All Episodes
Previous Next
Aug. 8, 2024 - Stew Peters Show
59:22
Millstone Report w Paul Harrell: FBI/DOJ TARGET Anti-War Journalist Scott Ritter, Shepherds For Sale
| Copy link to current segment

Time Text
Thank you.
Alright folks, welcome to the program.
This is the Millstone Report.
Thank you so much for being with us.
My name is Paul Harrell.
We can't do the program without you, as always.
We really appreciate it.
So, back in 2013, Vladimir Putin signed a law banning LGBT propaganda in his country.
A year later, the U.S. State Department, led by Victoria Nuland, launched a coup in neighboring Ukraine and installed a government that was friendly to the West and to NATO and antagonistic toward Putin's Russia.
During the last 10 years or so, parts of eastern Ukraine have been almost under constant attack.
Why?
Well, according to reports, those regions of eastern Ukraine are friendly towards Russia.
They want to be governed by Russians.
That's why, right before Russia invaded Ukraine, Putin signed a decree making the regions of Donsk, Luhansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhya Forgive my butchering of that pronunciation.
He made them official parts of the Russian Federation.
Officially.
Right before he invaded.
Now, at the time, Putin cited a referendum, a vote of the people that showed that they wanted to do this.
That was the outcome of the referendum.
This, of course, enraged NATO and enraged the West.
Shortly after that, Putin invaded and started what he called his Special Limited Military Operation.
And when this happened, suddenly America, Americans, had a lot, and I mean a lot, of propaganda to sift through.
Remember it?
Ukrainian flags appeared in social media profile pics across the world.
And Western news media outlets endlessly preached to us that the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked.
And the simple fact that the media, in unison, was hell-bent on convincing us that we had nothing to do with provoking Putin should inform you that...
That's exactly what we did.
Because the media lies 24-7.
Immediately after the invasion of Ukraine, one thing became clear to me, and that's many of the intel brass and diplomatic shills were very concerned about LGBTQ RSTL any would-you-like-to-buy-val rights in the wake of Putin's invasion.
After all, Putin outlawed gay propaganda almost 10 years prior.
Which, if anything, was a signal that Putin was not going to accept the Western benefits of liberty, which is really code for embracing sodomy and sodomite lifestyles and claiming that it's healthy, good, and even righteous for people who practice such things.
Days after Putin invaded Ukraine, a man by the name of Richard C. Moore, who is the head of MI6, which is Britain's version of the CIA, took to social media to lament.
What Putin's invasion really means for the LGBTQ rights in Ukraine.
Quote, he said, with the tragedy and destruction unfolding so distressingly in Ukraine, we should remember the values and hard-won freedoms that distinguish us from Putin none more than LGBT plus rights, end quote.
None more.
There's no other value that distinguishes us More from Putin than being gay.
Now that Times piece, where that snippet was from, goes on to further relate a story of Moore's where he brags about the fact that Britain's chief intelligence agency has made sure to carve out safe spaces for those who are gay and employed at MI6. This is why I have long said that one of the key reasons why the Ukraine war is being fought is over gay rights.
And while that may sound ridiculous, if true, it may make this war the gayest war of all time.
And it wouldn't be the first time a war was fought over a trifle.
Helen of Troy comes to mind.
But is it really a trifle, folks?
I'm not so sure.
The collective West is currently being ruled by leaders who are not allowed to rise to power unless they believe in gay mirage and policies that are anti-Christian and anti-family.
And that is no trivial matter.
Not to me, anyway.
It shouldn't be to you.
I would imagine this is one of the reasons why Vladimir Putin claims pedophilia has now become a Western value.
Take a moment, read the subtitles of this speech, one of Putin's speeches.
Watch this.
But they also cannot give themselves an account that winning Russia on the battlefield is impossible.
Therefore, they lead against us more aggressive information attacks.
First of all, they choose young people, young people.
And here again, they lie constantly.
They don't want to be the case of the history of the facts, they don't want to be the case of the culture, the religious religious church, and other traditional religious organizations of our country.
Look what they do with their own people.
The destruction of their families, the cultural and national identity, the destruction of the children, the pedophilia, the norm of their lives.
They don't want to be the case of the people of our country.
They don't want to be the case of the people of our country.
They want to be the case of the people of our country.
They want to live in the past.
But look at the Holy Crips, the main books of all other world religions.
There is everything that is said.
In addition to that, that family is a union of men and women.
But also these.
Amazing.
So if you read all of that, you're going to notice a few things.
He cited attacks on the Russian Orthodox Church.
He cited how the West is attacking the normal nuclear family with perversions.
He said that in regard to children, pedophilia is the new norm, which is increasingly true in the West.
Kids are being sexualized and groomed at school, and drag shows for kids are newsflash actually for kids.
So half-naked men dressed up like women can ogle young children.
And satisfy their own lusts, at least in their minds.
He went on to say that in the West, clergy are forced to officiate same-sex weddings.
Now keep in mind that in Europe, just because of church, which this is happening all the time, churches are doing this all the time, they're okaying gay marriage.
