“I Am Not So Convicted” Karen Swallow Prior Doubles Down on Attending Heretical Festival

Staff Writer

Last week, we shared that prominent critic of evangelical boogymen, Karen Swallow Prior, was announced as a speaker at the Wild Goose Festival, taking her place at the storied event that is half-part Burning Man and half-part Harrowing of Hell, populated by heretics who’d just as soon smoked weed rolled in bible pages than preach from it.  

Since its inception, the Wild Goose Festival has garnered a reputation as a hotbed of heresy, attracting both budding and seasoned progressive “Christians” who have cast off the boundaries of traditional beliefs. The festival’s lineup reads like a who’s who of wild-eyed heretics and pagan witches, almost entirely populated by those who claim Christ and then revel in the blasphemies and doctrines of demons. 

If it involves punching Jesus in the face and urinating on his limp body, metaphorically and theologically speaking, they’re all lined up with brass knuckles and 32oz Stanley water bottles filled to the brim.

Yet Swallow is right along with them, giving a talk on “Evangelicalism and Social Imaginaries” while across the hall, other speakers are teaching why the scriptures say it’s ok to be in a polyamorous relationship, finding the divine in magic mushrooms and psychedelics, how to be a better pro-abortion activist, why the Bible is fake and can’t be trusted, and why God is a non-binary entity who prefers she/her pronouns (Those are real lectures) 

When pressed about how she could attend this event in good conscience, given it’s a blaspheme-fest, Swallow completely misses the point of concern, offering:

Clearly, Swallow doesn’t care about prohibitions against such associations, which would essentially consists of nearly every speaker.  

But now I am writing to you that you must not associate with anyone who claims to be a brother or sister but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or slanderer, a drunkard or swindler. Do not even eat with such people. What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked person from among you.” 1 Corinthians 5:11-13

This is not a matter of attending a Christian conference with other Christians who disagree on secondary or tertiary issues, but attending a ‘Christian conference’ where half of the people openly repudiate primary issues and really, really hate Jesus despite pretending to love him. 

For this reason, Protestia will donate $2500 to a (biblical) church of Karen’s choice if she gets up on stage during her message at the reprobate Wild Goose Festival and prophetically rebukes the false gospel and countless heresies being insisted upon by enumerable false teachers at the event, calling them out by name for their evil deeds and exposing them for the two-fold sons of hell that they are.

Because we can’t think of a single biblical reason to go to such a wretched and blasphemous event if you’re not going to do at least that, unless you’re not as far away from them as people think.