About This Series

Starting this week, in this newsletter and in the weekly Crush Secularism Podcast (broadcast wherever you listen to podcasts), we’re launching into a new series: As It Is In Heaven. We will cover the history of religion in the West, starting with Christ and moving onward to present. The purpose of this series is very straightforward: If we’re going to bring the West back to Christ, we must study the men that brought Christ to the West.

As you’ll see over the next few weeks, we do not have our priorities straight. Personal evangelism and missionary work are the natural first step to making a nation Christian, but they are not enough to complete the work, and yet this is all we focus on. There is a reason for this, invented by our enemies, and we will discuss it all in great detail starting below.

The Christianization of the West

There was a time when I was considering becoming a Catholic, and the priest I was asking about Catholicism told me: “If Peter had never been imprisoned in Rome, we would probably be called the Antiochian Catholic Church.” He makes an interesting point. The Christianization of the West began almost immediately after the life of Christ, through His apostles. It would only be a few centuries before Rome would declare Christianity as the empire’s religion.

As you should know, Rome is the birth myth of the whole Western world. As such, Christianity spread from Rome to the Germanic peoples, the Scandinavians, the Russians, and the Anglos. We will talk more about their stories tomorrow on the podcast, live on X @ 10 PM Central, broadcast everywhere podcasts are hosted by Friday morning.

What We Must Learn

The conversion of all these nations included one common event: The baptism of the king. The Russian example is perhaps the most dramatic, shortly after the baptism of Vladimir the Great the entire nation was baptized. I encourage you to read about it, search “Baptism of Rus’.” In summary, Vladimir called the whole city of Kiev to the river Dnieper the following day, and all who came were there baptized.

You may protest that these kings forced people to become Christian, which makes them no Christians at all. If that were true you would be right, but broadly speaking there was no slaughter of infidels after the conversion of the king. Non-Christians were not terribly persecuted in Christian Europe, certainly not on the level that was demonstrated by the pagans before them, or the Islamic caliphates alongside them. It was simply the case that Christianity became the state religion, and the actions of the state therefore reflected Christ. Is this not desirable?

It clearly is. Christianity does not require a Christian government, but it is far preferable to a blasphemous one, which is the only alternative. I say again, any state either honors or blasphemes Christ. We have neglected to realize this in the West with our “secular” (Satanic) states, and the consequences find us at every turn.

If you’ve anything to add to this dialogue, reply to this email or comment on the website, and I’ll read your questions and comments on the podcast recording tomorrow. You’re also free to join the space on X, after the recording is complete I’d love to talk with you.

Fear no evil, for He is with us,

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