Just because they officially okay, it doesn't mean that they haven't been forced to do so behind the scenes.
And then he says, what people do in private is their business.
Which is very pluralistic.
Doesn't really sound like the guy that we've been told about.
But then he goes on to say, but open up any scripture of any great religion and you will find marriages between man and woman and everybody applauds.
Now notice how he, unfortunately in my opinion, left room for pluralism in that speech.
But does that sound like the boogeyman that we see on the news?
Or does it sound like any average American politician from the 1990s or even Barack Obama from 2008?
Why is the West obsessed with now exporting homosexuality?
Why does sodomy have to be the zenith, the end-all be-all of Western democracy?
And it's not just Ukraine, who is led by an actor, by the way, who's famous for playing the piano with his privates.
No, it's not just Ukraine.
Recently, former United Nations weapons inspector Scott Ritter went on Judge Andrew Napolitano's show to report on the disgusting story of Israeli soldiers raping male Palestinian prisoners.
When the soldiers were charged with rape, there was almost a civil war where apparently some were claiming that they had a legal right to rape prisoners.
Because, you know, they're subhuman creatures.
Watch Scott Ritter break down this disturbing story.
When the Israelis jail nine soldiers for raping Palestinian prisoners, and then Israeli citizens rise up and say that the Talmud interpretation of Jewish law says it's not a crime to rape non-Jews and that these men should be freed.
Not only that, then they sent hundreds of people to the Palestinian prisons demanding to be allowed in so they can rape the Palestinian prisoners because they're permitted to under Jewish law.
This led to a near civil war in Israel where soldiers were facing off against soldiers.
You know, this isn't bad Hollywood movie.
This isn't the preface to some sort of zombie apocalypse.
This is reality happening in Israel right now.
Our ally.
We claim that Israel and America is alike in many ways.
I don't know, when was the last time 500 American citizens stormed a state prison saying, we need to be allowed in to rape the prisoners because we're permitted to under our religious beliefs.
So that's happening in Israel as we speak.
The nine soldiers were released now from custody.
They're not going to be charged with a crime because apparently in Israel, raping prisoners is no longer a crime.
That's just one thing.
They're blowing up.
They blew up a school today with students in it.
The school burned.
The students were inside the school burning to death.
The parents were outside listening as their children screamed as they were burned to death.
That happens on a daily basis.
What Israel has become literally The worst incarnation of what we could imagine Nazi Germany was like back in the day.
And some people even say that even the Nazis weren't this bad.
I don't go quite that way.
I think killing millions of people in horrific fashion is as bad as it gets.
But I think Israel's approximating the scope and scale of that behavior.
Absolutely disgusting.
Video of the rapes where soldiers stand in line, what it looks to me like waiting their turn, are circulating online.
It's a video that I will not show you here, even though the images are blurred.
You can find it for yourself if you want to.
About a day or so after Scott Ritter reported on that story...
The FBI showed up at his house to raid his home.
Watch.
So according to reports, the FBI were there for a long time.
Here is Scott Ritter right after the feds left his home, right after the raid, and this is what he had to say.
The search warrant is related to concerns apparently the U.S. government has about violations of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
I will tell you right now, I am not in violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act.
I have not done anything that would do it, and hopefully by executing the search warrant, And taking the materials that they did, they will rapidly reach that conclusion.
I will say that things like this have a chilling effect on free speech.
There's no doubt that I'm being targeted because of statements I've made about US policy in Ukraine.
I'm being targeted because I have made an effort to try and improve relations between the United States and Russia, to try to bring about arms control, to bring about peace.
Apparently somebody in the US government takes umbrage at this, so they executed a search warrant.
The FBI was extraordinarily professional.
I have no complaints against the personnel that did this.
I do have complaints against the personnel that What causes this to happen?
This has a chilling impact on free speech.
The idea that you have a free speech right in America when you execute it in a manner that the U.S. government takes exception to and they launch a search warrant, that is an intimidation factor.
I can say that I am not intimidated.
And I will continue to speak out and I will continue to do what I do because that's my responsibility as an American citizen and I will continue to operate in that manner.
So I think I gave you all the answers you need at this point in time.
I would request that you respect that and let me and my wife get on with our business.
What time did they show up today?
I don't know.
They were here a long time.
Can you say generally what type of stuff was in the boxes they took?
The search warrant allowed them to look for electronic equipment.
They were clearly interested in communications that I've had with people related to the work I do.
That's all I can say about it.
It's up to them to review it.
I have nothing to hide.
I was cooperative with them.
It is what it is, and we'll get on with it.
But as I said, I respect their right to do what they did.
I'm not in violation of the law, and I will not be intimidated.
So anybody upstairs who thought that this will intimidate me and cause me to stop speaking out, they guessed wrong.
Have a great day.
They took that.
That's an old story, but yeah, my passport was seized when I returned from Russia back in June.
When I was getting ready to leave for Russia back in June.
You said they took stuff that was related to your work.
What work exactly?
I'm a writer.
You figure it out.
You're a journalist?
Imagine if they did a search warrant in your workplace, what would they take?
