Much ink has been spilled on the topic of young Westerners, especially Americans, leaving the church. The US of A is no longer a majority-Christian nation. The once-great states of Europe long ago collapsed into the stagnant, degenerate gray that is cultural secularization.
But the collapse of the Cross isn’t a problem wholly confined to the West. Christians in the Middle East have been slaughtered, largely thanks to Bush and Cheney’s invasion of Iraq. The cross survives in Africa, but only because the Kalashkinov has proven itself a suitable defense against the scimitar of Islam. China’s fake Christians survive, for now, but are largely irrelevant thanks to the Vatican’s deal with Red China.
South America remains Christian, thank God. However, the Pinko Pope it sent to the Vatican is hardly a good sign.
With the exception of South America, what’s happening? Why is the True Faith fading?
Because it’s no longer inspiring for those that want to actually be faithful, as most recently shown by the Pinko Pope meeting with America’s abortion pusher.
There have been times when Christianity actually stood for something.
Most obviously among those times are the early centuries of the church, when the apostles and their descendants preached the good news to the subjects of the Eternal City, often at great cost to themselves. Despite being burned as Nero’s churches, fed to the lions, or crucified like their Savior, they continued to preach the Gospel and expand the faith. The cross stood for something, the true word of God, so God’s sheep flocked to it.
During the 1100s, men like Robert Guiscard, the Knights of St. John, the Templars, and the Castilians stood up to the scimitar of Islam and reclaimed Christian lands. They knelt to the cross and expanded the faith, if in bloody fashion. But the cross was inspiring, so God’s sheep flocked to it. Thanks to Charlemagne, Guiscard, and the Reconquista, Europe remained Christian and pushed the crescent moon of Islam back to North Africa and the Levant; the blood-stained cross saved the West and men fell on their knees before God as a result.
Then there were the wars of religion, culminating in the Thirty Years’ War. Protestant or Catholic, both sides of the cross believed in something and the faith remained strong. The pews were filled and God’s sheep heard the good news, whether it came from a Protestant or Catholic mattered not, for their souls were saved.
And then the cross came to America. First, the conquistadors spread it at the point of the sword, as they had recently done in all of Spain, when men like El Cid freed it from the Saracens. Say what you will about their tactics, but all of the New World south of the Rio Grande remains ~90% Christian. It worked; the cross stood for something (and was certainly better than the blood-soaked temples of the natives, despite what SJWs now say), so a new continent of God’s Sheep flocked to it.
Next came the Great Awakenings of North America, where Protestantism revived the faith and temporarily arrested creeping secularization. Once again, the all-important nature of the cross was remembered and God’s sheep filled his pews. Fearful of fiery hell, they bent the knee to God alone and prayed fervently for salvation.
Finally came the revival of the Cold War. With Christendom standing against the atheist, Red Menace, America’s Christians rallied under Billy Graham, spreading the good news throughout America, temporarily halting secularization, and bringing many more into the folds of the faith. Meanwhile, in the Holy See, Pope John Paul II stood against the Red Menace and worked with Reagan to end the Evil Empire. Once again, Christianity was inspiring because it stood for something, and won as a result.
Since then, most of Christendom has collapsed in a way that the Ottomans and Saracens could only have dreamed of.
Europe’s churches rot. Mesopotamia’s were destroyed when America overthrew Saddam, their protector, and handed the region to Islamists. America’s lie empty, starved for funds and parishioners. China’s are theoretically growing, but the Pinko Pope continues to let the CCP choose China’s bishops; letting sworn enemies of the Cross choose the Lord’s representatives is hardly a recipe for success. Africa’s churches remain full, but only so long as lead holds back the Islamist wolves. South America’s also remain full, but it remains to be seen for how long.
So what happened?
Christianity went down the path of wokeness and, as a result, is no longer inspiring.
Take gay rights. The Bible roundly condemns homosexuality and makes it clear that such a lifestyle is impermissible. Sodom was burned to the ground, after all… And what does the modern church do? It hangs rainbow flags out the window. It bowed to wokeness, and in so doing lost all legitimacy.
