(David Morrill) The online pushback and downright vitriol directed towards Daily Wire writer and reporter Megan Basham in advance of her book Shepherds for Sale demonstrate one very important reality: There is an entire industry (dare we say “mindustry?”) 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 “Big Eva,” “Evangelicalism Inc.” or my favorite “Evangelical Intelligentsia”), 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.
Yet this is exactly what Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda does. To be sure, Megan Basham is much nicer than we are at Protestia. The bad actors she might call “compromised” are the same ones we will gladly remind you are, at best useful idiots and at worst are godless interlopers of the highest order. Our conference-disqualifying ways have always been blamed on pugnaciousness, lack of “gentleness,” or some other vague, emotionalized label, yet the similar attacks faced by Basham for her straightforward, undeniable cataloging of Big Eva’s seedy underbelly demonstrate yet again that it is the message they hate, not the messenger or the messenger’s verbiage.
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CRN has compiled a list of false teachers and several other professing Christians we’ve warned you about over the years. The list also contains those we must keep an eye on plus movements, organizations and “frauds, phonies and money-grubbing religious quacks” to mark and avoid as per Romans 16:17-18