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By Jeff Childers, 8-8-24
Last week, Daily Wire reporter Megan Basham published a controversial new book, “Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda.” In her heavily-footnoted, carefully-cited book, Basham described a decades-long conspiracy among leftist billionaires, some of whose names rhyme with ‘Noros,’ to infiltrate America’s churches and seed wacky leftist ideas like climate change, gay marriage, trans surgeries, and open borders.
How are they doing it? Bribing them with money. In Shepherds for Sale, Basham names names, identifying prominent Evangelical leaders and even pastors who grabbed money from Soros-affiliated groups with innocent-sounding names, and then suddenly warmed up to all kinds of bizarre, non-Biblical ideas.
Basham’s book has ignited a firestorm in Evangelical circles and ginned up predictable cancellation efforts.
This multiplier isn’t just for Christians. The conspiracy revealed in Basham’s book affects us all, Christians and non-Christians alike. Firstly, it describes how the leftists infiltrate our institutions and create astroturfed political campaigns to support loony schemes like cap-and-trade and childhood chop-a-dictoffmies. These sneaky efforts imperil all our institutions, religious or secular, far beyond churches alone.
But more importantly, if our churches are ever successfully undermined, we will lose the country, and fast. The reason far-left billionaires are targeting Christians is because we constitute the most significant impediment to the globalists’ ‘progressive’ agenda.
As a reminder, after a regrettably faltering start, the Church arguably did more to reverse the pandemic’s authoritarian excesses than did any other institution. More mandates were struck over Constitutional religious liberties than any other single issue. Lockdowns were abandoned after even the liberal Ninth Circuit held churches couldn’t be closed or pastors fined for holding services.
Given the slightly different form, we’ll have to skip the ending in ‘2’ tradition this time. Basham’s new book is currently number 5 on Amazon’s top-seller list. Let’s flex C&C’s muscle and ram it up to number one. If you can easily afford it, you know what to do (Kindle version, $17.99). If you have an extra moment, add a supportive review. You might even work a ‘2’ in there somewhere. (Amazon objectors, here’s the link to the Barnes and Nobles version ($15.99).)
Happy hunting, C&C!
This article was extracted from today’s Coffee and COVID column by Jeff Childers, a Gainesville-based attorney and activist