Who would listen to a preacher that chooses to accede to the demands of a soyboy over the commands of God? Either the religion or its representative is fake at that point, and neither makes you want to go to church. Lies don’t act like a magnet for the faithful, especially considering that they’re a sin. Oh, and Francis, going against all of Catholicism’s history, is “making space for” gays in the church.
Or take abortion. Those churches that remain full have condemned it roundly, choosing to take a stand against infanticide rather than bend the knee. They’re hated, but doing well. Most, however, refuse to condemn those that murder infants or pay for their infants to be murdered. Those weak churches might have earned a pass, for now, from the woke, but they echo when one walks among the pews; cancel culture might not kill them, but a lack of funds and parishioners will. Oh, and Francis, the Pinko Pope, has enlisted Nancy Pelosi, one of the biggest abortion pushers in the US, as a helper.
And on pretty much every other culture war issue, the church has chosen to bend the knee rather than stand up for the Cross. No longer do Christians sing hymns like “Onward Christian Soldiers” on Sundays. Now they listen to drums bang as some midwit pastor prattles on about feel good christianity (intentionally kept lower case; such fluff doesn’t deserve respect in the same way as the True Faith of our forefathers).
Far from the religion of Urban II or George Whitefield, a religion of true belief, fear of hellfire, and faith in the Lord God, modern “Christianity,” if it can even be called that, much more is about “feeling good” and “being nice.”
Sorry, but the Christian fleet at Lepanto, the Maltese Knights, and the other Armies of the Cross were never “nice;” Robert Guiscard’s mausoleum epitaph reads “Here lies Guiscard, terror of the world.” But such men did have real faith and brought millions to the cross, far more than can be said of the weak, “feel good Christianity” types.
And that was inspiring in a way that modern Christianity is not. People will rally to and put their faith in something that men are willing to die for. They won’t give a dime, much less their efforts, to something whose preachers hedge their language about so as not to offend its worst enemies.
Worst among those hedgers is Pope Francis, the Pinko Pope. Well, except that he doesn’t hedge like the feeble-minded youth pastor that says Christianity is all about being “kind” and refuses to condemn abortion on that basis.
No, Francis openly accepts the Enemy into the fold. He’s made deal with the atheists in China, godless automatons that torture and murder the faithful every year. He rejects millennia of church teachings on abortion and gays. And, worst of all, he is a communist, or at least a “fellow traveler.” He subscribes to an ideology that openly rejects God. Such a lack of faith, if not an open rejection of it, is hardly likely to inspire God’s sheep to follow the cross.
If Christians want to spread their faith, they must recover the faith their fathers knew. One that condemns rather than accommodates sin. One that fights evil rather than fights for it. One that rejects decadence rather than flies its banners from the windows.
Did the early Christians accept Rome’s decadence? No! They condemned it. Did the Christians of the Crusader Era bow to the scimitar of Islam? No, they parried it and struck back! Did the Christians of the Cold War bow to the Red Menace! No, they fought it with everything they had and won.
A true Christian cannot be a degenerate or a communist. A true Christian must bow to the cross and believe in the Holy Word. Christianity will continue to falter unless we bring back the real Faith and reject modern, woke, “christianity.”
The first step on that path must be rejecting the Pinko Pope. Whether you’re a Catholic or Protestant, you must stand against the Red representative to the Holy See.
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Zero clue what Christianity actually is. None, zip, nada, nothing, nobody home here. Empty hearted, empty headed.
The entire construct of protestant vs. catholic; and especially that of any earthly “holy see” must be soundly, with Biblical wisdom, rejected. Men create denominations. God made the first Christian!
Christ (God) sent Paul to explain Christianity. This is what has been “lost”, er… destroyed by “religion” the world over and why we are in the fix we are in.
1 Timothy 1:15-16 KJB… “This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all longsuffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.”
Compared to him, we are all on the right track, despite our disagreements.
Disagreements like how the KJB necessarily perverts the Word by forcing different meanings with extremely poor and disingenuous translations.
There is a lot of meaning in that passage completely lost with that translation. What remains is dogmatic and weak.
