Whence the craziness enveloping the once-Christian ‘West’?
Published: 5 March 2019 (GMT+10)

Extra, March 2018 (Creation magazine insert)
In the once-Christian world of ‘the West’, we seem to be awash in crazy thinking, which gets crazier by the day:
- Same-sex ‘marriage’; who would have thought even 20 years ago that such a notion would not only be seriously contemplated, but legislated in countries that only a generation ago designated homosexual behaviour as a prosecutable crime?
- Gender-bending ideology being taught to children in schools. In Australia it was implemented in the deceptively-titled ‘Safe Schools’ program and even funded by Federal and State governments. It’s called by other things in other countries. Even primary-school aged children are being encouraged to question their ‘gender’, as if this was something different to their biological sex. This causes ‘gender dysphoria’ where a boy might begin to think in his head that he feels like a girl, or vice versa. Children are even encouraged to experiment with homosexual behaviour. These programs amount to grooming children to be confused about their sexuality and to become ‘gay’ in their behaviour. A statement by the American College of Pediatricians said, “Conditioning children into believing a lifetime of chemical and surgical impersonation of the opposite sex is normal and healthful is child abuse.”1
- Laws being passed to erase one’s birth sex from birth certificates; for example, in California.
- Regulations being enacted to make it an offense to call someone by a pronoun that reflects their biological sex when the person prefers ‘other’ gender pronouns (or even ‘non-gender’; neither male nor female).
- There is a movement to try to get equal rights for animals as for humans.2 There is even talk of ‘rights’ for robots!1
- Legalization and promotion of abortion in the name of ‘Women’s rights’ that allow killing of a baby in his/her mother’s womb right up to the full term of the pregnancy. The law in Victoria (Australia) allows for this, merely on the say-so of two complicit medical doctors.
- The push for liberal euthanasia laws that facilitate the elimination of those who are deemed a burden on society.
- Environmental regulations that protect man-destroying animals over humans.
- And much more.
What is the root of this craziness?
These things are symptoms of peoples who have turned their backs on God, our Creator. The Apostle Paul says in Romans 1:18–21
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who by their unrighteousness suppress the truth. For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened. (emphasis added)
When people abandon the knowledge of God, He gives them over to ‘futile thinking’, and we see it all around us today, as our nations have abandoned God and His Word, the Bible.
When we discredit the Bible as the foundation of our customs and laws, what do we lose?
- That we are made in the image of God, and as such that we are rational beings who can have logical thoughts. If we are a product of a random process, an explosion of nothing to produce everything (the ‘big bang’), where our brains are the product of billions of chance mutations, why should we trust our thoughts to be rational? And then there is no such thing as truth and we have the ‘postmodern’ outlook that judges according to feelings and hurts, rather than any objective truth.
- That God made us in His image (Genesis 1:26), so human life is ‘sacred’. Thus, Christians throughout history have cared for the unloved and the unlovable. It was Christians who adopted orphans and started hospitals, etc. Today, who are the forgotten, uncared for? For a start, think of the millions of innocent babies with their lives snuffed out in abortion.
- That God made us male and female (Genesis 1:27), not an alphabet soup of genders. The modern gender bending ideology is ultimately an attack on God’s plan and purpose for us and for human flourishing.
- That we are fallen creatures (Genesis 3), and so we need redemption through what the Lord Jesus Christ has done. Our fallen-ness manifests itself in all manner of deviations (sin) from God’s perfect purposes for us, but we have a wonderful hope available in Christ. That hope is expressed like this:
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. (2 Corinthians 5:17)
And so, we produce Creation magazine, a subversive, counter-cultural publication that endeavours to re-establish that which has been lost. As a result, those who have lost their way in this present toxic culture come to faith in Christ and into a right relationship with God. And so, we see people come to fulfil their God-ordained potential, along with human flourishing as we honour of God.
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References and notes
- Gender Ideology Harms Children (updated September 2017); http://www.acpeds.org/the-college-speaks/position-statements/gender-ideology-harms-children. Return to text.
- https://creation.com/human-rights-animals. Return to text.
- https://creation.com/should-robots-have-rights. Return to text.
Readers’ comments
Regarding gender dysphoria, my remarks were directed at those who cause such psychological problems by confusing children with 'progressive' education agendas, not those who suffer with such afflictions.
Going straight to the point, I don't believe in the same things that you. However, I do agree with a considerable part of the article particularly the fact that things are going crazy in our today society. But, some things that you pointed out are perfectly normal for humans. For example, the fact that animals are not under specices compared to us and that now society is slowly waking up for it, it's for me how you could say "thank God!".
