{"id":8079,"date":"2024-08-01T09:18:33","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/?p=8079"},"modified":"2024-08-01T09:18:33","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T16:18:33","slug":"shepherds-for-sale-the-definitive-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jasonsblog.ddns.net\/index.php\/2024\/08\/01\/shepherds-for-sale-the-definitive-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherds for Sale: The Definitive Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I downloaded my copy, and I was first intrigued by the Babylon Bee article<\/a> showing how there is an organized attack against her and the book. I’m familiar with most of these false teachers and their activities, but it will be interesting to see the organizations and receipts for how the money is entering into the picture. I’d go a step further and say the Freemasons are heavily involved as well, as those Satan worshipers have purposely infiltrated the church and led to it’s accepting liberal doctrines<\/a>, with 33rd degree Freemason Billy Graham<\/a> being one of the most notable members. And as is told, the 33rd degree in Freemasonry is where you learn you serve Satan if you were too stupid to figure it out before then, but such is the way with secretive societies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/protestia.com\/2024\/07\/30\/shepherds-for-sale-the-definitive-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n

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The online pushback and downright vitriol directed towards Daily Wire writer and reporter Megan Basham in advance of her book Shepherds for Sale<\/a> demonstrate one very important reality: There is an entire industry (dare we say \u201cmindustry?\u201d) invested in suppressing the information in her book. It is one thing for the mainstream of Christian culture to dismiss discernment\/polemics websites as fringe for cataloging the awfulness of the Evangelical Industrial Complex (also known as \u201cBig Eva,\u201d \u201cEvangelicalism Inc.\u201d or my favorite \u201cEvangelical Intelligentsia\u201d), it is another altogether to read a comprehensive treatment of these characters engaging in the kind of rank hypocrisy and compromise that makes it obvious to the saved and the lost alike how truly awful the industry of Christianity has become.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet this is exactly what Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda<\/em> does. To be sure, Megan Basham is much nicer than we are at Protestia. The bad actors she might call \u201ccompromised\u201d are the same ones we will gladly remind you are, at best, useful idiots<\/a> and, at worst<\/a> are godless interlopers of the highest order. Our conference-disqualifying ways have always been blamed on pugnaciousness, lack of \u201cgentleness,\u201d or some other vague, emotionalized label, yet the similar attacks faced by Basham for her straightforward, undeniable cataloging of Big Eva\u2019s seedy underbelly demonstrate yet again that it is the message they hate, not the messenger or the messenger\u2019s verbiage.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In contrast to traditional churches, the Evangelical Industrial Complex<\/em> funds itself on influence, celebrity, and institutional connections with the world. It looks and sounds just like the world because, at its core, it is of the world<\/em>. It presents itself as bigger than the church, superior to the people it influences (often institutional climbers and\/or \u201cservant leader\u201d pastors with no real ideas of their own), and tasked with offering Jesus-branded fulfillment for the desires of the godless world \u2013 usually by partnering with it. As the book anecdotally demonstrates, this has been long suspected (and regularly experienced) by regular pew-sitters who are too nice to simply ask why their pastors are going with the flow of culture rather than paddling furiously against it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much of Shepherds for Sale<\/em>\u2018s content will be familiar to regular readers of Protestia. This website (along with its progenitor Pulpit and Pen and allied sites, podcasts, Youtubers, and writers too numerous to mention) has been busy exposing and cataloging this downgrade in conservative Christianity for years). Yet Megan Basham has provided an invaluable service to faithful pew-sitters and pastors everywhere through this tightly organized, deeply researched, and smoothly written book. She wields her words with the serrated precision of the strongest polemics bloggers yet deftly draws upon impactful real-world stories to make clear how the players, organizations, and motivations behind each issue have brought abuse and harm to the pews. She hits hard at every major leftist social and political priority, explaining in detail how our churches wound up with the Jesus versions<\/em> of radical climate change ideology, open borders chaos, \u201cpro-life\u201d industry, media knockoffs, critical race theory, MeToo feminism, LGBTQ capitulation, and COVID \u201cvaccine\u201d and lockdown tyranny. Any faithful evangelical Christian uninterested in reading what, according to John MacArthur, \u201cmay just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years\u201d is either unserious about the exercise of their faith or is too invested in the business of Christianity to risk pulling their head out of the sand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following is a list of topics covered in the book, with links to additional (and sometimes predating) information as chronicled by Protestia and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Climate Change Cult<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Basham tees off on what Protestia calls the Christianization of the Climate Cult<\/a>, featuring characters like Jonathan Moo, who along with his father Douglas Moo<\/a>, pusher of so-called \u201ccreation care\u201d as a form of \u201cbiblical social justice, Al Gorean prophetess to the seminaries Katherine Hayhoe<\/a>, and the weak-kneed, compromised leaders like Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary president Danny Akin<\/a>, who, to this day, allow the climate cult to dig its claws into seminary students under the guise of being \u201ccreation lovers.