Jim Bakker Show - Cancel Culture Leaving No Stone Unturned - Stephen E. Strang
Aired: 2021-08-26
Duration: 04:58


=== Key People Cancelled (04:57) ===

[00:00:00]  You say it leaves no stone unturned.
[00:00:05]  What are you saying in this introduction in the cancel culture?
[00:00:08]  Well, it means that none of us can avoid this.
[00:00:13]  And, you know, I heard Senator Ryan the other day give a very good speech, and he said there's more of us than them.
[00:00:24]  They can't arrest us all, and they can't.
[00:00:28]  But they'll pick out key people.
[00:00:32]  They will get very high-profile people to start with.
[00:00:36]  I mean, they went after the President of the United States and canceled him.
[00:00:42]  Everybody in the country knows Mike Lindell.
[00:00:45]  They went after him.
[00:00:47]  In Christian circles, you were at kind of the same level.
[00:00:51]  They went after you.
[00:00:52]  But they're not satisfied with that.
[00:00:55]  If you go to the school board and you speak up and the school board is left-leaning, as many are, they want you to go away.
[00:01:07]  They'll hassle you until you just take your kids out of public school because you're so, you don't want your six-year-old being told that if he wants to be a girl, he can be.
[00:01:17]  Now, that isn't happening very often yet, but it's happening.
[00:01:21]  It's literally happening.
[00:01:23]  And so what they do is they get Christian people to either homeschool or go to private school.
[00:01:29]  They get them out of the way because they're in trouble.
[00:01:33]  Churches, they're closing down.
[00:01:37]  There was a pastor, I write about it in the book, and his name is in the book.
[00:01:43]  There's no reason for me to say it now.
[00:01:45]  He went through his Twitter account, and you know how you get things on your Twitter account that were conservative.
[00:01:50]  And apparently, I don't do this, but apparently you can hit like.
[00:01:54]  I didn't know they kept track of that, but someone who didn't like him went through and saw that he liked a whole bunch of stuff that she thought was wrong politically.
[00:02:07]  Let me put it that way.
[00:02:08]  He didn't even do anything wrong.
[00:02:10]  She made such a big deal in his area.
[00:02:12]  He's got a very large church, and the large church has a lot of satellites, and some of the satellites were in schools.
[00:02:18]  The school board actually said that they couldn't use those schools anymore because they didn't like what he had just liked.
[00:02:28]  I mean, it wasn't even like he made a speech.
[00:02:31]  You know what I'm saying?
[00:02:32]  I mean, there's some things you can see that people, and he wasn't trying to do anything.
[00:02:37]  He wasn't trying not to do it.
[00:02:38]  He was living his life.
[00:02:40]  Boy, if they go after someone like him, all of us are vulnerable.
[00:02:44]  And then everybody becomes afraid.
[00:02:46]  Well, I'm going to inadvertently say something, and then they're going to come after me, and I'm going to lose my job.
[00:02:52]  I'll lose my reputation or whatever.
[00:02:54]  And so everybody self-censors, which I think is really what is the big problem.
[00:03:01]  We all keep our views to ourselves.
[00:03:04]  We keep our views in the four walls of the church.
[00:03:08]  We're not out in the public square.
[00:03:11]  And one of the things I talk about in the book is the word ecclesia.
[00:03:16]  It's a Greek word.
[00:03:16]  It means marketplace.
[00:03:19]  The church has adopted that.
[00:03:21]  We say ecclesiastical denominations and so forth.
[00:03:25]  But it means marketplace.
[00:03:28]  And in the scripture that says, on this rock I will build my church, the word is ecclesia.
[00:03:32]  They actually used a secular term that everybody knew back in that day.
[00:03:39]  And the church has withdrawn from that.
[00:03:41]  We've withdrawn from media, from academia.
[00:03:47]  And, you know, even when I was in university in the 70s, there were several, I guess you'd call them evangelical professors that I knew personally.
[00:03:57]  And I was known as an evangelical student, and I was aware that they were always very nervous about their tenure.
[00:04:07]  They kept an eye on them, you know what I'm saying?
[00:04:10]  They make it a point where they, nowadays, won't even hire someone like that, period.
[00:04:16]  And so, in some ways, we've had no alternative.
[00:04:18]  We still have freedom in America.
[00:04:20]  You don't have to be on Twitter.
[00:04:22]  There's other things, and there's other apps that you can use to communicate.
[00:04:29]  And we need to support those.
[00:04:31]  When people are coming up with alternatives, we need to support each other.
[00:04:36]  Our side does not support each other.
[00:04:40]  The other side, there's everything from A to Z.
[00:04:43]  They don't all agree, but they stick together.
[00:04:45]  Now, that's an oversimplification.
[00:04:47]  I'm saying for effect.
[00:04:48]  But by and large, they stick together like we don't.
[00:04:52]  It's like, well, that ministry is getting attacked.
[00:04:54]  I'm not getting attacked.
[00:04:55]  I'm going to be quiet.
[00:04:56]  I'm not going to stand up for them.