Two plus two equals four.
Some of us in this country Still believe, people that you walk around with every single day, they still believe that we live in a free country.
That is clearly not the case.
Unbelievable that this is where we're at.
Obviously, that's why I started the monologue.
He obviously believes, Ritter is saying there, he doesn't believe necessarily that...
The interview he gave with Napolitano about the story of the rapes in Israel and the Palestinian prisoners, he doesn't necessarily believe that that was the straw that broke the camel's back.
He's claiming it was his Ukraine, specifically his anti-war coverage of the war in Ukraine.
It's not just Napolitano's show.
Scott Ritter, again, former United Nations weapons inspector.
There's a clip circulating online of...
Joe Biden way back in the day questioning Ritter in a congressional hearing over weapons of mass destruction.
But he's a frequent guest over on Clayton Morris, redacted that show.
He's a frequent guest there talking about the Ukraine war and has really done great work.
And he doesn't want war.
He doesn't want World War III. And his passport, he was supposed to go to Russia to some conference, you know, a month or so ago, and he was at the airport, and the government said, you can't go, and they seized his passport.
I mean, so they've already been watching the guy, and they don't appreciate his coverage.
They don't appreciate what he writes.
They don't appreciate what he says on Twitter.
You know, varying podcasts and TV shows.
And now they have finally decided, we're going to raid this guy and we're going to see if we can make up some charges on him.
I won't be surprised if they do find something, you know, that they're going to charge him with on trumped-up charges.
And yeah, he may beat the charges, but will he survive the ride?
Unfortunately, that's what likely Scott Ritter has in store.
They're clearly going after him.
He's got to know that this is probably not the end of it, although I'm sure he's got attorneys and that sort of thing.
My goodness, this is just...
And he was also just with RFK Jr.
We've got that for you, but before, I want to go back to this real quick because if you can see something here, let me get rid of this.
This shirt that he's wearing, let me see if I can't get this one here.
Let me get a photo of it.
Yeah, okay, so that is Inigo Montoya.
I think it's funny and interesting that he comes out, Scott Ritter here, he comes out to address the press wearing a guy who's famous for the line.
Well, I'll just play it for you.
Hello.
My name is Inigo Montoya.
You killed my father.
Prepare to die.
So I don't think this guy's backing down anytime soon.
That's what I have to say.
I think maybe that's just a random shirt, but anyway, that's his attitude is I'm going to charge once more into the breach and I'm going to continue doing the work that I feel that I have the freedom to do as an American citizen, as a journalist, as a writer.
Scott Ritter...
Being targeted by the Fed.
So, here we go.
I mean, we were just talking with John Guandolo yesterday on this program who said over and over and over again that we are now in a communist country.
The people ruling us are actually communists.
And if you're in a communist country, then you really don't have rights.
And so we can expect this, many more scenes like this, are going to be in front of our eyes.
I mentioned RFK Jr.
into thin air, a good follow.
Especially if you want to watch the skies and watch the weather.
Breaking FBI raid Scott Ritter's home.
Ritter is an ex-U.S. intelligence officer.
Nineteen hours ago, he was eating burgers with RFK. Right?
And before that, again, he was on Napolitano covering the story about the Israelis and the Palestinians and the rapes and the nine people who were let loose and are not going to be charged with rape now, apparently.
Again, we have another one.
This does have a chilling effect on free speech.
We know that.
Scott Ritter said this about Israel.
The FBI raided his home less than 24 hours later.
Again, you've already seen that clip.
So, I mean, this is just going to continue.
And then again, here they are, you know, part of the video here we've already seen him raiding the home.
So anyway, it's pretty incredible.
I do want to say this.
You know, in the monologue, we spent a lot of time on Vladimir Putin's Russia, specifically LGBT. And in that speech that we played for you, where you had to read the subtitles, where he said, you know, they're basically attacking the American, or they're attacking the family, the Western.
They're attacking the family wherever you live.
They're attacking the normal...
Western family, led by a man with a wife and kids.
And so Dusty Devers, the Christian National Estate Senator from Oklahoma, says, on a scale from 1 to 10, how surprised are you that the author of the Pedophile Protection Act, is what he calls it, the Pedophile Protection Act, so Putin also said pedophilia is now a Western value.
And I know that's not what they actually called it, but The Pedophile Protection Act is what Dusty Devers, how he characterizes it.
HF1655 was signed by Tim Waltz on March 19, 2023, and it's a bill which makes pedophiles a protected class in Minnesota.
It's transgender state rep Lee Fink.
Lee Fink.
Go ahead and look at this.
I mean, are you surprised that So this is the guy that the left is embracing.
Somebody pretending to be a woman.
He also says, Tim Walls is such a godless and evil governor that it's possible to do a full 25 post thread about his insanity and not have room for the bill he signed, making pedophiles a protected class under Minnesota law.
What does this say, actually?
Minnesota Statute 2022, it says sexual orientation.
Sexual orientation means having or being perceived as having an emotional, physical, or sexual attachment to another person without regard to the sex of that person or having or being perceived as having an orientation for such attachment.
