June 1st, 2024 | RYAN TYLER

The Sad Truth About Christians

You can't complain about the decline of the West without acknowledging this.

No other religion on the planet has allowed its most sacred traditions and rituals to be bastardized like Christianity. If you're a Christian, you've allowed your saviour to be replaced by a jolly fat guy who dresses in the colours of Coca-Cola and delivers presents to spoiled children in the suburbs. No other religion on Earth has done the same to their saviours and icons. Not Islam, not Judaism, not Hinduism, not Buddhism. Only Christians have allowed their religion to become a total parody and global laughing stock.

No other religions take Christianity and its various sects seriously anymore. No other religion but Christianity would have allowed the sacred crucifixion of its saviour to be replaced by a mythical bunny that shits out chocolate eggs.

I'm an agnostic and have never subscribed to any form of Christianity, but as an outside observer, I can't help but notice what Christians have done to themselves. They've thrown away their principles, traditions, and dignity. The truth is, Scientologists have more principles than the average Christian or Catholic. Mormons stick to strict principles, Hindus have adhered to the strictest ideas for more than 4,000 years. Even Raelians have more principles than a modern, Western Christian.

Jesus taught his followers the importance of moderation, minimalism, and discipline. Today, Christians shower their kids with presents and pig out on turkey and pie. Jews and Muslims fast and pray during their most sacred days, while Christians indulge in gluttony and greed. As most other religions teach discipline and gratitude, Christians teach their kids to want more.

Christmas is about gluttony and excess; Ramadan and Hanukkah are about reflection, devotion, prayer, and self-improvement.

If you look at any Islamic or Hindu country, you find cultural customs that act like glue. A functioning and stable society relies on certain traditions and values—many of which have been instilled by religion. North America and most of Europe have destroyed their most sacred traditions, which makes it no coincidence that these societies are crumbling. That's not to say that non-Christian nations have done better, but they are advancing at a higher pace.

Saudi Arabia has built some of the world's most epic structures and is currently working on a horizontal AI city called Noem. The United Arab Emirates has Dubai, which is home to some of the world's most revolutionary architecture and a highly efficient healthcare system. Despite being an oppressive hellscape, China continues to advance in technology and medicine. India is advancing quickly and developing a strong middle class. If not for sanctions, Iran would be doing has good as its Islamic neighbours.

The Christian countries? Not so much. They've stalled and are now beginning to regress socially and economically. You know this true, don't you? If you like to complain about the collapse of Canada and the West, you can't disregard this.

More stringent Catholic countries in South America, like Mexico, are set to replace the United States as economic superpowers within the next hundred years. Although Mexico risks taking the same hyper-liberal path as the United States, it has a solidly Catholic culture that can temper the more radical progressive elements that are trying to take over. Sadly, though, Mexicans indulge in similar traditions of gluttony and excess at Christmas.

Once a leading religion has been bastardized, the further degradation of its society follows.

Once Christian nations replaced Jesus with Santa Claus and magic bunnies, the door was opened to the destruction of the principles and values that made the nations great. By replacing and destroying the icons and saviours of a faith, their values and guiding principles can be slowly dismantled and disassembled over time. This is exactly what has happened in most Christian democracies.

First they made a joke out of Christmas and Easter, then they began replacing our traditions and values with depraved alternatives. We moved from nuclear families and monogamy to sexual degeneracy and skyrocketing divorce rates in fewer than three generations. As soon as we stopped taking Jesus seriously, everything started going to shit.

I'm not even slightly religious and this is what I am telling you.

All religions have been teaching the same code for thousands of years. They have different figureheads and symbols, but they have been teaching the same values. If you stare into a bright light, you won't see anything. If you walk into pitch darkness, you won't see anything. We need the perfect balance of light and dark to see. This is our reality and ancient scrolls and texts have been teaching it throughout history.

It doesn't matter which figurehead represents these truths. When we stop living by them as a society, we lose our way.

Now, if I were a real Christian with deep fundamentalist values, I would see something a lot more frightening in all of this. I would look back at some ancient texts and see something much darker. I would think about Jesus and about his arch nemesis. There would be some old verses and words that would come to mind to shed light on what has been unfolding in most Christian democracies.

The apostle Paul said that Satan appears as an angel of light. The “Devil” will appear and masquerade as something good, or something beautiful. There are many Christian myths about the anti-Christ deceiving us with beauty, wholesomeness, and righteousness. All of it looks and sounds so familiar and prophetic, even from an agnostic's point of view.

If I were a Christian, I would see Satan winning. He dressed up in red and white and appeared wholesome and righteous. He mesmerized our children with colourful, cute bunnies and chocolate. He tricked us into turning away from Jesus and toward gluttony, greed, envy, and various other sins. Then, once he destroyed Jesus, he began to lead us further into darkness.

We are now so far into the darkness, the light behind us is a mere speck.

Since I'm not religious, I see this destruction as the natural consequence of us abandoning our collective values. There is no real magic or mythical battle between deities happening here. This is something that has been happening throughout human history. Societies are created on sets of fundamental values and traditions. Then, based on that foundation, they grow and prosper until something else gets in.

Eventually, through complacency and privilege, we allow our societies to be poisoned.

Ironically, the values that make us prosperous also make us complacent over time. We become so used to the prosperity and lack of hardship that we become aloof, bored, and lazy. We start inventing obstacles to overcome and we find more time to dwell on menial things. We start getting bored and opening the door to new indulgences and pleasures. We slowly, through generations, start to forget the principles our grandparents lived by. We forget the lessons our ancestors tried to teach us about discipline, gratitude, balance, morality, and moderation.

These are all lessons taught by every major religion, even Scientology.

We currently have no real values. The values we have only aid and abet the further destruction of our society. The new sacred texts that teach progressive values and righteousness are poison. We have fatherless homes; we have sexual degeneracy and deviance being proudly paraded on public streets; we have children indulging in destructive behaviours without any guidance; we have plummeting birthrates and epidemics of drug abuse and disease. We have extreme factions emerging in every corner of our society, all ready to kill each other. We are falling apart.

We no longer value balance and moderation, or practice gratitude. We have become a society that tolerates everything and stands for nothing.