If we really cared we could sweep (lol) through his old streams to download the transcripts to make it easy to search. Though I bet nearly all references to "Jesus" or "Christ" would have an adjacent expletive.
I tried, but I failed over the span of a few weeks. Whenever someone mentions it, I ask if they have a better line on it than I do. Once day it may be found...
The only "denomination" (used incredibly loosely) I can see accepting him at this point is the Unitarian Universalists. There is one in Willmar. However, I do recall him singing the praises of online church and how lazy it allowed him to be during covid. He's really got his pick of deviant congregations, sexually and otherwise, anywhere as long as they livestream.
I agree he could be 'attending' online if it were just him. I think that Kayala (as a woman) might want to actual social aspect of church, so she could be driving actual attendance.
He definitely had a number of moments where the mask slipped. The first one I saw was the weeb wars Dark Souls stream where he got a little too tipsy and started ranting about Vic. He later said he was just mad about Vic not defending himself. It came off like he was seething Vic wouldn't come on his show and I think that was what it was really about.
The other big one was the whole GothicSushi interview. It felt random, and had basically nothing to do with Vic. The tangential connection was that some cosplayers were saying Vic hit on them, and Sushi spent her interview complaining about other cosplayers. In hindsight, she's a trashy tattooed blonde and Nic was absolutely flirting with her. ("My wife and I would love to meet you in person sometime")
I agree about the little rationalisations fans made for his slips. I did it for a long time.
As for the cosplayer stream, at the time I read it as a Dominique Skye bashing stream and anti-thot rant. At the time Nick was having every Vic grifter on, so I missed any darker sub-text.
Rationalisations, perhaps... There may be nothing deeper than what I explained above, but because of Nick's own actions, he has invited the speculation... It isn't FanFic Farms when you deliberately torch your public image to the point where it is plausible.
The most likely thing for Nick to do is to lie and gaslight his way into some church. His victim narrative and his "I'm the only one who knows the truth but I can't tell you" narrative are already prepared. Coke? All lies. April? She is a battered and abused wife Nick & family took in. CPS are all liars and Nick could prove it if he could only take the stand.
And if that doesn't work, Nick will play the "good man" seeking another chance with them. Things already seem to be pointing in that direction with Nick's new church rolling out "the prodigal son" and "the lost sheep" to welcome him.
Its not as if he cares about the church or its teachings anyway. Its all about pretending for Kayla and pretending for CPS. When the trial is over and he has the kids back, I doubt Nick will ever let any of them near a church again. Or maybe even out in public alone at all for that matter.
Nick thinking on the subject is easy to predict. His mistake in his mind will be allowing too much contact between his cult members and outsiders.
Agreed that even in physical attendance, he could gaslight, and it would take while to see through him. The only thing I could see accelerating the un-masking would be a letter or phone call from his old to the new church, as I pondered a few pages ago...