What?
Sexual orientation means having or being perceived as having an emotional, physical, or sexual attachment to another person without regard to the sex of that person or having or being perceived as having an orientation for such attachment.
What's crossed out here?
Or having or being perceived as having a self-image or identity not traditionally associated with one's biological male and female.
Sexual orientation does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.
So that's what the section of code used to mean.
Sexual orientation does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.
So they removed the definition of essentially, hey, we're not talking about pedophilia here.
They removed that and then they added this.
Wow.
So yeah, Tim Waltz did sign.
I mean, basically call it the Pedophile Protection Act.
Wow.
So when, again, so when, you know, Vladimir Putin over there says pedophilia is a Western value, you know, you really can't defend against it.
I mean, we really can't.
There's no way you'd love to.
You'd love to say, I wish that we weren't the godless communists.
You know, the godless communists that we're all terrified of in the 1980s.
The Soviet Union.
The godless communist Soviet Union.
Who are the godless communist Soviet Union?
Who's the godless communist today?
Look at what will justify anything.
We will justify anything in the name of freedom and inclusion and democracy.
Interesting, to say the least.
Joel Berry writing, the media is trying to report that Tim Walls retired before he knew his unit was deploying since he retired two months before his unit received alert orders to deploy.
What they're not telling you is that units also received something called warning orders much earlier, months, sometimes years in advance.
Tim Walsh knew his unit was deploying to Iraq, which is why he quit.
A lot of gaslighting going on right now about this.
Here's somebody named Kylie Jane Creamer.
There's a lot of people out there saying now that, and I don't know if this is true, I don't know how true this is, but they're wondering if all of this negative stolen valor press coverage out there about Tim Walz is going to actually cause Kamala to have to pick somebody else, which will show a sign of weakness.
They're also saying maybe The idea that the Democrat Party is unified around Kamala Harris is ridiculous.
They're not.
I know they're doing a bunch of astroturf stuff right now, but I'm talking about the party bosses are clearly not.
They're still jockeying going on.
The convention's next week.
And so a lot of people are saying that maybe Tim Walz might have been a poison pill.
We'll see.
I mean, CNN hosted the debate to end Joe Biden's political career.
Stranger things have happened.
So here is a clip of, let's see, what is this?
This is back in 2007, Representative Kathy Castor introducing Tim Walls.
Let's see here, where did it go?
Do we have this?
Yeah, here it is, right here.
I intend to recognize the sponsor of this thoughtful resolution, but I think it's important for our colleagues to recognize his service as well.
Mr.
Waltz from Minnesota spent 24 years himself in the Army National Guard, so he has had a full life of service to this country.
I don't think he knew when he enlisted at the young age of 17 that he would end up so many years in the Army National Guard.
He also became a teacher.
But achieve the ranking of Command Sergeant Major.
So I'm pleased to recognize Command Sergeant Major Waltz, my friend and colleague from Minnesota, the sponsor of this thoughtful resolution.
For five minutes.
So keep in mind, does that rank accurate?
Achieve the ranking of Command Sergeant Major.
So I'm pleased to recognize Command Sergeant Major.
Yeah, so that rank apparently is not accurate.
And this is a part of it.
People are saying, look, this is a part of the congressional record.
They've literally put lies into the official congressional record.
And Sergeant Major Waltz, my friend and colleague from Minnesota, the sponsor of this thoughtful resolution.
For five minutes.
Without objection.
Thank you, Mr.
Speaker, and I thank the gentlewoman from Florida for her kind words, and I thank the gentleman from Minnesota for his many years of leadership in his service also, and to the whole Armed Services Committee for this important legislation.
I'm urging my colleagues, which I'm sure it will not take a lot of urging, this House of Representatives understands this resolution, House Concurrent Resolution 185, has recognized the incredible contributions Courage and sacrifice of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the National Guard that they have given to our nation.
In July of 2007, July of 2005, excuse me, members of the 134th Brigade Combat Team of the famed Red Bull Division were notified of their deployment.
Twenty-two months later, in July of 2007, they began returning home after a 22-month deployment.
As my colleague from Minnesota said, contributions, courage and sacrifice of the 1st Brigade Combat Team of the National Guard that they have given to our nation.
In July of 2007, July of 2005, excuse me, members of the 134th grade combat team of the famed Red Bull division were notified of their deployment.
22 months later, in July of 2007, they began returning home after a 22 month deployment.
As my colleague from Minnesota said, they had no intention or no knowledge that they would be setting a record.
They simply said yes when they were called upon.
They simply said yes when they were called upon.
People are seizing on that.
Then, ironically, Walt states, you heard, they simply said yes when they were called upon.
This is in the official congressional record.
Congresswoman Castor, do you wish to correct the record?
How can anyone claim this man is not guilty of stolen valor?
Then we have this.
This one, to me, is this one where, if you don't know military terminology, you would think that this guy was a combat veteran.
I spent 24 years in the National Guard, some of that full-time.
I was an artilleryman.
I deployed in support of Operation Bearing Freedom.
My battalion provided base security throughout the European theater from Turkey to England in the early stages of the war in Afghanistan.
