24 Sleeps 'Til Not Christmas
Post-Christianity is nothing to celebrate
Happy December!
I hope it’s been a fruitful 2025 for you.
Our Christmas tree is up (“seasonal festive fir” if you believe our grocery store), and, living in Europe, we’re avoiding all Christmas markets that don’t have “diversity barriers” to keep cult members from running over our children.
Of course, there’s very little in the way of proof that the Prince of Peace was actually born on December 25th.
There’s even less proof that his name was actually Jesus.
Or that he was a wood carpenter.
Those are three of the six myths that I cover in a recent article I wrote for Christianity magazine.
Enjoy:
https://www.premierchristianity.com/features/6-myths-about-jesus-debunked/20540.article
Is Post-Christianity Just Hell By Another Name?
The erasure of Christ from Christmas and Christianity from politics and Jesus from culture and the Kingdom of God from the empires of man is beginning to show itself for the nightmare that it is.
Imagine if an army of poisonous mushrooms cut down a beautiful ancient tree…
…then spent the next century gloating about how great the Mushroom Empire is, despite deriving all their nutrients from the rotting tree…
…then, when the tree has been sucked dry and the mushroom colony is starting to wither, they blame the tree for all their problems.
That’s post-Christianity.
Or we could picture it in photographic form.
I can’t get this image out of my head:
That’s post-Christianity.
Kill something beautiful.
Board up its exterior so it can never be accessed again.
Then parasitically build a rent-extracting tower on its solid bones.
There’s a spiritual parasitism at play whenever another religion, cult, or belief lives off the benefits that a thousand years of belief in God produces, while rejecting the beliefs that created the only civilization worth living in.
Pre-Christ: Slavery and serfdom and poverty for nearly all; no rights for women, children, or the poor.
Since-Christ: The least amount of slavery and poverty per capita in human history, the most amount of rights and freedoms for the most amount of people in human history, and growth in the direction of total redemption.
Post-Christ: A slow descent back to pre-Christ.
As pastor Mark Sayers describes it, “People want the Kingdom without the King.”
Post-Christianity As Diminishment
Imagine the most perfect statue in history.
Of the risen Christ.
A gigantic statue, one hundred feet high and twenty feet wide.
Now imagine each generation took that statue and re-carved it in their image.
With each passing generation, the statue shrinks in size and beauty.
Soon, it’s a hideous, disfigured, microscopic blob.
Instead of preserving and protecting and stewarding the original beauty, now we’re left worshiping dust.
Down is called up, bad is called good, wrong is called right, insanity is called sanity, and that which is ugly is called beautiful.
Words lose all meaning.
Everything is a lie.
Money is devalued.
Buildings become hideous.
Art becomes anti-art.
All is stripped of meaning, purpose, and direction.
Life grows cold without the lamp of love.
But there’s a star.
A star.
Dancing in the night.
A child.
A child.
Sleeping in the night.
He will bring us goodness and light.
He will bring us goodness.
And light.