A Christian Defence of Faith, Family, and Freedom: George Christensen’s Call to Save the West! By Peter West

George Christensen's June 15, 2025, Nation First article, "A Better Way," is a clarion call for Western civilisation to reclaim its soul amid a moral, spiritual, and cultural crisis. With ideologies that "mock truth, attack tradition, and hollow out the human spirit," Christensen argues that society is collapsing under globalist control, sexual confusion, and nihilism masquerading as progress. His antidote, the Way of Faith, Family, and Freedom, is not a political manifesto but a worldview rooted in Christian principles, offering a path to restore what has been lost. From a Christian perspective, Christensen's vision echoes the Bible's call to stand firm against a secular world that loves darkness (John 3:19), urging believers to defend God's design for humanity with courage and love. This blog piece details Christensen's argument, its resonance with Christian truth, and the urgent need to heed his call in a time of "civilisational decay" as he puts it.

Christensen paints a grim picture: Western society is crumbling under ideologies that reject truth, erode culture, and enslave souls through "state surveillance, sexual confusion, open borders, corporate tyranny, global technocracy, and a culture of nihilism." This crisis, he insists, is not merely economic or political but moral and spiritual, a rejection of the Christian foundations that once anchored the West. From globalist schemes diluting national identity, to radical gender ideologies tearing at the family, the forces of collapse are legion.

For Christians, this resonates deeply. Scripture warns of a world that "exchanges the truth about God for a lie" (Romans 1:25), worshipping created things, ideology, power, self, over the Creator. The parallels to discussions today at the blog in posts below are striking: the pro-abortion "death march" in Adriana Smith's case, where lies chose death over life, or the socialist hatred fuelling violence, as Robert Merz described (discussed below), reflect the same nihilism Christensen decries. The Epstein cover-up (discussed below), with its hints of Deep State meddling, underscores how elites shield corruption, mocking the truth Christians are called to uphold (John 8:32). Christensen's diagnosis is a prophetic warning, echoing Jeremiah's plea to a wayward nation: return to God or face ruin (Jeremiah 18:8).

At the heart of Christensen's vision is faith, the "soul of civilisation." He argues that Western laws, liberties, and institutions were shaped by Christianity's moral vision: human dignity, objective truth, natural order, and resistance to evil. Abandoning this faith, he warns, enslaves us to ideologies like "wokeism, hedonism, and technocratic control." His call to return to Christian roots, not for theocracy, but to restore guiding light, aligns with Psalm 119:105: "Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path."

This resonates with leading philosopher Antony Flew's journey from atheism to deism, where evidence led him to a purposeful intelligent design, also discussed below. For Christians, Flew's partial awakening reflects the power of God's truth to pierce scepticism, but Christensen goes further, urging a full return to the Christian God who orders all things. The human toll of faithlessness, record mental illness, collapsing birth rates, cultural self-loathing, mirrors the despair of a society unmoored from its Creator. Christians must champion faith, as 1 Peter 3:15 urges, giving a reason for the hope within us, countering the nihilism that calls collapse "progress."

Christensen declares the family the "first institution," the bedrock of healthy societies that raises children, cares for elders, and passes on values. Yet, it faces relentless attack: gender ideology in schools, no-fault divorce, and economic policies forcing both parents to work. He calls for restoring the family by protecting children, valuing parents, and rejecting ideologies that deny the God-given differences between men and women.

This echoes the Biblical design for family, where God created male and female to complement each other (Genesis 2:24) and commanded parents to train children in His ways (Deuteronomy 6:7). The US Adriana Smith case, where pro-abortion activists sought to end her unborn son's life against her family's wishes, illustrates the assault on family sanctity. Christensen's vision aligns with Christian resistance to such ideologies, as seen in Poland's 1683 stand against cultural erosion, inspiring believers to defend the family as a divine institution. The spiritual toll of broken families, loneliness, identity confusion, demands action, as Christians are called to care for the vulnerable (James 1:27).

Christensen defines freedom as the space to live rightly without coercion, encompassing speech, religion, property, and conscience. Yet, he insists, freedom requires virtue to avoid descending into chaos, which invites authoritarian control. He rejects both Leftist tyranny and libertine moral decay, advocating a freedom rooted in the common good.

Scripture supports this: true freedom comes from Christ, who sets us free from sin's bondage (John 8:36), but requires living in righteousness (Galatians 5:13). Christensen's call to protect freedom mirrors Poland's resistance to globalist overreach, urging Christians to defend liberties while upholding God's moral order. The human cost, censorship, eroded rights, underscores the stakes, as believers must be "salt and light" (Matthew 5:13–14) in a darkening world.

Christensen sees a nation as a people united by ancestry, culture, faith, and memory, not a globalist playground for foreign investors or bureaucrats. He advocates ending mass immigration, defending borders, and withdrawing from globalist bodies like the UN and WHO, which threaten sovereignty. This aligns with Biblical respect for nations, as God set their boundaries (Acts 17:26), and parallels Poland's 2025 stand against EU control.

The UK's £941 million monthly benefits to foreign nationals, while Britons face homelessness, exemplifies globalism's toll, as discussed below at the blog. For Christians, loving one's neighbour (Mark 12:31) includes stewarding national resources for citizens, resisting policies that dilute identity. Christensen's rejection of globalism as a threat to national soul calls believers to cherish their heritage, as Psalm 33:12 blesses the nation whose God is the Lord.