And that same battalion is now in Iraq at this time.
Yeah, that same battalion is now in Iraq without me.
Unbelievable.
Yes, Stolen Valor, and then even CNN. Okay, so even CNN, last we'll say on this, even CNN is calling into question the military service of Tim Walz.
Walz did make a comment speaking to a group, he's done it a couple of times, where he has used language that has suggested that he carried weapons in a fighting situation.
As you know, with your contact with the military, I know from coming from a military family, There is a difference between being in a combat area, being involved at a time of war, and actually being in a position where people are shooting at you.
There is no evidence that at any time Governor Walz was in a position of being shot at, and some of his language could easily be seen to suggest that he was.
So that is absolutely false when he said that about gun rights out there.
Yeah, so we'll see what happens.
Let me know what you think.
Sound off in the comments.
My name is Paul Harrell.
This is the Millstone Report.
Feel free to follow me over on X, please, at RealPaulHarrell.
We're going to take a break.
Don't go anywhere.
We're back here in just a moment.
I can imagine what can be and be unburdened by what has been.
You know?
What can be unburdened by what has been?
What we can see, what we believe can be unburdened by what has been?
What can be Unburdened by what has been.
What can be unburdened by what has been?
What can be unburdened by what has been.
Where we can be unburdened by where we have been and unburdened by where we are right now.
What can be What can be unburdened What
can be unburdened What can be unburdened by what has been?
been.
What could be unburdened by what had been.
What can be unburdened by what has been.
What can be what should be What can be unburdened by what has been?
What can be unburdened by what has been?
See what can be unburdened by what has been?
What can be.
All right, folks, welcome back.
It's the Beard and Sergeant Coffee Company.
If you want some coffee, I would encourage you to check it out.
Veteran-owned coffee company.
They import coffee beans from around the world, roast them back home in the United States, and they donate a portion of the profits of every bag sold to homes for our troops, where that organization is a 501c3.
And they're trying to rebuild veterans' lives so they can have custom homes.
This is post-9-11 severely injured veterans here.
So they do good work.
It's Costa Rican coffee.
It's got a great, perfect notes of tropical fruits, the perfect acidity to it.
And you should give it a try.
BeardedSargent.com slash Millstone.
That's BeardedSargent.com slash Millstone.
You can save 15% if you use my name, Paul, at checkout.
I would very much appreciate it.
Also, Left Wing Will and the Red Pill, the game that laughs at the left's expense.
Go ahead and go to leftwingwill.com and get the game that laughs at the left's expense.
This is Will.
Will loves to argue without having any facts because he knows so much that just isn't true.
You get to tell Left Wing Will's story.
Play this game with your friends.
You're going to laugh.
It's going to bring you together because really, I mean, the insanity of the left, it needs to be talked about more often.
That's 400 cards in the deck.
All kinds of different combinations to tell Left Wing Will's story.
I promise you're going to love it.
Tomorrow on the program, we'll play a little bit more of it like we do on most Fridays.
Promo code Paul saves you 15%.
Will will get red-pilled.
You've got to play the game and find out.
Anyway, always appreciate you guys so much watching.
So we've been talking about over the last several...
I mean, really on Fridays when we did the big show over...
Over this book Shepherds for Sale.
The fallout still continues.
People are in the big EVA conglomerate, the big EVA operation.
They really don't like being called out.
Again, shepherds for sale, the idea that people who are supposed to be watching over their sheep have actually bought into leftist propaganda.
They've actually, in some cases, taken money from groups funded by George Soros to push things like climate change, to push things like illegal immigration, and make it a gospel issue, to try to tell you that, hey, if you're going to love your neighbor, then you're going to let millions if you're going to love your neighbor, then you're going to let millions of illegals come in, and you're not going to be for border security because that's xenophobic and that's
Hey, if you love your neighbor, you're going to be for climate policies like cap and trade and other, you know, basically communist policies that limit your freedom to be able to provide for you and your family and entire nations.
I read the book in Chapter 1.
It talks about the climate change.
It talks about all of these disastrous policies in Sri Lanka, all of these disastrous policies in Europe that actually bankrupted nations.
And people suffered.
Babies were born underweight.
Antibiotics were not allowed to get into some countries because of the EU and because of their devotion to Gaia worship.
Which is essentially what it is.
Climate change doesn't originate from Christianity.
Climate change originates from people that are terrified of dying.
They're terrified of dying and facing a holy God.
That's where most of the fear comes from.
They want to live long enough to where we could go colonize another planet somewhere.
That's really where it comes from.
And so then they use churches to co-opt and get their congregations to believe that loving your neighbor is to enact communistic climate change policies that actually make people poorer and more vulnerable.
people.
It impoverishes people.
Think about how inverted and sick that is.
Think about how inverted, where you've got the climate change policies, through the EPA and stuff, they've enacted a lot of them here, but not like over in Europe.
Not like over in Europe where they have way fewer rights and they're being subjugated in half for a very long time by the European Union.
That's what the whole Brexit thing was about.
The European Parliament.
