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What I Saw at This Weekend's Minnesota MAHA Fest Scared the Hell out of Me [View all]
https://racketmn.com/what-i-saw-at-this-weekends-minnesota-maha-fest-scared-the-hell-out-of-meOver 1,000 Christian opponents of modern medicine descended on Alexandria, MN, to testify that drugs, doctors, and Satan were making us all sick at the 7th annual Freedom Summit.
By Keith Harris
9:12 AM CDT on October 15, 2025
Now in its seventh year, this daylong event, subtitled “Empowering Voices for Faith and Health Freedom,” gathered an Evangelical crew now marching under the banner of “Make America Healthy Again” and energized by broad, disturbing successes at the federal level.
You could call them “anti-vaxxers” as shorthand, but vaccine resistance was just the tip of the needle here. All of modern medicine is “a demented, sick cult,” in the words of propaganda film producer Del Bigtree. Over the course of a 10-hour program with 15 speakers, we were taught how to “win” (a direct quote) against our doctors and exposed to health insights that “the elites” (another) are hiding from us. We were reminded, again and again, that god wants us to be healthy and happy but hubristic man keeps getting in the way with his intrusive science.
The day was a kaleidoscope of American superstition. There were shards of hippie naturalism, Christian Science perfectionism, airport-bookstore positive thinking, West Coast New Age bullshit, and creaky old Calvinism. Each speaker gave the tube a turn and allowed these elements to fall into a new nonsensical pattern that attendees viewed as enlightened truth.
Yet no matter what hokey byways these speakers travelled, they arrived at the same place, a stripped-down Christianity that hopped from one cherrypicked biblical maxim to the next in defense of its monopoly on the truth. God speaks to these people in a still, small voice, and he says, “They’re coming for your children.”
You could call them “anti-vaxxers” as shorthand, but vaccine resistance was just the tip of the needle here. All of modern medicine is “a demented, sick cult,” in the words of propaganda film producer Del Bigtree. Over the course of a 10-hour program with 15 speakers, we were taught how to “win” (a direct quote) against our doctors and exposed to health insights that “the elites” (another) are hiding from us. We were reminded, again and again, that god wants us to be healthy and happy but hubristic man keeps getting in the way with his intrusive science.
The day was a kaleidoscope of American superstition. There were shards of hippie naturalism, Christian Science perfectionism, airport-bookstore positive thinking, West Coast New Age bullshit, and creaky old Calvinism. Each speaker gave the tube a turn and allowed these elements to fall into a new nonsensical pattern that attendees viewed as enlightened truth.
Yet no matter what hokey byways these speakers travelled, they arrived at the same place, a stripped-down Christianity that hopped from one cherrypicked biblical maxim to the next in defense of its monopoly on the truth. God speaks to these people in a still, small voice, and he says, “They’re coming for your children.”
Quack.
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