Together, the Lages encourage their followers to harbor an intolerance of non-Christian religions, saying that “If you teach a different gospel than Jesus taught. You should be accursed.”
So much for compassion.
Patricia Lage also teaches her followers, her “sheep”, to ignore any information that disagrees with their religion. “My sheep will hear My voice and not the voice of another.”
Patricia Lage makes big promises to her sheep. Among those promises is the claim that, if they follow her, and pay her money in a “love offering”, you can learn to raise the dead back to life.
In August of 2024, Patricia Lage will teach a three-day class at Christ Central Ministries in Colombia, South Carolina. The class promises people who pay Lage a “love offering” that they will gain the skills of a Divine Healing Technician, capable of healing people’s grave medical diseases, and even bringing people back from the dead, by calling on the magical powers of Jesus.
Patricia and David Lage are devotees of John G. Lake Ministries, an operation run out of Texas that makes money by selling books, videos, and classes that it claims will enable people to heal sick people and resurrect dead people using Christian magic spells. It’s a kind of pyramid scheme for religious hucksters, in which no one gains any real skills, but people are shown how to make money by convincing other people that faith healing is taking place.
Among other members of Donald Trump’s Iowa Faith Leader Coalition who are associated with the John G. Lake Ministries Divine Healing Technician scheme are Dick Green, who claims that he can cure Down syndrome with Christian magic, and Lila Shutt, who rocks back and forth and shouts at people at the Iowa State Fair in order to heal them from the sore legs they got from walking around having deep-fried foods all day.
Patricia Lage is, along with her husband David, The founder of Holy Spirit Led Ministries in Spring Hill, Iowa.
Patricia Lage is an unapologetic Christian Nationalist, declaring that, “This was started as a Christian nation, and it still is.”
Patricia Lage’s understanding of American history is deeply flawed. Actually, the United States was founded as a secular country. Christianity is not mentioned in the United States Constitution. Furthermore, the Constitution prohibits any establishment of any official national religion.
Patricia and Dave Lage are unabashedly using their tax-exempt religious organization to contribute to the partisan presidential campaign of Donald Trump, using the name of Holy Spirit Led Ministries to do so. For example, Patricia Lage announced on the Holy Spirit Led Ministries Facebook page that she is going to be a caucus captain for Trump in the January 15 presidential caucuses.
“President Donald Trump in Ankeny Iowa. I got within inches of him yesterday. We are going to be caucus captains for Trump and looking forward to January 15…”
On June 3, 2024, Holy Spirit Led Ministries told its followers, “God does pick people and it is Trump,” and forwarded a video declaring that Donald Trump is “God’s anointed”.
For Holy Spirit Led Ministries to use its non-profit tax-exempt status to make contributions to a partisan political campaign is a violation of the Johnson Amendment. The Lages would be free to campaign for any political candidate, if only they didn’t claim tax-exempt status at the same time. To do both is to ask American taxpayers to subsidize the Trump campaign, and it’s against federal law.
Patricia and Dave Lage teach their followers that they have the magical power to control the weather. They don’t mean this as a metaphor, but claim that they can call upon the power of Jesus to weaken approaching thunderstorms.
On June 5, 2024, Peter Foster, who is one of the Lages’ followers, announced that he had single-handedly caused a thunderstorm to dissipate. Foster reported:
“I learned through Dave/Patty and our church several years ago that because of our authority in Jesus we can speak to the weather in HIS Name and it will obey us. This morning I woke up to the sound of the severe weather sirens going off, which concerned me. I looked on the radar and found that a severe storm was 2-3 miles from our neighborhood. Immediately I told it ‘In the Name of Jesus Peace storm! In the Name of Jesus I command you to weaken storm!’… Not only did the storm weaken, we didn't get any wind and barely any rain at our house!”
After hearing about Foster’s claim, the Lages wrote to encourage their followers to stop more storms. “Let’s all speak to the storm and tell it to diminish and dissipate in Jesus name! No more damage to homes or people. Take authority over the weather like Jesus did. The Bible says we can do the same as Jesus and Greater we just believe and see it happen.”
Thunderstorms often arise and dissipate suddenly. There has never been any concrete evidence that Christians begging Jesus to stop thunderstorms is an effective means of preventing storm damage.
But wait, there’s more! Not only does Patricia Lage claim to be able to teach people how to magically command the weather, to cure medical conditions, and reanimate dead people, but she also promises that she can show people how to cast out demons.
Of course, no one has ever actually proven that demons exist. So, how much of a skill is it to be able to banish things that aren’t real?