Your view that animals are not beneath humans in importance reflects a non-Christian worldview. Christians believe that we were made in the image of God and therefore human life is 'sacred' unlike any other creature made by God. However, because other creatures were created by God, and we are stewards of God's creation, we have a responsibility to care for them, not abuse them. Hence organizations like the RSPCA were started by Christians. In a materialistic view, no life is sacred. No life is precious. According to evolution, the fit survive; that's all. This does not ennoble animals but demeans humans; and hence we have a culture of death (of humans) being pushed today. There is no caring for creation, other than borrowing it from Christianity. See Conservation
Great article. I like to point out that homosexuality and paraphilia of any kind is "condemned" even by evolutionary biology: If it's not a man and a woman, there's no child, and evolution is the theory of reproductive advantage, correct me if I'm wrong.
"Regulations being enacted to make it an offense to call someone by a pronoun that reflects their biological sex when the person prefers ‘other’ gender pronouns (or even ‘non-gender’; neither male nor female)."
That's a bit of an understatement in Canada: the Criminal Code isn't considered a mere 'regulation'. The infamous C-16 is the bill that amended it.
Now that I am 39 I am still struggling with things, but not as bad as before (Though sometimes it seems as bad or worse, I have never been happier or more well adjusted), and I am SO VERY GLAD i did NOT have the surgery. I try and tell those considering it to wait. Wait a year or two or twenty. Because it cannot be easily undone and the positive aspects of it are few and vastly overstated, whereas the negatives are overwhelming. People who support such things are actually supporting the abuse and foolishness of a person that can lead to suicide later on.
You have to be 18 to own a gun or join the military, 21 to own a pistol and drink alcohol, but you can be 5 and taken seriously when you want to change something that will forever alter the path of your life, like your gender... It is literal insanity...
If a person cannot be happy with the way God made them, then changing their gender surely will not help, either. But for some who have suffered similarly in childhood as I did, accepting your birth gender can be almost impossible to do, and only through God can one ever hope to be comfortable in their birth gender.
Wow! What a masterful and concise synopsis of the problem in less than three lines! Problem stated in the first line and solution in the second. Of course, it is understood that a basic premise of "God's truth" is found in Romans 3:23 - choose your favourite translation ...
Robert B. US
Satan said he will build a world system bigger & better than God the Creators...
...So a Bent people, drinking in bent water, on a bent world. He invented a Bent Ball Earth in a bent ball universe...
God clearly says that he makes our way straight & level 100's of times.
the Devil says you can never know peace, your ball is belting about at over a million mph
But God says "Be Still & Know I AM God" the earth is fixed & cannot move
Praise God Daniel 12:1-3 talks of endtime believers rediscovering the dome & level special creation.... the Deviles delusion is huge & the whole world has bought into it.... It's High Time to awake
Daniel says revival flows from understanding that Genesis points out it is a closed system ... the Dome holding back the waters above & below
The Stringline is His Justice & the Plumb-bob is his Righteousness.... Both are "Impossible" on a Ball as we are seeing played out daily.... Foundations Matter
Let me explain:
In debating Genesis with influential Christians who believe in billions of years of evolution AND a literal Adam & Eve I found they relied on English translations of Genesis with subtle corruptions. E.g. Gen.1:27 in some translations uses only ‘mankind’ whereas Hebrew has [a’dam], meaning ‘man’ or ‘mankind’, while the same verse also includes [ha’a’dam], meaning ‘a man’, or ‘the man’. Such translations allow belief in soul-less Homo sapiens before Adam.
Similarly, some translations have Ge.1:1 as: “In the beginning God created the sky and the earth”. This allows various gap theories, e.g. claiming the Bible doesn’t answer “On What Day Was Planet Earth Created?” as an SDA article asks – and claims Gen.1:1 is best rendered: “In the beginning God created the sky and the arable land.”
I was shocked that all such corrupt translations that facilitate attempts to make the Bible agree with long ages of evolution seem to post-date 1970.
But we can NOT logically reconcile long ages of evolution and the Bible. Hence many Christians avoid the topic, while others lose their faith, and atheists and agnostics know they can win a debate with compromising Christians by showing belief in long ages and Genesis is illogical.
So the church has lost confidence in public life and both Western church and the West are in decline.
I have been studying the rapid moral decay since I became a Christian at 12. The problems are so deeply entrenched now and so ever present that I can't help but feel helpless concerning it all. I fear becoming a Christian that has lost it's savor, or lukewarm. I'm all cried out so to speak. I know the Lord is in control. I just hope that in some ways He can find a use for me to combat the evil that grips the world.
I can't think of a scripture that explains your conundrum. I have been a Christian a long time, and I still puzzle over how someone who professes Christ as Lord and Saviour could vote for anyone who supports abortion of babies up to term (e.g.). But then, how can a 'real' Christian not accept the historicity of Genesis 1-11 (but I did that at one time!)? In my experience the two issues are entwined; those who refuse to accept the authority of Scripture in Genesis (e.g. theistic evolution) also tend to be the ones who vote 'crazy', whose voting is not informed by Scripture, but by the culture around them (and the media).
