Frisco pastor’s ‘dangerous’ words, far-right views don’t reflect their city, conservative leaders say
Brandon Burden of KingdomLife urged congregants to keep their guns loaded and stock up on food and water before President Joe Biden’s inauguration.
The Frisco water tower looms over downtown at dusk.(LARA SOLT / Staff Photographer)
After a Frisco pastor made national headlines for his statements during a Sunday service just days after insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol, city leaders denounced his comments, and several residents expressed fears that Christian nationalism has infiltrated their community.
“We have an executive order not from Congress or D.C., but from the desk of the CEO of heaven, the boss of the planet,” Burden said. “He said from his desk in heaven, this is my will; Trump will be in for eight years.”
Editor s note: As Jesus himself would be, naturally.
God would see that traitors are arrested, Burden said, noting that President George Washington ordered traitors to the burgeoning republic “quartered and shot.”
Editor s note: But not nailed to crosses. That would be sacrilegious. Dead and butchered is good enough.
Burden also launched into a bizarre tangent about the difference between murder and self-defense. For instance, he discourages congregants from shooting people in their yard because “you will go to jail.”
“If they break down your door and come in your house, the castle doctrine protects you; you can shoot them in your house,” Burden said, inspirational church music serving as an incongruous backdrop. “I would not encourage you to shoot them in the lawn.