Actual representation of the citizenry.
So...
It's just sick to me to think of some, you know, Sri Lanka baby being born underweight without access to antibiotics because of climate change policies.
And over in America, we've got big evangelical groups and associations and churches and church leaders and pastors and parachurch ministries who are trying to convince, they're writing books, they're doing blog posts, trying to convince people, I think about climate change every day, is what one Gavin Ortlin says.
Trying to convince people that this is the way to love your neighbor when your neighbor or other people across the world are suffering under the policies you're advocating here.
That is an inversion that is just evil.
It just is.
There's no other way around it.
And so the people who have been called to carpet, they're called on the carpet of this, the people who have, they're reading Megan Basham's book and they're trying to find anything they can to say, oh, you see, she didn't source this quite right.
She didn't do this quite right.
To try to keep the average pew sitter from reading this and validating what they've been feeling in their gut.
Many average lay people in churches across the country have thought this has been going on for a very long time.
Something doesn't feel right.
Because they're taking the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and they're adding things to it.
And so when people gather and their pastor starts talking about, you know, things that aren't about the worship of Christ, but instead are about adding all of these other things to it, people are starting to say, I don't get it.
When pastors start to say...
There's a third way.
We can rise above the right and the left.
And again, we all know that when you're voting, it's always about a lesser of two evils.
But the epidemic of pastors punching to the right and hugging to the left, coddling the left while punching the right...
All because it's some evangelical strategy because they want to somehow water down the message to make leftists feel more comfortable in their congregations.
It's been going on for a very long time.
And Megan Basham calls them out on it, calls them dead to rights, has them dead to rights, and they are squirming.
They are squirming.
And so there's some fallout from it.
We're going to go over it right now.
The first thing I want you to listen to is...
A guy by the name of John Harris.
John Harris is...
He's got a great podcast, by the way.
He has got a podcast called Conversations That Matter.
He directed the 1607 Project, but more importantly, he authored a book four years ago that he was really kind of excoriated for called Social Justice Goes to Church.
So you could say that this guy's book, John Harris' book...
It was certainly a precursor to Megan Basham's book.
John Harris' book paved the way, in a way, for what Megan Basham did with Shepherds for Sale.
But this is what John says is now going to happen to Megan Basham, or anybody that supports what Megan Basham has done with her book Shepherds for Sale, how pastors traded the truth for leftist propaganda.
Saul Alinsky in Rules for Radicals said to pick your target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it, which is exactly how Big Eva is treating Megan Basham right now.
And this is the same treatment I've gotten, it's the same treatment Stephen Wolf has gotten, Russell Fuller, and others who pose an actual threat and challenge to Big Eva and their power.
Really, the ultimate objective here is to marginalize Megan Basham and to make her a pariah so that anyone who defends her, who thinks the questions she's asking are illegitimate or the statements that she's making need to be looked into, they are now going to be viewed with an air of suspicion.
It's to make it so people back away from her, don't endorse her works, don't associate with her, and if they do those things, they will be punished.
They will not be Part of the Big Eva Guild.
If you'll notice, there are people out there who are saying they're conservative and they're objective and all these things, but they're not going to follow these leads.
They're not going to ask these questions.
They're not going to go down these rabbit holes because they are dependent on Big Eva in some way.
It's an industry, it's more like a mob, and it's corrupt.
That's very well said.
It's an industry, it's more like a mob, and it's corrupt.
And that right there is the...
That really is...
That's the nerve that they've hit.
Because so many of the guys and girls who've accepted the lies of the left and have taken all of this information and then repackaged it, making it palatable to this congregation or that congregation, they all run in the same circles.
And so, corruption is exactly the proper term to use here, and it really applies to all of their little parachurch ministry organizations that are, in some cases, being funded directly by George Soros money or other leftist money, but in other cases, it's just people that...
To me, I believe it's a lot of people who just are leftists.
I think there's a lot of ministers who just believe in leftism.
I mean, it's not that they've been...
Many of them have been duped.
But I think many of them...
I mean, they don't want to admit they've been duped.
So they're converts now.
I mean, they are converts.
And they believe that they're...
What they've really done is they've worked to carve out a space where they can exist with their modern political ideas that are actually not biblical.
So these policy goals of the left that are actually not biblical...
But they want to be able to have them for whatever reason, whether they actually believe them or whether they know that believing these things gets them into the cocktail parties or gets them a seat at the cultural table, so they're not one of those fundamentalist Christians.
There's a lot of different reasons why, but I think fundamentally this has been about carving out.
Back in the 90s, with the rise of the religious right, you had a...
You had people, and I believe rightfully so, so there were some people that believed that God's kingdom and America were synonymous, right?
You know, and that's certainly not the case.
That's not to say that you can't have Christian families.
That's not to say that you can't have a Christian school.
That's not to say that you can't have a Christian city, a Christian county, a Christian state, or a Christian nation.
But there's nothing salvific about that.
You can't just have a Christian nation and everybody is saved.
That's not what I'm saying.
But back in the 90s, there was this correction that we needed to do.
Be like, hey, whoa, whoa, whoa.
