It’s becoming abundantly clear that Western nations are in a post-Christian void. We Europeans used to be Christians, but we have fallen away.

With that post-Christian void has come a lack of morality. Regular people don’t know what it means to be good anymore.

I’ve had my own struggles with religion, but I’ve lately come to realize that I was mistaking my experience of lazy, careless Christians-in-name-only with the genuine article. It’s tempting to write excuses, but at the end of the day, I was not seeking truth. I was seeking relief from the misery I experienced, and I found it in the short term by turning away from God and toward the world.

Almost immediately, my high moral values (so to speak) plummeted. I became post-Christian. To use a term would be to pretend that I had thought any of it through. I didn’t disbelieve in spirituality, but I felt that I didn’t have to go along with anything organized, to say nothing of trying to find a church again.

I had a freeing sense at the beginning–no more church! No more belief! No more restraints!

And I was happy… for a couple of days. It’s taken me decades of wandering and meandering, only to find that I lost far more than I gained in walking away from faith entirely.

Does that sound remotely familiar to what’s going on in the larger society? Our wealthiest areas (all debt-delusion bubbles) are going increasingly astray. They are barely Western, and definitely no longer Christian. Every single day sees another escalation in degeneracy, another horrible death, some new horror show! And instead of pausing for a moment to ask if the road they travel is perhaps leading them to hell, the drivers of the Zeitgeist double down and call for yet more destruction.

“Let us have more of that which has destroyed us!”

You will get what you ask for.

I’m taking care to not mistake the world for myself, or vice versa, but as I walk along this path where I seek the truth, I can’t help but think that I’m not the only one that needs to do so.

We are living apart from God. We do not honor his commands. We do not seek his grace. We reject his judgment.

We seem to believe that we are gods ourselves… and every time we approach this idolatry, we suffer immensely.