The KJV is the bible in English. All others are corrupt with over 5000 additions and deletions that make them of dubious value.
Like many I read the KJV for years… I switched to Youngs Literal because it was closer to the originals than many of the other translations.
But, like all translations its up to the reader to search the scriptures and this means looking into whether the translation is correct or not. They all have issues.
Why do “Christians” hate that book so? It’s very telling.
Agreed GCP– however I will say that the spirit ( little s) of what he is saying may be true. We are in the age of those who want their ears tickled and not abiding sound doctrine.
We live in the age where “believers” would change the Word of God to adjust it to mankind’s latest woke insanity.
I listened to a podcast with Terry James and Jan Markell ( I believe it was them – I listen to many) recently that estimates that maybe 1 out of 10 “christians” are actually adherents of Christianity and followers of the true teachings of Jesus.
With prayers echoing out of cathedrals to Mary and dead people ( saints).. with pulpits filled with gays, transsexuals and adulterers/molestors– people accepting what God calls an abomination–replacement theory, denying existence of the Holy Spirit, preaching that all religions are equal and the same and that even non-believers and atheists are children of God– apostasy is rampant.
The Figurehead for Catholicism, which is over half of the “2.8 billion” claimed Christians, is not even a Christian. The globalist, Marxist, Green Deal -pushing commie has essentially denied Jesus Christ as “The Way, The Truth and The Light.”
Without date setting, I feel within every ounce of my being that the False Prophet and his global religion is also being soundly constructed and pushed as surely as the One World Govt of the AntiChrist. It won’t be much longer now until our blessed hope is fulfilled.
Indeed, we have never been closer. The air practically buzzes with it.
The Nope
Stop sending money to these commies.
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The Catholic church does have a long history of some clergy finding the Holy Spirit. What if that was the norm instead of the exception?
Vox Day had an interesting comment on that Gateway Pundit article which he calls the Hidden War….
The spiritual war has gone hot. It’s vital to understand that you are engulfed by it, and neither innocence nor naivete will prevent you from de facto choosing a side, even if you don’t truly understand what you are doing. This isn’t a court of law or a game, and there isn’t anything fair about it.
The catholic church follows a Jew. Read the Book. Peter will be resurrected a Jew and he will sit on one of 12 Jewish thrones judging one of twelve Jewish tribes of Israel. Mat 19
The catholic church knows nothing of the free gift of salvation one must receive if he wants heaven to be his home. The gift given to Paul alone to share with the non-Jews and whatever Jew who would listen. Most wanted to kill him. Acts 9 – 28
A raptureist who worships at the alter of Israel says that Catholics follow a Jew. That’s pretty rich stuff.
You wouldn’t know, how could you making such a comment? You know very little of what you speak. Read up and get back to me.
There was a reason the Catholic church stood in the way of the town idiot interpreting scripture and preaching their nonsense in pulpits and it was because they didn’t want all the other morons led astray. Stop leading people astray heretic.
So your not a raptureist who worships the alter of Israel ? Do tell.
He’s not a Rapturist who worships at the alter of Israel.
He’s a LeftBehinder who worships the doctrine of Hagee, the Handmaid of Israel and aspiring Mayor of New Jew-Ruse-Salem.
Both joined at the hip with Schofield/Dispensationalism.
I have detaile how Samuel Untermeyer (has a ((()))ring to it, funded the wife deserter and ne’er do well lawyer and put him up in an expensive flat in Manhattan and paid his due in a very exclusive ((())) Gentlemans club. The same Samuel who was the sole bankroller of distributing Schofields reference bible to every Seminary and college in America and Britain in addition to distributing same bibles to the poor in America(Nearly everyone in the Robber Baron days) and hired poor kids and poor adults to sell them for whatever they could get they could keep the entire amount. Withing a few decades Dispensationalism and Rapturism was the law of the land in all Protestant Seminaries and colleges save a scarce few. It is claimed that Darby and a Scottish lass actually got it off the ground but Sammy the ((())) and his bitch Cyrus did the real legwork.
“ who worships the doctrine of Hagee”
And you sir are an idiot who’s never read a word I’ve written.
