Religionless Christianity: Are We Approaching the End of Time?

July 19, 2024

This Religionless Christianity: God’s Answer to Evil excerpt is from chapter eleven: Are We Approaching the End of Time?

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Many of us have now and again wondered over the decades what the antichrist system prophesied in Scripture might look like if it came into being in our lifetimes. Some were influenced by such books as Hal Lindsey’s The Late Great Planet Earth, or perhaps by David Wilkerson’s The Vision. But what these men and others described in the 1970s seemed so extreme and implausible that, as easy as it was for us to be terrified by their thoughts, it was even easier to dismiss them as febrile hysteria. At that time, cell phones and the internet were more than twenty-five years in the future. We were in a Cold War with the Soviet Union. And yet, as with the prophecies of secular seers such as Alex Jones, the seemingly outlandish visions sketched out for us by those such as Lindsey and Wilkerson have rather recently and very quickly become stunningly plausible, if not outright actualities.

To quote the cliché, the unthinkable has suddenly become thinkable. What a moment ago seemed a fever dream is now the news
of the day. The utter moral breakdown that people like Wilkerson prophesied seemed so far beyond our ken that it was impossible to do anything but ignore it at the time. Nonetheless, as we know today, men dressed as women writhe with sexual suggestiveness in public, sometimes on parade floats with children watching, and sometimes at much closer quarters. More than that, their apologists insist that everyone must celebrate these nightmares as a logical extension of those liberties that began with our Founding and continued with the abolition of slavery and the suffragist and civil rights movements. If this weren’t the furthest extreme of madness, parents wishing to seem “progressive” have successfully been persuaded into thinking it the height of open-mindedness to subject their innocent young children to these disturbing spectacles.

The idea seems to be that we must all become dulled to the natural repulsion we feel toward such things as part of our “reeducation” toward something. But what? What plausible future can such things portend? In any case, anything once thought wholesome or normal or normative or good or laudable must now be spat upon as despicable. Many of the confused and broken human beings involved in these public behaviors often seem to go to considerable lengths to ally themselves with the openly demonic, as though to inure everyone not merely to the sexual confusion but to the demonic itself. But who has decided that we are all to gallop along in this Gadarene mob?

Of course, much of our own government and even our military have bowed to these idols. Corporate America has cravenly joined this chorus, waving their increasingly and perplexingly complex “pride” flags with far greater enthusiasm than any patriot ever waved the Stars and Stripes. The most predictably “transgressive” brands, such as Balenciaga, have employed openly satanic designers for whom the aggressively wicked sexualization of children has obviously been intentional, with little blowback from the high-end sophisticates who shop there (or wish they could) and for whom nothing can ever be shocking. But even so-called mainstream retailers such as Target have gone along with this evil, pushing transgender ideology in their children’s departments and even hiring designers who are unapologetically pushing explicitly satanic images. Brands that were once the most “American” and mainstream—such as Disney and Anheuser-Busch—have done precisely the same. It seems almost impossible that these things can be true, and yet they are well documented for anyone not yet convinced. No sane person could imagine these things actually happening even a few years ago, and of course those pushing against them by standing up for the most basic ideas such as the importance of the normative family and protecting the innocence of children are themselves demonized as cruel and censorious bigots, or labeled with any term that might suffice to do the job of demonizing anyone who sees these things for what they are—which is at least child abuse and insanity, and likely openly demonic too, as we have said.

The most basic concepts of our lives for centuries and sometimes for millennia are now challenged as not merely outmoded, but as inherently vile. The fundamental and deeply sensible idea of national borders is suddenly cast as “nationalistic,” as though Adolf Hitler’s racist views once and for all made national pride—and borders and patriotism—the vilest things imaginable. We behave as though what was once the healthy love of one’s country can only exist as the grotesque caricatured version of it. And naturally into this vacuum—as though on cue—“globalism” is shoved forward as the only answer. Instead of sanely accepting George Washington and Abraham Lincoln’s views on patriotism, we are told we must choose either Adolf Hitler’s views or reject national patriotism altogether. And what’s worse is that many in churches and church leadership are silent in the face of this because they are unwilling to be labeled with the pejorative term “Christian nationalist.”

It seems that all of the most radically leftist Marxist ideologies that for decades have bided their time in the shadows of the academy have now suddenly leapt out into the mainstream. They are telling us—shouting at us!—that our children do not belong to us but to the state, that children are sexual beings and innocence does not exist. They are telling us that the most non-racist human beings are racists nonetheless, simply because of the color of their skin—and that they must therefore somehow be punished for the color of their skin. They have insisted that national borders are not a healthy and prudent notion but simply an excuse to keep our country racially pure, just as Hitler wished to do.

It doesn’t take a person of any real faith to see genuine evil in all these developments. Indeed, increasing numbers of people who have never been churchgoers or Bible readers have begun to say that these things are evil. For what they are witnessing, they have no other categories to which they might repair. And if these things are worth calling “evil,” then the only solution can be God. Many of these formerly agnostic or secular people are, for the first time in their lives, open to the idea of God, and for the
first time in many of their lives actually hoping that He does exist. The horrors all around us are a powerful opportunity for evangelism . . .unless you are going to a church that—like many German churches in the 1930s—has its head in the sand and refuses to acknowledge these things and speak boldly against them.

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