In an "age of lies," Christensen calls truth-speaking revolutionary, urging courage to name falsehoods, biological denial, censored speech, rewritten history. This echoes Jesus as the Truth (John 14:6), whose followers must expose deception (Ephesians 5:11). Christians must boldly proclaim reality, trusting God to uphold what is right (Isaiah 40:8), and take a stand against the evils and darkness of the age.

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"We are living through a civilisational crisis.

It is not just economic or political—it is moral, spiritual, and cultural. The foundations of our society are being eroded by ideologies that mock truth, attack tradition, and hollow out the human spirit. In their place, we're given state surveillance, sexual confusion, open borders, corporate tyranny, global technocracy, and a culture of nihilism that calls it "progress."

This is not progress. It is collapse dressed up in buzzwords.

But there is a better way.

I call it the Way of Faith, Family, and Freedom. It is not a party platform or a think tank policy paper. It is a worldview; a vision for how individuals, communities, and nations should live and flourish. It's grounded in history, reinforced by common sense, and vindicated by the simple fact that it works.

Civilisation is collapsing under ideologies that mock truth, destroy culture, and enslave the human spirit through globalist control and moral decay.

Western society must return to its Christian roots, where truth, order, and human dignity are grounded in divine reality.

The natural family must be restored as society's cornerstone, defending children, honouring parents, and resisting attacks on gender and parenthood.

Freedom must be rooted in virtue, protected from both authoritarianism and moral chaos, allowing people to live according to conscience.

Truth must be spoken boldly in an age of lies, because only truth has the power to withstand collapse and rebuild what has been lost.

Let me lay it out plainly.

1. Faith: The Soul of Civilisation

At the heart of any culture is a set of beliefs about what is true, what is good, and what is sacred.

Our civilisation — Western civilisation —was built upon the Christian faith. That doesn't mean everyone was a churchgoer. But it does mean our laws, liberties, and institutions were shaped by a Christian moral vision: that every person has dignity, that truth is objective, that there is a natural order to life, and that evil must be resisted.

When we abandon faith, we don't become free thinkers, we become slaves to ideology. In today's world, that ideology is a mix of wokeism, hedonism, and technocratic control.

We must return to our spiritual roots. Not to impose a theocracy but to rekindle the light that once guided our civilisation.

2. Family: The First Institution

Before the state, before the market, before the media, there was the family.

It is the foundation of every healthy society. Strong families raise strong children. They care for the elderly. They pass on wisdom, values, and belonging. Without families, the state becomes a surrogate parent and the result is social breakdown.

Today, the family is under attack. From radical gender ideology in schools, to no-fault divorce, to economic policies that punish stay-at-home parenting and force both parents into the workforce, modern society makes it harder and harder to form and keep families together.

We must restore the family to its rightful place as the cornerstone of our communities. That means protecting children. Valuing mothers and fathers. And rejecting ideologies that undermine the basic truth that men and women are different and that's a good thing.

3. Freedom: Ordered, Not Anarchic

Freedom is not the absence of rules. It is the space to live rightly without coercion from tyrants.

Real freedom means:

Freedom of speech even when it offends.

Freedom of religion, even when it defies political fashion.

Freedom to own property, raise your children, and live in accordance with your conscience.

But freedom requires virtue. A society without moral restraint collapses into chaos, and chaos is always followed by control.

That's why I reject both the authoritarianism of the Left and the moral decay of the libertine Right. We need a freedom rooted in virtue, one that protects the individual but upholds the common good.

4. Nation: A People with a Soul

A nation is more than a GDP figure or a flag on a pole. It is a people united by common ancestry, culture, language, faith, and memory.

Nations must be governed for their citizens, not for foreign investors, global bureaucrats, or ideologues in Geneva. That means:

Ending mass immigration schemes that dilute national cohesion.

Defending national borders and national industries.

Withdrawing from globalist treaties that override national sovereignty.

Saying no to the United Nations, the World Health Organization, the World Economic Forum, and any other unelected body that wants to rule from afar.

Globalism is not just a threat to national economies. It is a threat to national identity.

5. Truth: The First Casualty

We live in an age of lies, where biological reality is denied, speech is censored, history is rewritten, and dissent is treated as extremism.

In this environment, simply speaking the truth has become a revolutionary act.

We must have the courage to name the lies and refuse to bow. Because the truth doesn't care about your feelings, your ideology, or your diversity quota. It simply is. And those who build on truth stand firm, while those who build on lies eventually fall.

Why This Worldview Works

This is not a theory. It's a time-tested way of life.

Societies built on faith, family, and freedom have historically flourished. They produced great art, ordered liberty, innovation with soul, and communities with meaning. They protected children. They honoured elders. They had something to live for and something to die for.

Contrast that with what we see today: record mental illness, collapsing birth rates, gender confusion, cultural self-loathing, endless wars, and digital tyranny. The modern world is rich in data, poor in wisdom. It is technologically advanced and morally bankrupt.

The Path Forward

We don't need to invent a new ideology. We need to recover an old one.

That means building families, not bureaucracies. It means worshipping God, not government. It means loving your nation, not apologising for it. It means speaking the truth, even if it costs you.

I don't pretend this will be easy. But I do believe it is right and necessary.

If you've read this far and you feel the same stirring in your soul, then you're not alone. Join me. Let's rebuild what they tried to destroy. Because what we fight for — faith, family, and freedom — is not just a slogan. It's a way of life. It's a path to renewal. And it's worth everything."