Leftism Fears Jesus Christ
On Easter, the holiest day of the year, we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord, Savior, and Treasure. Just saying those words out loud — Lord…Savior…Treasure — it is easy to recognize why modern socialist governments find Christianity so threatening. For if He is the King of kings, then all of our would-be masters in this world are pale imposters. If He alone is the Way and the Truth and the Life, then the marble halls of Big Government are just false paths leading to false idols that promise false salvation. If He is the only Treasure, then all of the things that governments do to make us envious, resentful, and hateful toward one another are tricks and lies meant to blind us from the Truth.
A Canadian writer named Dimpee Brar wrote a beautiful and insightful essay on this subject last month. In that essay, Brar draws attention to the more than eighty churches that have been set on fire across her country. She deftly describes how government-sponsored lies instigated these attacks on Christian houses of worship and argues persuasively that Marxist-globalist governments view Christ, Christians, and Christianity as foremost enemies.
Brar notes that the corporate news media routinely downplay these recurring acts of desecration by undercounting the number of churches set on fire and reporting on the crimes with intentionally vague language that obfuscates the perpetrators’ obvious motives. Canadian journalists report upon the church attacks as if they were “random accidents” happening inside of commercial businesses. She argues that each of these church fires should instead be seen as “episodes in a larger campaign” of a “war being waged against the West.”
Brar points out that all of this destruction is based upon the government-perpetuated lie that mass graves of indigenous children have been found on the grounds of Christian schools. The lie has been exposed, but Canadian politicians continue to defend the actions of arsonists as “understandable.” “To the Left…the truth is secondary to the permission it grants.” Hatred for Western civilization is disguised as “justice.” The attacks on Christian churches implicitly instruct the youngest generations that “nothing is sacred.” Canada’s prime ministers elevate grievances over God’s enduring Truth.
Canadian citizens are not spontaneously burning churches to the ground. Canadian schools, cultural institutions, and businesses first taught citizens to despise their civilization. By teaching entire generations that “all ways of life are equal; that any claim to superiority is a disguised will to power; and that distinctions between noble and base, just and unjust, good and bad, and above all, true and false, are instruments of ‘oppression,’” anti-Western radicals replaced Jesus Christ with relativism. The Marxist-globalist orthodoxy that now oppresses us cannot countenance Western civilization’s proclamation “that our way of life is superior not by race or conquest, but because it is true; therefore, it is good, just, and noble.”
Demonstrating true intellect, Brar recognizes that our civilizational inheritance as Westerners includes “the twin roots of Jerusalem and Athens: biblical revelation and reason.” Although distinct sources of wisdom, both “roots” lead us to Truth by recognizing that there is a “best way” to live and a “standard” that exists “both outside and above us.” The gifts of Western civilization are therefore lasting impediments to leftism’s need for “tyrannical rule.”
“This is why our churches must burn,” Brar concludes. The “steeples are the most visible symbol of the biblical half of our inheritance….guiding our eyes, and with them our souls, upward to the highest things.” Jesus Christ reveals the left’s moral relativists as false prophets because “when there is God and Truth, then everything is not permissible.”
Here is where Brar’s argument reveals profound personal wisdom. She looks around at all the churches burning across Canada and recognizes that “our enemies pay us great compliments.” The left’s “hatred” and “resentment” reveal how much they fear us. If those of us committed to defending Western civilization were truly defeated, Marxist-globalists would treat us with “pity” and “indifference.” Instead, their “rage is proportional to the threat they perceive.” Leftists understand that Christianity “remains the greatest obstacle to the tyranny they wish to institute.”
Recognizing that leftists have unintentionally revealed what they fear most, Brar rallies Christians to stop hiding or apologizing. Instead, she charges, we must “regain a seriousness equal to that of our opponents. If they judge this way of life dangerous enough to burn, then it is time we judged it once more worthy of living and defending in full.”
Do her words not light a spark within you? Does her call not embolden you to defend your Christian faith? Has she not revealed leftism as nothing more than a magician’s trick or a desert’s mirage? Has she not proved that Christ’s Truth is the Way?
How can we allow ourselves to ever feel defeated if we remain faithful followers of Christ? How could we stand with Him and worry that mortals such as Mark Carney, Barack Obama, Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, or Ursula von der Leyen could vanquish Western civilization with Marxist-globalism’s moral relativism? Power does not rest with godless political leaders. Eternal Truth begins and ends with God. Jesus Christ defeated death. Why would we fear the legacies of politicians, bankers, actors, or musicians who demand to be worshipped in this life?
The war being waged against the West is real. Every church that leftists burn to the ground is a reminder of the stakes. But a house of God is much more than bricks and stones. Arsonists can demolish walls and steeples. Only we can demolish our faith.
That’s a vital distinction. Leftist governments want to humiliate, demoralize, and enfeeble us. Moral relativists want us to feel weak and defeated. Marxist-globalists wish for us to accept that Western civilization is lost. What our enemies know — and what we too often forget — is that we alone decide whether to submit. We alone decide whether to give in to tyranny or to continue fighting it. We alone decide whether leftists really have the power to vanquish Reason, Truth, and Christ.
On one side stand those who wish to divide, diminish, and destroy. On the other side stands our Lord, Savior, and Treasure, Jesus Christ. On Easter, we remember His sacrifice. Let us also remember that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. So long as we sustain our faith, Western civilization will endure. It is leftism — false, resentful, and evil — that will die, wither, and fade away.
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2026/04/leftism_fears_jesus_christ.html