Megan Basham On How Top Evangelicals ’Traded The Truth’ For Leftism

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🗓️ 1 August 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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On this episode of "The Federalist Radio Hour," Megan Basham, author and culture reporter for The Daily Wire, joins Federalist Executive Editor Joy Pullmann to discuss how progressive politics infiltrated the top ranks of evangelical churches and seminaries and brainstorm the best tactics for dealing with wolves in sheep's clothing corrupting Christian spaces.

You can find Basham's book, Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda, here. Read an excerpt of the book here.

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0:00.0	You're going to go. Welcome to the Federalist Radio Hour, I'm Joy Pullman, the Executive Editor here at the Federalist.
0:22.0	Joining me today is Megan Basham.
0:24.2	She is a culture reporter for The Daily Wire
0:26.8	and the author of the new book out this week,
0:29.1	Shepherds for sale.
0:30.2	Megan, welcome.
0:31.4	Thanks for having me.
0:32.2	It's great to be here.
0:33.0	Could you start by explaining for our listeners why all Americans should care about the
0:38.2	state of evangelical churches even if they're not a member of such a church?
0:42.0	Yes, so you know there's a very big... even if they're not a member of such a church?
0:42.8	Yes, so you know there's a very big reason to care about evangelicals because there are a lot of
0:48.8	them.
0:49.8	They're about 30% of the US electorate. They have rightly been called America's most powerful
0:55.9	voting block and in a lot of ways if you're a political conservative they serve as
1:00.4	the firewall for a lot of the policies that the left has been
1:04.6	interested in advancing, whether that is on things like climate change
1:09.4	initiatives or on immigration policy or on DEEI initiatives, things of that nature, you will again and again kind of see those
1:19.0	evangelicals act not only as the most conservative voters, but as the voters who by their very
1:25.2	nature of being so big are the ones that create this last fortress, as I call it in the book.
1:33.0	Tell our listeners a little bit about George Soros and other similarly anti-Christian
1:39.4	big money going to manipulate churches into functioning, sounded like to me basically like community
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