Actually, that means he is wise and discerning.
This is how it works; people who read your crap turn into idiots.
I understand the pre-trib translation of Gods ambassadors of grace. I’ll be one of them. I also know that God is not dealing whatsoever with the nation Israel today, in this dispensation of grace.
You’ve not been paying attention to me or your Bible.
There ya go, flash. You’re not paying attention to Grace Country Fraud! And you don’t know Jack or Shit about the Bible.
Not trying to stir the shit pot.
Just don’t want to miss the opportunity to point out once again that for the bazillionth time GC (he ain’t no pastor!) claims HE KNOWS ALL and his opponent (you) don’t know nuthin’
Put on your dunce cap, sit in the corner, read your Bible, and comment when you are worthy of GC’s brilliance. Five years might be enough.
That’s right, flash, you ignorant fuck. Read moar, dumbass. You don’t know shit!
But GCP KNOWS ALL! GCP HAS ALL THE ANSWERS! GCP VERY SMART MAN. GOD GOES TO GCP FOR GUIDANCE!!!
The above was sarcasm to highlight the 6,666th time GCP claimed to be smarter than the dumbass (according to him) he was arguing with.
When will people learn to ignore that know-it-all bovine scatology artist?
I admit, I am not the best read on scripture, but I have read a shitload of church history and history tells me that self-righteous dullards like GCP sit on their fat asses and contribute nothing to the defense of what remains of Christendom, because the rapture is going to take them away, while historical Catholics sacrificed all, including treasure and blood to build a true Christian civilization, shitheads like GCP take advantage of the that freedom to tear down everything they built. They in effect have unwittingly becomes tools of Satan themselves.
According to the blubberings of GCP and other Protestant clowns, all those that came before Satan’s tool, the gluttonous, whoremongering , drunk Martin Luther all went hell, because they were Catholics, including Saint Augustine of Hippo , who did more for the education of Christians in a day, than GCP and his ilk will do in a lifetime.
And while Catholics where building schools to educate the faithful and missions to provide for the needy, Protestants where pocketing their $$$ millions in 501 exemption collections and dumping their ill bred brats on public schools where they were indoctrinated with anti-Western/Christian filth.
I was raised Southern Baptist and have only been in a Catholic church once , but the more history I read , the more I come to despise Protestantism . In the name of diversity and tolerance, they have damn near destroyed our nation and faith.
Aristotle was absolutely right. There are some who cannot be educated and GCP is one of those.
I’m not a Roman Catholic, GC(I refuse to call him Pastor) probably doesn’t even know what that word means. It was Catholics who took Chrisianity to the entire globe from N. and S. America to Central and western Africa, Indonesia and all points north of there. Catholics once proliferated in Japan before a nationwide Pogram was initiated.
If I had to label myself I would call me a pre Nicean Catholic/Christian.
I have some objections to the Roman church and the new Anti-Pope in particular but nothing like how I object to gracieism and his no walk all talk cheap grace doctrines.
I have read both the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the Catholic encyclopedia and don’t have too many objections to them. The lies and exaggerations about them from God hating dispensationalists would make Bernays envious. Or would it? maybe he had a hand in it.
GC and his ilk also never ever mention the Protestant “Inquisitions” Plural.
As one Dutch Priest who was a known fornicator said as he was killed, “Fornicator I always was, Heretic I never was”.
Keep building that false kingdom. Satan will love you for it.
I have issues with Catholicism. What they are is totally irrelevant.
All I want to say about these legion of Catholic bashers, with GCP being their Chief High Priest of Idiocy is that they are too in love with their hate to realize that ….
FOR OVER 1,000 YEARS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH WAS ALL THAT EXISTED!
You would think these troglodyte curs would show some appreciation for this inconvenient truth. But, nooo …
If not for Catholics defending Europe from being conquered by Islam there would be no Christian church much less fag infested Protestantism, but the ungrateful , ignorant ass clowns have no respect for the ones who made their freedom to worship Christ possible ….smh.
Did Paul exist before the catholic cult? Why yes he did. Thus did Christianity begin. Don’t believe me. As I continue to say, study the book.