God's kingdom and America's kingdom are separate.
Or America is underneath, way down here from God and His kingdom.
And, you know, people were making, maybe in hindsight, maybe there didn't need to be a correction made, but there was.
Okay, there was this correction.
And so the overcorrection has now been to run into the arms of the left.
The overcorrection has now been to say, well, maybe there's this third way.
Where we can somehow rise above it all, but rise above it practically is sticking your head in the sand and ignoring the wickedness of the culture and ignoring that Christians do in fact need to come together to stop it.
With the political rights that we have been given to steward for our kids.
Oh no, that's getting too political.
Oh no!
No, no, no, we don't need to do that.
We don't need...
And again, in this case, no one's talking about making that a part of your Sunday sermon, necessarily.
We're just talking about the fact that naturally, if you are a Christian, and this is just truth, because Protestant political thought has always been right-wing, naturally, if you're a Christian and you believe in Jesus...
You're going to be on the right of the political spectrum.
You just are, because you're going to love the things that God loves over time through a sanctification process, and you're going to hate the things that God hates.
So that's just going to naturally put you on the right of the political spectrum.
And that's a self-evident truth, but there are some that don't want that to be the case for some reason, because they've bought into this idea that politics is taboo.
You're not supposed to talk about religion and politics.
The truth of the matter is, when you talk about politics, you should have to talk about religion.
You should have to.
And this is why the Founding Fathers thought religious tests in order to run for office were okay.
Because who wants somebody ruling over you that doesn't believe in God?
That's crazy!
That's crazy.
Who wants somebody ruling over you that doesn't believe that they're accountable, that there's a right and wrong, and they don't need to do things to other people that are evil.
They don't need to hate them.
They don't need to steal from them.
They don't need to unjustly persecute them.
Who wants somebody ruling over you that is not a Christian, doesn't believe in God?
So this also gets into the whole idea of not wanting to recognize the rotten fruits of secularism.
But the bottom line is this.
Megan Basham's book, Shepherds for Sale, the precursor to its social justice goes to church, is exposing a real problem that we have, which is leftist infiltration of the church's.
And it's been going on for too long and people need to be called out by it.
Here is John Harris back right before his book, Social Justice Goes to Church, was released.
And listen, does this sound familiar to you?
If you're like most Christians in 2020, you are living a normal life, going to church.
And all of a sudden, terms like critical race theory, intersectionality, social justice, white privilege, white fragility, things you had never heard before became part of the vocabulary you heard at your church, or your missions organization, or your denomination.
I've heard these words for a few years now in seminary and then in Christian institutions, and I wanted to know how in the world did the social justice movement, the neo-Marxist movement with a different gospel, it's a gospel of grievance, not a gospel of grace, how did this get in to the evangelical church?
So I started doing some research.
And what I found was quite interesting.
Evangelical social justice warriors from the 1970s, like Richard Mao and Ron Seider and Jim Wallace and others, were raised in conservative evangelical homes.
And ended up picking up ideas in high school and college that were social justice driven.
At that time the term used was the new left.
They picked up new left ideas, neo-Marxist ideas, and they brought them back into their churches.
And they made a lot of headway, especially with the Chicago Declaration of 1973 and the Lazane Covenant in 1974.
And then something happened.
Jimmy Carter became president.
And because of the failure of Jimmy Carter's presidency, with evangelicals especially, a populist movement called the Religious Right rose in American society, and the media covered it, and they made great political gains.
And you never heard about the evangelical left.
But they were still working.
They were still working behind the scenes, in academic circles, in places that you may not have been familiar with in your normal everyday life.
Well, we are familiar now because this movement is affecting our normal everyday life.
We hear the terminology.
We hear it coming out of the mouths of even pastors that we once respected.
And people like Ron Sider and Richard Mao and Jim Wallace have influenced a new generation of evangelicals.
People like Tim Keller and David Platt and Russell Moore and others have picked up these ideas, but they didn't just pick up these ideas from neo-Marxists in the secular world.
They also picked them up from the original progressive evangelicals.
And so for me this has been a very beneficial study and I think it will be a beneficial study for you in trying to understand why in the world did neo-Marxism come into the church?
What kind of logic was used to justify this false social justice gospel?
I explain it.
I show you the history of it.
The book comes out October 6th.
It's called Social Justice Goes to Church the New Left in Modern American Evangelicalism and I hope It blesses you as much as researching and writing it has blessed me.
You can go to Amazon.com.
You can order it there or pre-order now.
God bless.
Again, that was, you know, four years ago, Social Justice Goes to Church.
And here's John Harris, where he posted that video a day or so ago.
He says, Social Justice Goes to Church came out four years ago.
I remember evangelicals online tearing me apart that year, saying I was a liar motivated by racism, didn't give the benefit of the doubt, hated women and homosexuals, etc.
I even got a death threat I considered calling the police about.
This week feels like vindication because of Megan Basham's book.
This book has stood the test of time.
