Palin: Apostasy on Display

I believe it was last fall I was working up in New York State and when I'm up that way I will sometimes listen to an Evangelical radio station out of Buffalo. I get a kick out of listening to 'Through the Bible' with J Vernon McGee. He reminds me of my late grandparents who were devoted listeners for many decades.

The station also runs James Dobson's new show Family Talk which is his Focus on the Family re-boot, the show he started after his own organisation ran him out in 2009. I've never liked Dobson but from time to time I would listen to Focus just to hear what they were saying and what was being talked about. This was especially true in the late 1990's and early 2000's as he was a leading voice for the Right, a propagandist and certainly a warmonger. I don't listen to his new show because it's not on my local Evangelical station or at least not at a time I'm likely to catch it.

This particular day that I happened to be listening, he had Sarah Palin on which I must confess made me groan a bit. I am tired of the sound of her voice. She had tried to make a brief comeback riding on the coat-tails of Donald Trump but her endorsement speech was such a bizarre rambling mess that even he seemed perplexed. Since then she's been nothing more than fodder for the tabloids.

Dobson was clearly trying to give her a boost. Her subscription based streaming channel is apparently not much of a success as she all but hinted that finances were ailing a bit. Her recent divorce also cast her in a less than stellar light. Dobson was clearly taken with her and wanted to boost her profile, steer people to her channel and website and encourage some political or media doors to open up for her. All to no avail. It would seem that just about everyone has had enough of Sarah Palin. Or perhaps unlike Dobson who still holds her in some kind of esteem, most have realised she's a phony and of less than average intelligence and capability. I've always believed her Christianity to be little more than opportunism.

And then I saw this link:

https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2020/03/12/Masked-Singer-Sarah-Palin-performs-Baby-Got-Back-as-the-Bear/8851584018010/

I've never watched Masked Singer but I've heard of it and it would be bad enough that she would stoop to appearing on the show with its wretched and depraved panel as well as its clearly immoral tone. But then for her to do this? To perform that song? I remember well when that song came out. It got a lot of attention because of its R-rated explicit lyrics and then there was the video that accompanied it on MTV. And there she was belting the dirty song out with no shame, body gestures included.

I think it was Alan Thicke's son who said something about having 'seen it all' now. Indeed. Who would have thought?

I wonder why this isn't all over the Christian news sites? It seems like Christian Post is practically tripping over itself to announce some Christian's presence on a popular show. There have been endless articles about this or that person on 'The Bachelor'... as if any Christian would even consider being on a show like that.

I guess even with their impossibly low bar when it comes to morality and theology.... Sarah Palin has fallen below that. Strutting around on stage singing lyrics about a guy who sexually craves curvaceous women is (it would seem) a bit too much.

Palin herself cuts a fairly pathetic figure. An unabashed narcissist, she is so desperate for attention, so desperate to recapture that 'high' of fame and fortune she experienced between 2008-2010 that she just can't let it go. I'm sure she was nicely compensated to appear on the show. But of course there's a word that's used for someone who sells herself for money.

What's next? How low can she go? Will Christian leaders finally come out and properly and publically rebuke her? If not for this, just what would it take for the Evangelical community to finally say 'enough'? By all standards she is now an 'immoral' woman and should have no voice. And yet I have no doubt the likes of James Dobson will stand by her.

The movement that once ostensibly stood for morality (but never actually did) has abandoned all pretense and form. They were always wolves, always in it for the money and the power and they can't hide it anymore. Some of us realised this decades ago and hoped that events over the past couple of decades would wake up everyone else and there would be a reaction. Sadly that doesn't seem to be the case.

Watch the Palin video and understand... this is called functional apostasy.

And it's the same spirit that reigns right now in Evangelical circles, a spirit that has produced parents that allow their daughters to shack up with pagan boyfriends and then at some point marry them... but it's okay as long as they don't work at a restaurant where alcohol is sold or a store where they might have to sell cigarettes. It's not the best move but hey, it's okay because their bogus understanding of salvation has effectively communicated that faith is little more than a one-time event, a get out of jail free card. You can live how you want without any real or eternal consequence. Christ doesn't have to be Lord of your life.

I say this because I keep running into it and you're left wondering what has happened? When did things change? And then I see Sarah Palin and the trajectory that's been at work over the past few decades provides the answer. You cannot serve God and mammon.

This movement has lost its mind and lost its way.