Aden Rusfeldt

ChristianityPastorEvangelical FundamentalismPreacher

Jul 15

**DOB:** N/A

**Nationality:** American

**Location:** U.S
**Ideology/Affiliation:** Evangelical Fundamentalism/ Confrontational Evangelism

**Type of Leader:** Pastor/ Street Preacher

Biography

Aden Rusfeldt is a self-styled “pastor-street preacher” who currently heads the Key of David Christian Centre in Philadelphia. Although not a well-known preacher that leads sermons attended by a large number of people, Rusfeldt adopts “street-preaching” as his method of disseminating his radical discourse.

Rusfeldt’s website, the Key of David Christian Centre openly states it stands against Islam, the Catholic Church, Calvinism, “all other cults” and TV preachers who prefer buying airtime instead of preaching face-to-face.

Aden Rusfeldt wrote a book titled “Open Air Fire: Principles of Open Air Outreach By Pastor Aden Rusfeldt”, where he argued that Jesus’ word commands men to be a little bolder by preaching openly in the streets and not to be afraid of offending any individual. Rusfeldt has regularly undertaken open-street preaching at various university campuses in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. Rusfeldt’s street-preaching has been characterised as provocative, racist and offensive - with his followers often holding signs with insulting messages aimed at minorities, other religions, the homosexual community and feminists. His supporters have also chanted racist and misogynistic slurs at passersby.

None

352 subscribers

See YouTube page

None

keyofdavidcc.com

Visit website

Evidence of Hate Speech/Incitement:

May 2019: Rusfeldt, his wife and their group of supporters held a small demonstration outside the Saint Joseph University in Pennsylvania preaching against gangster rappers, rock 'n' roll "freaks," gays, Muslims, Jews and "so-called Christians."

December 2018: During a report interview with the Philly mag, Rusfeldt mentioned that he openly stated that the Catholic Pope supports pedophilia while holding a demonstration at a Catholic university.

April 2018: The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that in April 2018, Rusfeldt held a demonstration in the Community College of Philadelphia where himself and his supporters held signs with messages such as “Homos and Muslims go to hell”.

Extremist Individuals - Christianity