Jack Posobiec hosted Christian author Megan Basham on Monday’s episode of Human Events Daily to break down numbers and statistics surrounding the Christian vote in the United States ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Basham authored the newly released book Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda.
Posobiec noted how he has attended various Catholic masses over the weekend, one of which had a priest tell his congregation they should not support either presidential candidate in November. He said that while one is radically pro-abortion, alluding to Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, the other is a “very flawed candidate,” alluding to GOP nominee and former president Donald Trump. When the future of Christian and Catholic churches is at stake at the hands of Merrick Garland, the host can not comprehend why any priest would have this stance.
Basham responded with a shocking statistic that over 100 million Christians are planning to sit out this election and 32 million of those are regular churchgoers, research that was reported by George Barna.
“They’re very motivated, typically, to participate in the political process, and they are now saying that they’re not going to vote, that they’re going to sit out. And that is a really big problem,” she stated, adding that “[Barna] actually said this is showing that their enthusiasm is down from 2020 and part of why that is is he found that 36 percent of churches have not taught anything on the civic duty of a Christian to get involved in the political process.”
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