If you've read Megan Basham's Shepherds for Sale you might know how deep this rot goes.
The Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) is tied up in one heck of a political web, especially when it comes to their political lobbying arm, the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (ERLC)
It's recently come to light that the ERLC has partnered with the Evangelical Immigration Table (EIT), which gets its talking points and marching orders from the George Soros-funded National Immigration Forum (NIF).
Some of us are finally asking, "Why?"
From David Mitzenmacher, associate pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Coral Gables, Florida:
Yes, this Soros-funded Immigration Forum memo gives instructions, in an effort to undermine Trump's support among evangelicals, on how to manipulate Christians.
Let's start by looking at the instructions it gave covert operatives on immigration.
A typical secular message focuses on how unfair the current immigration system is and the harm it causes to immigrants and legitimacy is given to the message through giving voice to immigrants themselves.
A standard EIT message often begins with credentialing of a shared faith (whether or not the person is an immigrant), tells the story of immigrant families trying to survive and stay together and always includes references to scripture as morally authoritative.
Translation: Use Christianity as a hollowed-out skin suit to push far-left politics.
The EIT message starts by shifting the primary locus of authority from the federal government to religious beliefs and understanding of the Bible. It switches understanding of loyalty from being based in sharing a country of origin to sharing a common faith. It emphasizes the sanctity of the family and importance of maintaining that basic institution.
Once connection has been established with these core moral intuitions, we have found white evangelicals far more receptive to other fact based, policy oriented and even "fairness" and "harm" messaging.
They'd slip a sliver of truth, or sometimes just phrases that evangelicals gobble up unthinkingly, and pair it with a gallon of poison.
They did this to manipulate specific audiences they target, such as "Beth Moore women" or short-term missionaries or child-sponsors, because they know that these groups can be easily manipulated by their language.
Here is another example from the memo that discusses how to successfully propagandize Christians to the left-wing view of "rights."
As another example, arguments for immigrant 'rights' don't often resonate with conservatives. Many liberals believe in an idea of 'universal human rights'. Governments should be evaluated for their legitimacy based upon their effectiveness of attaining and protecting these rights. However, many conservatives believe that 'rights' are a construct of a nation state and when the sovereignty of that nation state is challenged or threatened than the very basis of being able to provide for any rights at all is also under attack.
So when a conservative hears talk of 'rights' they immediately think of one of the foundational aspects of the nation that provides them with rights, the border. Talking about 'rights' can often make a conservative feel more deeply about the need to protect the border in order to maintain their own rights.
However, many conservatives hold correlated ideas. They might not resonate with universal human rights but they do with the idea of the 'image of God' being present in every human being and ensuring that every person is treated with dignity. For conservatives, the institution of marriage and their religious tradition also pre-exist the state. In areas where they feel the state fails to uphold and protect those institutions, they question the state's legitimacy.
Very crafty, subversive, and wicked.
(But we're talking about Soros' Open Society types, so what did you expect?)
And yet ... the question is not why Soros' pals were doing this, but why the ERLC allowed this propaganda to be shared with Southern Baptists for years.
Lifeway, if you aren't aware, is more than just a former bookstore. They are the SBC entity in charge of publishing Sunday School curriculum. They help determine the direction of teaching in thousands of SBC churches. Their studies influence what they believe "needs" to be taught to Southern Baptists.
And THEY'RE being targeted by Soros too.
The subversion here runs deep and runs back for years.
Southern Baptists deserve answers and accountability.
Now.
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