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Open Borders and Illegal Immigration<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In unpacking institutional evangelicalism\u2019s support for open borders and lawless immigration policies, Basham draws on the personal experiences of individuals like Maureen Maloney, whose son was killed by an illegal immigrant. The funding and political motives behind the Evangelical Immigration Table<\/a> (EIT) and its connections to left-wing organizations are comprehensively detailed. Of course, these include the George Soros connections leftist evangelicals bend over backward to deny, but which Pulpit and Pen and Protestia have been reporting on for years<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cPro-Life\u201d Movement<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Shepherds for Sale<\/em> describes the ongoing effort of feminism-compromised evangelical leaders to redefine \u201cpro-life\u201d to include social welfare (womb to tomb<\/a>, anyone?), and avoid holding women responsible for murdering their unborn children, with she-wolves like Karen Swallow Prior<\/a> and Beth Moore<\/a> using the overturning of Roe v. Wade<\/a> into opportunities not to celebrate a victory for life, but to remind the world that abortion is mostly blamed on a lack of redistribution of wealth to mothers<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christianity Astray<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Basham offers an excellent treatment of the woefully and disgustingly compromised Christian media complex, using Russell Moore\u2019s Christianity Today<\/a> and the Trinity Forum<\/a> as prime examples of leftward drift, influenced by leftist funders like the Lilly Endowment. Christianity Today\u2019s staff and writers, as Basham has previously reported<\/a>, donate exclusively to liberal Democrat candidates, parroted the church-shaming COVID lockdown narrative<\/a>, and produce what is, at best, a cheap, Christian-veneered knockoff of Time Magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

COVID Spiritual Abuse<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Francis Collins<\/a>, Anthony Fauci<\/a>, and their band of COVID propaganda-pushing evangelical ghouls<\/a> like Russell Moore<\/a> and Ed Stetzer<\/a> are exposed in chapter five, along with evangelical mainstays like Tim Keller<\/a>, Rick Warren<\/a>, JD Greear<\/a>, David French, pushing now-debunked government COVID demands<\/a> into churches via the spiritually abusive application of \u201clove your neighbor.\u201d Collins famously called evangelicals murderers for not masking up while singing in church<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kingdom Diversity<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The divisive push of critical race theory (CRT) is laid at the feet of Ibram X Kendi<\/a>, Jemar Tisby<\/a>, and world-pleasing stooges like Summit Church\u2019s JD Greear<\/a> and Village Church\u2019s Matt Chandler<\/a>. The Southern Baptist Convention\u2019s twisted adoption of the infamous Resolution 9<\/a> in 2019 (originally an anti-CRT resolution that became a doorway for its adoption) is recounted, along with the near veneration in evangelical circles of George Floyd<\/a> as a martyr for systemic racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Abuse Inc.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chapter seven of Shepherds for Sale<\/em>, detailing the MeToo calamity<\/a> that overtook evangelicalism (particularly the SBC<\/a>) is perhaps the most controversial and important in the entire book. To this day, many pastors and pew-sitters are convinced there was and is an ongoing sex abuse crisis in the SBC akin to the priest pedophilia scandal that rocked Roman Catholicism in the early 2000s. Led by pied piper Rachael Denhollander<\/a> and a predictable stream of cowardly bureaucrats like North American Mission Board president Kevin Ezell<\/a>, the total lack of a systemic abuse problem in the SBC<\/a> remains largely unknown by regular churchgoers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LGBTQ \u201cChristians\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Andy Stanley\u2019s Embracing the Journey<\/a> conference (as comprehensively exposed by Protestia\u2014we were there for it) is part of Basham\u2019s thorough examination of anti-biblical compromise on sexuality that has overrun mainline denominations and Roman Catholicism and made measurable inroads into conservative evangelical circles. Stanley\u2019s unabashed compromise and willingness to \u201caccommodate\u201d the gay preferences of the culture has been enough to wake up many pastors (Ryan Visconti<\/a> being a discussed example), who are now seeing the devil behind the curtain of world-sensitive marketers like Stanley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Megah Basham\u2019s book is thorough, easy to read, and well worth the time of every Christian \u2013 whether you are familiar with its topics (because you wisely read Protestia), or are simply wondering why your pastor is refusing to side with obvious biblical truth on the world\u2019s pet issues. Pick it up today<\/a>, or gift it to someone you know who needs to be equipped to fight evangelicalism\u2019s leftist disease.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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