James The Preacher

> "James... You are not my friend. You're not my audience's friend. You're nobody's friend!"
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> - CuteFuzzyWeasel to James, in the last Feeding the Trolls video dedicated to him.

James Lyman, also known as **James The Preacher** and by his various YouTube usernames such as "exposingthecults", "James The Pleasant Preacher", "falsegospelmocker", "deadcelebritiesinhell", "OneChristianVoice", among many others, is an American Christian minister who was the second person featured on Feeding The Trolls, and is arguably one of Weasel's most despised and loathed trolls he has ever featured on the series.

James is well known for his use of inflammatory hate speech against homosexuals, atheists, leftists, and anyone who isn't white protestant. He has garnered detractors for such things as saying that the Sandy Hook Shooting happened because mothers didn't stay in the kitchen and sent their kids to a public school, saying that the victims of the 2012 Aurora Theater Shooting went to hell because they went to see the Dark Knight Rises and Batman is a product of the devil, has appeared in a video where he is donned in blackface and talking about how Martin Luther King isn't a good representative of black people while badly imitating black people's voices, has made a video where he said if he were elected president of the United States, he would essentially turn America into a fascist theocracy where anyone who badmouths Christians are silenced, among many other things.

Weasel fed James four times, retiring him as a feeding target after the fourth episode on him due to him not wanting to give him any further attention because it only fellates James' idea that the world is against him. He ends the episode by leaving an effigy of James out in the woods with some rocks, some sticks and a dead animal, leaving him off to rot in the stone age. James' evil spirit would sporadically return to torment Weasel in future episodes, such as forcing him to feed Jared Milton a second time in Episode 45.

James was mentioned again in the Top 10 Trolls of 2012, coming in 2nd place to MonkeyGameGuides. After giving James the dishonor of being the only troll he had to feed due to a national tragedy, Weasel revealed some more horrible details. For a start, when he first saw James, he thought he was a joke, which turned out to be dead wrong. Then, in additional to being a "pathological asshole," James Lyman is possibly an actual child abuser. His church was involved in an incident when a child ran away from some kind of daycare, and the person running the daycare (whose name was kept unknown) told the other children to chase him down and "beat the shit out of him." After revealing that, Weasel expressed his understandable fantasies about punching James in the face repeatedly, especially after the Sandy Hook video.

A year later, James the Preacher was Number 3 in the Top 10 Trolls of 2013, by popular vote. After calling him a "piece of shit," only to take it back since "shit has its place in the ecosystem," Weasel said that being James the Preacher was insulting enough. He then stated James doesn't deserve recognition after his Sandy Hook video. Weasel then expressed more serious hate for James, saying he'd punch him in the face if he ever met him in public. Knowing James the Preacher possesses multiple accounts, Weasel said a hard no to ever doing him again, stating he doesn't deserve to be on the show. While that doesn't mean there will be people more offensive than him on the show, Weasel believed James had been given all the face time he needed. He concluded with "Fuck you James. Fuck your face. Fuck your weird-ass ideology. Fuck your screwed up head. Fuck your barrel... and ***fuck you!***"

While that was the end of James the Preacher on Feeding the Trolls, in 2019, Weasel did a video on the even more infamous Jesse Lee Peterson, another Christian reverend and far-right activist. After witnessing Jesse atrociously suggest to a man that he walk away from his stepdaughter, Weasel called it just about the worst thing he ever had on the show, citing he even had James the Preacher on it. Jesse was then nicknamed by fans "Black James the Preacher," implying James might have a successor after all.

As of 2022, James Lyman had ceased creating YouTube and his website had remained inactive.