Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on tonight show of a very special guest. His name is James Beverly. He's been a professor over 40 years, but he just published a book. I'm delighted. I finished the book yesterday. It's an excellent book. And very timely, the title of the book is the Q and Non Deception. Everything you need to know about the world's most dangerous conspiracy theory

published December 23, 2020. Mr. Beverly is an associate director of the Institute for the

Study of American Religion in Woodway, Texas, and research professor at Tyndale University in

Toronto, Canada. He's the author of 16 books, which include religions A to Z and Understanding Islam.

He's also the associate editor of Melton's Encyclopedia of American Religion.

He's a specialist on the relationship of evangelical Christians to Donald Trump,

publishing three books on the subject.

One, Trump of God's Man in the White House, and Donald Trump, Evangelical Civil War, sorry, and then this book.

And he's also an expert opinion on, has been both sought in criminal and civil trials, including the case of Holocaust denier, Malcolm

Ross. So Mr. Beverly, are you there?

Sure, I am, William. I call me Jim, by the way. That's fine.

Thanks. Well, Jim, for people who may not have known your name, can you please talk about your

background and what led you, you talk about it in the book, how do you experience with conspiracy theories, but what led you to write this book, the Q&OND deception?

Well, last year in the spring, I was working on conspiracy theories in general, and then I noticed

how dominant QAnon was in the discussion.

So I realized sometime in July, August, that I should write the first book length analysis

of Q&ONON.

There's a lot of pro-QAnon books on Amazon, but really they are, they are a collection of some of the weakest

books I've ever seen.

Anyway, I thought, I knew there was space for an objective, careful, analytical look at

Q&N.

So I started the book in August and finished it, and it came out just before Christmas.

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