At the end of the Second World War the Allied nations began to \u201cdenazify\u201d Germany. After the final surrender, they began the long process of identifying Nazis and uprooting the influence of Nazism across all of society\u2014in culture, media, economics, and politics. The goal was to create a Germany that was post-Hitler and, therefore, post-Nazi.<\/p>\n
It seems to me that in the West today we are witnessing an attempt to \u201cdechristianize\u201d our society\u2014to identify and destroy the influence of Christianity wherever it exists. The goal, of course, is to create a society that is post-Jesus and, therefore, post-Christian. Christian sexual morals are now said to be bigotry, Christian understandings of marriage and family are now said to be oppressive, Christian notions of justice are now said to be discriminatory. On and on it goes and over time this seek-and-destroy mission is transforming society around us.<\/p>\n
But there is a strange irony to all of this\u2014an irony few people are willing to understand or acknowledge: the very tools people use to criticize Christianity are tools they owe to Christianity. The values they hold and the goals they wish to see realized are values and goals that would not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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