There has been a seismic shift this year. Not just politically, but morally.
The most powerful man in the world didn’t just become more dangerous. He ripped the mask off. What was always there is now out in the open. The cruelty. The truth.
We are ruled by a billionaire class of abusers and exploiters who see working people as tools, the poor and sick as liabilities, and non white people as a threat to be eliminated. That is not hyperbole. That is how they operate. And they will do literally anything to hold onto power.
We already saw it on a private island where children were destroyed while the rich protected each other. And in America, almost no one faced real consequences. That alone should have shattered every remaining illusion.
But what has been most sickening is watching people who claim the name of Christ continue to stand with these men. Watching churches that preach righteousness protect systems that shield predators. Not because they do not know. Because they do.
They are not defending morality. They are defending access to power. They are clinging to the lie that God uses the worst people imaginable to do holy work. This is not a holy lie. It is dangerous. And it is evil.
The white evangelical church is not confused. It is compromised. This is self inflicted spiritual blindness born from the hunger for dominance and control.
When Jesus asked what it profits a man to gain the world and lose his soul, he was not being poetic. He was stating a fact. Power has a price. Empire has a price. And the bill is being paid with our collective conscience.
The church needs to come out of the empire. Out of political idolatry. Out of this grotesque bargain. Come back to the wilderness. Come back to justice. Come back to mercy. Come back to the poor and the marginalized.
Time is short. And nobody gets to pretend they didn’t see it anymore.
Save your soul.
