An evil ideology is at war with “family and nature,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller said following the horrific assassination of Charlie Kirk. Miller warned that there is an ideology in America which has “steadily been growing in this country which hates everything that is good, righteous, and beautiful and celebrates everything that is warped, twisted, and depraved.” 

The prevailing moral chaos is the result of the willful ejection of the light of the gospel from the public square. It began decades ago when society was adamant that they wanted a culture “free from God” insisting on a false dichotomy of “secular” and “sacred.” They banished the “sacred” into the private sphere of opinion and subjectivity. Your faith was not objectionable as long as it was kept private at home or in church, but necessarily out of public education, the workplace and the public square.

Consequently we now have a culture “free from God” . . . i.e., a godless, nihilistic society. When a culture collectively abdicates from the Judeo-Christian worldview, it inevitably embraces paganism. Paganism is characterized by two fundamentals: (1) nothing is objectively true, and (2) everything is permitted. As the culture free-falls into paganism, truth becomes whatever one wants as opposed to being anchored in reality. With objective truth discarded, everything becomes permissible no matter how insane.

Darkness is defined as the absence of light. As the light of the gospel recedes, darkness inevitably encroaches and envelops the culture. The prevailing moral chaos is the direct consequence of the rejection of the light of the gospel. However with the darkness comes supernatural malice as the door opens for demonic activity. By its very nature, the gospel of Jesus Christ suppresses demonic activity; but when the gospel recedes, the demonic is given free reign. Scripture is clear that we are engaged in supernatural warfare – “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.” (Eph 6:12)

Ironically, while denying the existence and malevolence of the demonic, the culture is fatally impressed with its own “Babel-tower” achievements, and has unwittingly welcomed the powers of darkness into the fold. The gospel is the only thing that can effectively engage the demonic. Everything else is futile, akin to taking Tylenol for the pain of stage 4 pancreatic cancer.

The culture increasingly derides Christianity and categorizes its believers as uneducated, superstitious buffoons. Ironically, the “uneducated buffoons” that they have marginalized are the only ones that are supernaturally empowered to drive back the darkness and restore sanity.