On his radio program last week, Donald Trump-loving pastor, conspiracy theorist and birther Carl Gallups interviewed Mike Shoesmith, the executive editor of PNN News, who claimed that famed physicist Stephen Hawking was able to live for decades with ALS because he was being kept alive by demons.
Shoesmith, who normally appears on Gallups' program to complain about women, insisted that it was no coincidence that Hawking died just weeks after Billy Graham passed away, explaining that Graham's ministry "really kicked off" in 1942, which prompted the devil to use Hawking, who was born in 1942, to counter Graham's preaching.
"[Graham] is a hundred percent devoted," Shoesmith said. "The Lord sees his heart, gives him a tremendous ministry, and who do you think is sitting in the background going, 'I have to do something about this, this guy is sold out, I have to do something'? Who do you think is sitting in the background doing that? The devil, right?"
"So, in 1942, that is when Billy Graham's ministry really takes off, and who do you think was born in 1942?" he continued. "Stephen Hawking. Stephen Hawking comes from a long line of atheists—his father and all these people—so I believe the devil said, 'OK, this guy was just born and I'm going to use this guy. This guy is already primed to accept my message that there is no God. He is already primed for it, he is going to be awash, immersed in atheism all his years as a child, I'm going to take over this guy's life.'"
"I believe Stephen Hawking was kept alive by demonic forces," Shoesmith said. "I believe that it was the demonic realm that kept this man alive as a virtual vegetable his entire life just so he could spread this message that there is no God."
Shoesmith went on to assert that if Hawking had simply reached out to God, Jesus would have cast the demons out of him and he would have been completely and miraculously healed.
