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The Sean Feucht Story
For the first part of this story, click this link, and then come back for more!
I hate to be someone who doesn’t let something go, but I have been following the Sean Feucht story for the last week, and it just keeps getting better.
First the best news: Sean blocked me on Twitter, because he’s a liar and a coward. When confronted with his lies, he ran away instead of answering very clear questions about his integrity.
New & More Favorable
When we left off, Sean had released an e-mail that he claimed was a contract, but was in fact, just a deal memo1. His complaint was that Harper Collins had in fact, reneged on their deal with him, breaking their contract over his “political beliefs”. The whole thing smelled fishy, so once I did some digging, I came to some pretty logical conclusions, the most important of which is Sean Feucht is lying.
And the second conclusion I would like to highlight is the first one that I made - He didn’t like the offer. Let me point out some very telling language in his most recent announcement:
What’s the telling language? “New & more favorable”.
This means one thing and one thing only: He didn’t like the deal he was offered from Harper Collins, so he shopped around and found something better for him. I don’t fault him for that. If you can make more money somewhere else, who wouldn’t do that?
But that’s not what I take issue with. I take issue with the dishonesty. He’s lying. He lied about being “cancelled”, he lied about how his deal with Harper Collins fell through2, and proceeded to go on his own “I’m being persecuted” media tour, appearing on various television shows3 where his claims were only echoed, not challenged. In turn, Regnery, a conservative book publisher who publishes books by such paragons of virtue as Pat Robertson, signed him to a deal.
Again, I don’t care if Sean got paid more money for his book at a niche publisher. More power to him. What I do care about is that he isn’t telling the truth as to how he got there. He manipulated his gullible fan base to drum up support, and now he can play up his “victimhood” all the way through an inevitable book tour, further lining his pockets, all in the name of God.
Well, my Bible says one thing about who the Father of Lies is. And it isn’t God. And my Bible also says something about sin finding you out. (It’s in the book of Numbers - a book that I’m sure Sean hasn’t read, he probably skimmed over it because the Old Testament doesn’t seem to matter to his NAR4 folk - they want Book of Acts kind of stuff, even if it means faking a few miracles to get there.) Eventually something will leak, the truth of the entire exchange with Harper Collins. Or, Sean will just have to answer to God for how horribly he misrepresented Him here on Earth. Ideally he will repent and come forward to apologize.
Closing Thought
I write all this to say, if you’re a Christian, and if you’re a conservative, don’t align yourself with Sean Feucht. Mark and avoid this charlatan, who is only out for his own gain, and not advancing the Kingdom of God.
And, if any good has come from this, I found my new favorite meme:
Hopefully this is the last time I write about this guy, but who knows. Evil knows no bounds.
A deal memo is not a legally binding contract.
He claimed in multiple interviews that two low level “woke staffers” complained about Harper Collins publishing a book by him, and they caved to them. I’m sorry, but if they believed in the book you were about to write for them, they wouldn’t let two lowly staffers decide it was a bad idea.
Nothing mainstream - CBN, OANN, The Daily Signal, and The Daily Wire, all with distinctly conservative customer bases.
The New Apostolic Reformation - a particularly virulent stream of Charismatic churches, full of faith healers like Todd White and Kenneth Copeland. Their basic belief system is that, through the power of the Holy Spirit, we should be able to perform amazing supernatural feats, even greater than Jesus, who performed His Miracles as “a man right with God”, and not as God Himself. The most egregious example of this is the Wake Up Olive incident, where Bethel Church in Redding, California (where Sean once volunteered as a worship leader), spent over a week praying for a dead toddler to raise from the dead, and failing at it. Instead of repenting, they doubled down on their obviously bad theology, with false prophecies about Donald Trump winning the 2020 election, and the end of COVID-19 within weeks of the pandemic beginning. They’re bad news - So Sean fits right in.
It seems odd that he not only got another deal pretty quickly, but that it's already available for pre-order. It's almost as if he had a few offers on the table. 🤔