Remember these issues are the symptoms of the real problem, namely us, (sinners). The bible is AA for sin-aholics but if you don't recognize you have a problem, you can't deal with it. Like all sin, drinking carousing and drunkenness was fun until the consequences appeared later on.Then comes the misery!
Purely scientifically, we are male and female, nothing in between! Everyone who wants to know, knows that. Like so much science nowadays social irrational science and unprovable social hypotheses abound and are gaining stride in this fallen world. We elect the leaders who allow this depraved of mind social situations to stand and when a leader stands up for what is right, He or She is demonized which is the opposite of what is really happening! The people who oppose the gospel are on the side of satan, but some don't see it. The people who applaud this trend to paganism scream that we Christians are intolerant. I have found those that scream intolerance are the most intolerant of all. For if we are so intolerant, how did all this get started? Did we force their children into Sunday school to brainwash them? No! Our framers of the constitution gave freedom of speech and religion to prevent subjection of the public. The left doesn't realize it but they are framing their own demise. When governments get full control of the public, fascism prevails! ALWAYS! Don't believe me read your history. It is repetitious.
My pastor, rightly says the last prophesy to be fulfilled is the rapture, (taking up). So it seams clear to me we are in the last days, (no predictions on when He will return).
Our job is to sow seed. God calls to the heart. So let's take this CMI material, sow and don't look back.
Remember, we ultimately win! AMEN!
The Law of Non-Contradiction could be expressed as follows:
A = A
A is not, non-A
If A, then not non-A
The present rate of decline is accelerating exponentially leaving us wonder just how much longer.
I no longer see a long range future for the West as it would take an act of God to reel it back in from it's tumble into
godless socialism.
We once had people of upright character representing us in government but now, every aspect of
what was good is under attack. Whether this means the Lord will return sooner or later, who knows but if
it is later, this nation (USA) is going to suffer greatly and may not survive very long as a republic.
In these times, it's best to stay dressed.
We can all take comfort though when we remember what our Lord said about these days and how it will be one of many signs of His soon return. We do what we can to share The Gospel (Truthfully) to any who will listen and we must remember that it is only The Living God who will bring an end to these evils. Don't give up on the "Blessed Hope" we have in Him.
TY for the work you do.
The only solution suggested was:
This is an important tool that Christians have to reach the lost, who are, as you say not generally connected with any church. My solution does not assume anything about the people being connected with a church. Sharing Creation magazine assumes nothing about a person's church connections, and nor does witnessing in general. Us Christians need to reach the lost with the Gospel; that's the solution.
Thank you so much for writing this article. When I was a very young boy, I could have never imagined the world--and our country--that we now live in. Yes, it is "crazy," and getting "crazier by the day." At age 5 or 10, I never could have imagined back then where there would come a time when animal life would be more important than human life, namely, more important than unborn babies--and now more important than babies that have been born! Watching Cuomo sign into NY law that babies can be aborted right up to the very moment of being born, & seeing all the people in the room with him standing & cheering about it, I knew that I had just witnessed the totally evil bottomless pit of depravity! Just unbelievable!
I too thought of Romans 1; but I also thought of Romans 2, where Paul tells us that all unregenerate people will be without escape on the day of judgment, and all the evil they do in this lifetime will be like coals these people put upon their own heads for the day of their judgment. I wouldn't want to be in their shoes!
And as a boy, I could have never envisioned a time where claiming to be the opposite sex would become more credible than the gender a person is born with! And now there is even "talk of 'rights' for robots!"?? Yes, euthanasia is next.
Dr. Batten, I want to thank you so much for all of your resources, especially your DVD (now MP4 download): Artistic Ape Anecdotes: The Art of Deception. This means so much to me because it is the GREATEST PROOF AGAINST apes turning into humans that I have ever found! It further strengthens my faith in God, that all of us are eternally valuable in God's eyes, because HE created all of us humans in HIS image! And we Christians will also get to spend eternity with God, now that's beyond any words!
I think and lament over these things on a daily basis - appreciate you putting it out there.
It’s beyond absurdity to think we can determine reality as it relates to gender. God made it plain he made only 2 and we come into the world as one or the other
(Those advocating that mankind legislates what is in this arena are not those suffering from another sad effect of the fall)
So I wonder - do we not need an identity (that we did not determine) in order to attempt to determine that another part of our identity (in this case gender) is within our power?
Blue Wednesday flies faster.
Makes more sense.
Thanks for pointing out why people who wilfully attempt to not retain the knowledge of God go off the deep end - as Paul so clearly wrote down many many years ago.
I pray that the children today are not deceived by the abhorrent effort to ruin them.
And that parents see this deception for what it is and protect them.
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