How Cultural Institutions Get Compromised
T.REX TALK6 Elo 2024

How Cultural Institutions Get Compromised

If you look at recent American History, you can see some amazing technical successes, some incredible economic achievements, but also an unmistakable trend of cultural decline in some institutions. Have our academic bulwarks, entertainment studios, and political entities gotten this bad by accident? Or on purpose? Let's have a look at a single institution that is being infiltrated in real-time: the American church.

The book that we are discussing is "Shepherds for Sale" by Megan Basham, which documents how liberal think-tanks and NGOs have been funneling money into conservative seminaries and denominations, and what they are getting for their money.

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