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Alex Barnes-Ross Stirs Up Hate Against Latter-day Saints Immediately After Fatal Church Attack
Alex Barnes-Ross, true to form, simply cannot contain his bigotry.
Within hours of an attack on hundreds of worshippers in a Michigan Latter-day Saints church that left four dead, eight wounded and the entire nation mourning and heartbroken for their fellow citizens, Barnes-Ross published an inflammatory post attacking the religion and its members.
“The Mormon Church is a cult,” he declared on X, in an effort to score a few points with his fellow bigots.
Barnes‑Ross doesn’t just spew hatred online—he incites it, normalises it and does so with utter disregard for human lives.
A man had just rammed his lorry into a Latter-day Saints chapel, opened fire and set the house of worship ablaze.
The Grand Blanc church was burned to the ground by the end of Sunday.
Barnes-Ross, a serial harasser who was kicked out of the Church of Scientology after stalking a young woman, has since devoted all of his energy to seeking revenge—making online hate and real-world harassment his “full-time job” and primary source of income.
Eerily, the language used by Barnes‑Ross’ bigoted and unhinged circle of criminal associates echoes the very violence that just devastated a Michigan congregation: During a livestream in which Jon Breen and Barnes‑Ross documented their joint harassment of parishioners outside a Church of Scientology, Breen announced that the Church’s U.K. headquarters “should burn down.”
Barnes‑Ross made no objection. Apparently, he agrees.
This is, after all, the same extremist who refers to himself as a “slayer” of the Scientology religion, who proclaims “I’m on war footing and I’m not f—king about,” and who promotes the cyberterrorist hate collective Anonymous while he places Scientologists on notice that they have been “warned” of the harm Barnes-Ross hopes will come to them.
Barnes‑Ross doesn’t just spew hatred online—he incites it, normalises it and does so with utter disregard for human lives. In the wake of real-world violence against Latter-day Saints, his words about their church are not abstract—they are a threat, a warning and a stark reminder that bigotry left unchecked can turn deadly. And for peaceful parishioners in Grand Blanc Township, Michigan—those Barnes-Ross calls members of a “cult”—it just has.
That is the danger of men like Barnes‑Ross: His vicious, hateful rhetoric isn’t confined to screens but seeps into the world, risking lives, terrorising communities and echoing the very violence he celebrates with glee.
