John Pavlovitz, the former youth pastor at megachurch Good Shepherd United Methodist Church in North Carolina who was fired for his “provocative” posts, recently blasted supporters of President Trump as not “good people.” Writing for his Substack, “The Beautiful Mess,” Pavlovitz entitled the article “No, Good People Don’t Still Support Him” with an ominous photo of the current president. “I often hear people say, ‘He or she supports him but is a really good person,’” wrote Pavlovitz. “I consider that an oxymoron. I believe aligning with him is fundamentally antithetical to anything good.”

Pavlovitz then listed out a series of things that “good people” do not do. “Good people don’t indiscriminately round up human beings, separate them from their families, and throw them into stifling dog kennels or ship them to foreign countries without due process,” he wrote. He added that good people don’t fire certain public servants, physicians and scientists, don’t erase protections for certain minority groups or clean air, or platform Nazis and white supremacists, amongst a bevvy of things that Pavlovitz appears to imply President Trump and his supporters do. “But this President is not a good human being, and there’s simply no way around this truth,” Pavlovitz concluded. “Objectively speaking, he is the very worst humanity has produced, a moral bottom-feeder without scruples or conscience or decency. Outside of those indoctrinated into his dwindling, sycophantic death cult, the entire world is in agreement on this.”

This is not the first time Pavlovitz has attacked Trump or his supporters. In 2017, he wrote for his blog “Stuff that Needs to be Said” that “It’s time we stopped calling Donald Trump a Christian.” And while he lost his job in evangelical circles, he has become a darling of progressive churches, with his support for LGBTQ rights and being a self-proclaimed “radical woke leftist.” He has also accused the 2024 election results as being falsified. His critics have accused him of “jumping the shark.” “Besides insisting he’s “not a conspiracy theorist” (which is what a conspiracy theorist tends to say before launching into a conspiracy theory), Pavlovitz’s “argument” boils down to a gut feeling that Trump couldn’t have won all seven swing states. Instead of statistics, all we apparently need is vibes,” noted one of his critics.

Oddly enough, the Bible would be in agreement with Pavlovitz. In Mark 10:17, a man approaches Jesus and calls him “good teacher.” Jesus, however, responds that there are no good people, Pavlovitz and the President’s staunchest critics included. “Why callest thou me good?” he asks. “There is none good but one, that is, God.”