Paul was a Jew before conversion.
Paul was a Jew after conversion.
Christianity was a sect WITHIN Judaism. No different than Pharisees, Essenes, Sadducees, etc.
Christianity did not formally split as a separate religion until well after Paul’s death.
For the love of God, read a good History Of Early Christianity book!
LOL follow the resurrected jew, but not this other resurrected jew, by listening to this other racial jew who said it didn’t matter who was a jew or not.
Bergoglio is quite obviously a heretic.
If you want to know why Christianity is in decline … just look at fakers like Grace Country Pastor.
Case closed.
What is wrong with you? Seriously? Sometimes you are erudite and entertaining to the extreme. And then there is this.
James 1:8 A double minded man is unstable in all his ways. That explains it.
I guess you
— enjoy having Bible verses tossed at you no matter what the topic
— having some biblically uneducated dope constantly tell you that you don’t understand the meaning of Scripture
— enjoy an egomaniac who believes ONLY HE rightly divides the truth
— and maybe you get a thrill up your leg concerning his God like powers of knowing who goes to hell, and who gets to sit at his right hand in heaven
— lastly, you must be enraptured with his nonstop Rapture nonsense.
I think you and people who entertain this world class noob might be suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.
Get a clue, man. We’re dealing with a wolf disguised as a sheep.
Stucky these heretics and left behinders are forcing me to appologize to you and offer to bury the hatchet.
On your worst day you have never misled anyone on such an important topic. I may question some of your comments in the future but I won’t attack you anymore.
As for gc(I refuse to call him pastor) and the other rapturists I wouldn’t care an iota if they insisted on being duped with easy listening music but he has relentlessly promoted a grossly false deception for years now. As a lurker I recall how his first day here he cast you and Rins into hell to announce his arrival. He has most likely memory holed that one.
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You are a lost person so who would believe you?
Oh, goodie! Here’s Baal Anus! Another bible thumping buffoon. Like we don’t have enough of them already. And a KJV nutter to boot. Praise Jeeeeeezus!
guiscard is probably not the best example there.. he spent at least as much time fighting fellow christians (greek-speaking orthodox in byzantine southern italy) as he did moslems in sicily.
Eastern Europe and Russia must be a big black spot on the writer’s map.
I actually thought the same thing reading this– the Eastern Orthodox, Armenians, Russian Orthodox, Ethiopians, Nigerians etc etc are flourishing and underground churches in China/N Korea are growing exponentially– they just don’t have big buildings and music productions when they worship and praise.
There’s a church that has grown into a megachurch in the town near me. It’s the size of a college campus and the piety and goodness emanating from it’s physical presence is beyond measure if size and buildings are the mark of holiness. I figure they’ll be getting the studio cameras in soon so they can record the crowds in the bleachers.
This ‘pope’ like the ‘president’ are illegally inserted into their positions and their purpose is to destroy the Catholic Church and the country to bring in the one world religion ane one world government.
Christianity has nothing to do with the pope…
I loath mafias that hide behind religions.
You can’t count Christians by counting heads at church anymore. As with all decent institutions, they did the typical infiltration and destroyed from within, then wear it like a cheap suit to use it’s credibility for their own ends. Sometime, just for fun, when you’re in a group of Christians and they’re bitching about how things are, stand up and yell “Onward Christian Soldiers”….. The looks of horror will make for a good bar story….
BTW, the catholic church in china is controlled by the CCP and is pretty stagnant. The underground church that serves Christ, is flourishing. You don’t hear much about N Korea either but the under ground church there is growing as well, with people returning to N Korea as missionaries.
Quite a deflection…The Holy See, Vicar of Christ, Pope of the Roman Catholic Church, representing 1.2 billion adherents ain’t jack against (((Barbara Spector, Phil Spector, and Arlen Spector))), et. al. Just trying to make peace with the usual suspect TBP luminaries: AP, RD, and the rest. ;0
RD sleeps with the fishes.
Christianity unfortunately = Globalism.
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Take your ignorant, fascist, devil-eaten religion and cram it up your miserable right-wing ass.