If you haven’t seen it yet, Richard Dawkins made quite the statement in a recent interview. In responding to the growth of Islam in England and Europe he admitted, wistfully, that he misses the charm of Christendom. Here is what he said:
We find before us, class, a helpful little lesson for us mere mortals. Secularists have claimed for a long time that there is no supernatural powers (divine or malevolent) out there. So, imagine their shock when they grab a live outlet and find that there are indeed powers and principalities. This is precisely what is happening. Christ’s reign holds Satan at bay; the dragon is bound in regards to his ability to deceive the nations. But this does not mean he doesn’t still prowl looking for a tasty snack of deep fried atheist.
Islam is rushing in upon Europe. Like a spring high tide which catches beachgoers at unawares, the inheritors of Western Civilization are finding out what those sea-walls and levies which they worked hard to tear down were for. The raw and brutal power of Islamic conquest has come upon them. Along with it is an insistence on righteousness by works. These works are defined by the greed, lust, and ambition of the loudest voice interpreting Muhammed. This brutalizing power will soon replace the bells of Christendom with the eery adhan. The atheists and secularists have insisted that human power is enough to save us, and now they find a human power which is more powerful than them, with more fervent will to rule, and greater numbers of offspring. And behind it all is the doctrines of the devils.
So it comes dawning upon them that perhaps the mercy and grace of Christ is actually what made Christendom flourish like the garden of the Lord. Jesus really is the chief cornerstone. But these foolish builders, like the Pharisees before them, rejected Him. And now the find the crushing stone of judgement coming upon them to grind them into dust.
Yet hope is bright, for Christ still reigns. And He reigns over an Islamized Europe. In fact, He reigns over population imploding Japan, too. He reigns over the disputed wheat fields of Ukraine. He reigns over the rainbow painted streets of San Fransisco. He reigns over every bloody temple known as Planned Parenthood in Lower Manhattan. And, my train of thought has left the station we’ll keep it going, Christ even reigns over the nation of Israel.
The point is, Christian Europe must die in order for it to live. It must follow the Savior. And this demands that men like Richard Dawkins must bend his knee and follow Christ’s humility. Jesus humbled Himself so that He might be raised into glory. And if Dawkins wants glory too, he must see that the glory of Christendom which he pines for is found in the humiliation of the God-man 2000 years ago outside of Jerusalem. There, in Him, is all our hope and righteousness. The cross is the spike which will crush the serpent head of Islamic lies. There, in Christ, is the wisdom which all philosophers must ground their thinking upon. Jesus is the Victim which ends victimhood and oppression through the glad tidings of sins forgiven.
Cultural Christianity is downstream from a born again Christianity. And this comes to us as a gift of grace which we receive by faith. The secularists have called deep heaven down upon their heads, and they must now either be crushed by it’s weight, or call out for salvation.
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