If you want to know the story of how social justice thinking made its way into evangelical institutions, if you want to know what motivates people like Tim Keller, David Platt, Russell Moore, J.D. Greer, and others, J.D. Greer, who said the Bible just whispers about sexual sin, if you want to understand how the religious right became the religious center left, pick up a copy.
It's part of the next steps after reading Shepherds for Sale.
So, yeah, I think he's exactly right here.
Now, that's really, that stands out.
If you want to understand how the religious right became the religious center-left, that is, yeah, it wasn't an overcorrection, or maybe we should have just kept our nose to the grindstone with the religious right.
Because out of that, you also had...
Out of the center religious right, you had the fear rise up of cultural Christianity.
Maybe cultural Christianity is not a good thing.
I'll tell you right now, it 100% is a good thing.
People say, well, maybe cultural Christianity is not a good thing because there's people that are walking around thinking they're Christians, but maybe they're really not, but they're benefiting from this Christian society.
Hey, for my child, cultural Christianity is 100% better.
It's better for your own Christian children to...
Live in a world where the lowest common, like, it's just assumed that Christianity is the norm.
Way better for your kids to grow up in than what's going on right now.
Like, come on.
No brainer.
It's incredible.
Anyway, good stuff.
Really good stuff.
We're going to continue the fallout.
Here's more fallout from Megan Basham's book.
Somebody named Jason Cecil says, For the last five years...
Tell me if this doesn't resonate with you, an average churchgoer out there.
For the last five years, I have come away from the Southern Baptist Convention's annual meeting feeling beat up, talked down to, chastised, and most of all gaslit by the platform.
I was told my viewpoint was causing division, that I was not a good Christian because I saw things differently than the approved narrative.
Even when I pointed out obvious leftward drift, I was gaslit to not believe my lying eyes that I was being uncharitable.
Yet, the platform had no issues treating those like me uncharitably.
I am far—that's what a—that's what a— We're going to punch to the right, going to hug to the left.
It's those that are bringing up the objections from the right saying, you guys are wrong.
Oh, you're not being charitable to us.
It only goes one way.
The grace only goes one way, and that's to make things more liberal, to make more excuses for why the Bible doesn't really mean what you think it means there.
That's the only real way.
It's always to get more and more liberal.
It's never to be charitable to those that want to be more orthodox, that want to actually go back to the way the church has interpreted the scripture for the last 1900 years.
It's never charitable towards those people.
It's only critical towards us who are trying to call them out.
And there just also happens to be a lot of money on the line if you adopt the left-wing presuppositions.
He says, those who are nitpicking at individual quotes about Megan Basham's book are failing to see the hole that is obvious.
Those of us who have taken one admonition after another these past several years, my concerns, Megan's concerns about leftward theological drift are legitimate.
Let the conversation be about that.
I no longer, I will no longer be emotionally manipulated into staying silent.
And this right here, I will no longer be emotionally manipulated into staying silent, is what those who are critical of Megan Basham's book fear the most.
Average pew sitters saying, asking the question, Is my shepherd for sale?
That's what they're worried about.
And this, one more from John Harrison, we've got to go.
This perfectly encapsulates the criticism of Megan Basham's book by those who don't want pew sitters, average churchgoers, to read it.
Neil Shenvey, one of the key critics.
So John Harris, in jest, jokingly says, How can Megan Basham say Bill Clinton supports abortion when he said it should be safe, legal, and rare?
Neil Shenvey, probably.
These are the types of criticisms that they are launching.
They are really just working themselves in a notch.
You have to do vast mental gymnastics to poke holes in Megan Basham's book.
We're dealing with people that are not operating in good faith.
That is clear now because they'll post something that when you read it, you're like, well, that affirms what Megan Basham actually wrote.
They're like, no, actually it doesn't.
And people who already have their minds made up on Christian Twitter, you're not really convincing anybody.
But this is now on the New York Times.
Megan Basham's book has now made it to the New York Times bestseller list.
So it's selling gangbusters.
Everybody's reading it.
It's a great time to be alive, folks.
It's a great time to be alive.
It really is.
Tomorrow on the program, if we have time, we'll go over this post here.
So there's a lot of AstroTurf going on.
Brian Krasenstein saying that this Wisconsin rally for Kamala Harris was huge.
You see the large crowd there.
Temple saying, this is why the Krasensteins are evil.
The full context is that Bon Ivor is playing at the event.
So people are actually, this is the second time now people turn out, fill up a stadium to see Megan Thee Stallion, and then they leave when Kamala takes the stage.
So this is the only way Kamala's getting these big crowds, is to have people who are musicians and already big celebrities to do it.
We'll talk more about that, that AstroTurf.
Also, they're trying to buy TikTokers.
And also, people think that they're using AI. Some of these images that you're seeing about the big Kamala crowds may be, in fact, AI and not real.
We'll dive into that.
We'll do all of that tomorrow.
On the program.
It's also going to be Friday.
So when I see you again, unless I am providentially hindered, I'm going to see you tomorrow and I'm going to be wishing you a happy Friday.
My name is Paul Harrell.
Follow me on Twitter at RealPaulHarrell and I'll see you tomorrow night.
▲
Export Selection