of the manifesto and the Bluesky posts (which you can read here), I went back through the 4,000-plus tweets on X — Allen’s first online political phase, ended by his migratio

(Update from May 3, 2026: In the meantime, I have analyzed also the older 4,000+ posts on X: here.) I. Summary of most important findings President Trump has called Cole Allen “anti-Christian,” suggesting a Christian past followed by a turn away from the faith, and characterizing the attempted assassination as committed out of hatred toward Christianity Others – such as journalist Ken Klippenstein – have pointed out that biblical references in the manifesto point towards a Ch

For a long time, research on early Christianity was shaped by the assumption that the Roman Empire resembled a modern state based on the rule of law in many respects and that the first followers of the Jewish Messiah Jesus had no reason to fear persecution. Correspondingly high, it is claimed, was the opinion of the Roman Empire and its emperor held by, for example, the Apostle Paul when in Romans 13 he seems to call for submission to state authority and dutiful tax payment w

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