Patricia Lage and the Holy Spirit Led Ministries are also active on Facebook, and posting judgmental themes about how non-Christians deserve to be cursed.
“Paul never said we should respect other beliefs… let them be accursed.”
Is it okay to curse people, just because the Bible says it’s so?
Lest you think that Patricia Lage’s Holy Spirit Led Ministries is all sunshine and roses, she has a warning for you: You’re probably a witch.
According to Patricia Lage, if you get food from a Chinese restaurant, and you eat the fortune cookie, you are involved in witchcraft.
Catholics are also witches, according to Lage, because they use rosary beads. Hindus are witches too, if they practice kundalini yoga.
Also, you’re a witch if you engage in superstition.
Hm. Wait a minute. Superstition?
Patricia and David Lage say that Democrats are demons, that they have magical powers that enable them to control the weather, and that they have the supernatural power to bring people back from the dead. Also, they claim that there are witches out there doing evil with dream catchers, Halloween, and “fengshai”.
These beliefs clearly makes David and Patricia Lage superstitious. So, by her own standard, Patricia Lage is a witch.
It’s proven: Patricia Lane’s Christian magic doesn’t work. It turns out that you can’t deal with serious infectious diseases simply by shouting at them to stop “in Jesus name”.
It is ridiculous that any Americans would ever believe in the faith healing magic Patricia and David Lage sell to their followers. The spread of this belief is not a laughing matter, though.
Donald Trump’s presidential campaign has done more than accepting the endorsements of the faith healer hucksters David and Patricia Lage. Trump has celebrated their endorsements with proud public announcements of their support. In essence, Donald Trump has endorsed Patricia Lage in return.
The 2024 Republican presidential nominee has endorsed a pair of con artists who claim to have magical powers to raise people from the dead, control the weather, eradicate viruses from dairy herds, cast out demons, and confront witchcraft.
The Trump for President campaign has endorsed a view of reality that is downright medieval. When Trump was in the White House in 2020, we all suffered from the consequences of his superstitious animosity to science, reason, and basic observable facts. When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Trump encouraged conspiracy theories about the coronavirus and the vaccines that could control it. He engaged in wild and baseless attacks against medical scientists, all the while encouraging people to engage in crackpot cures such as drinking bleach.
The challenges Americans face are too serious for us to have a President who believes in pseudoscience and magical faith healers. Our country needs leaders who are capable of telling the difference between fantasy and reality.
Patricia Lage and the Holy Spirit Led Ministries also teach that people who disagree with them are not really people, but are demons.
A meme shared by the Holy Spirit Led Ministries for New Year’s Eve on 2023 warned, “To all the people demons that couldn’t stand us this year, just letting you know next year is going to be even worse - Happy 2024!”
It seems that Patty and Dave Lage believe that Americans who are annoyed by them are demons, not people. The Lages also claim to be able to cast our demons.
If what the Lages say is true, then why are there still so many Democrats in America? Why hasn’t Patricia Lage just used her magical Jesus powers cast out all the demon Democrats?
Could it be that Patricia Lage doesn’t have any healing powers at all?
Perhaps you’re thinking that it’s just not fair to accuse Patricia Lage of being superstitious. What if Jesus really has granted her with magical mastery over serious medical conditions? What automatically leads us to presume that Patricia Lage is not in the possession of supernatural powers?
Well, recently Patricia Lage provided a public test of her supposed magical powers. She claimed that she was going to use her Christian magic to stop the spread of bird flu in livestock herds in Iowa.
Seeing a news report from KCCI of “the first reported case of the highly-pathogenic avian influenza within a dairy herd in Iowa” on June 6, 2024, Patricia Lage rushed onto Facebook to do a magic spell to stop the virus from spreading.
“No more in Jesus name!” Lage proclaimed.
Eight days later, the Des Moines Register reported that the bird flu had spread to four additional dairy herds in Iowa.
Donald Trump’s Army of God: Christian Nationalism in the Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a new book about the alarming truth of militant Christian Nationalism hidden behind the innocuous label of “faith” in Iowa politics.
The book examines the extremist Christian Nationalist ideology, grounded in details about the beliefs and actions of Patricia Lage and 316 other Christian Nationalists who are working to undermine democracy across the state of Iowa.
The radicalization of the Iowa Christians profiled in this book enables us to understand the motivations and methods within the Christian Nationalism that exerts an increasing toxic influence in American political culture.
The Iowa Faith Leader Coalition is a radical political organization that violates the law
Let’s make it our business to become aware of the radical preachers who are members of the Coalition.