US journalist David Brooks is at it again; see link below. From the plush safety of his New York Times perch, he sighs the sigh of a disappointed professor grading a paper from a promising but wayward student. Christians, he laments, are becoming too loud, too certain, too unwilling to fold their convictions into the approved beige of elite consensus. A "hidden faith saves no one," he quotes approvingly, then spends the rest of the column fretting that too many believers have stopped hiding.
Translation: "Please go back in the closet we designed for you."
But something has changed. The old bargain — "You can have your Jesus if you keep Him out of the public square" — is collapsing. And the people who spent decades lecturing us from Davos podiums, faculty lounges, and editorial boards are suddenly, palpably, afraid.
They should be.
A Christianity that refuses to be tamed, that insists on absolute truth, that protects the unborn, honours the givenness of male and female, and bows the knee to no regime — this kind of Christianity is the one force on earth that globalist hegemony cannot negotiate with, cannot buy off, and cannot silence without exposing its own tyranny.
That is why it terrifies them.
1. It Cannot Be Bought
Money is the globalist sacrament. They believe every conscience has a price. Offer enough grants to the right pastors, enough tax exemptions to the right denominations, enough prestige to the right theologians, and Christianity will politely neuter itself into a lifestyle brand: "Jesus is my co-pilot, but the pilot still flies first-class."
Yet millions of ordinary believers — Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Pentecostal — are walking away from that deal. They are willing to lose jobs, platforms, tax status, and social respect rather than bless what God calls abomination. That refusal breaks the machine. You cannot run a borderless, post-moral, debt-financed empire when a critical mass of citizens answers to a higher King who forbids abortion, forbids usury, and commands "Let the little children come to Me."
2. It Cannot Be Shamed
The elite's most reliable weapon has always been shame. Label something "hate," and watch the herd scatter. For decades it worked. Churches apologised for existing. Pastors prefaced every sermon with disclaimers. Christians learned to speak of their faith the way people speak of a family member in rehab, quietly, with embarrassment.
That spell is broken. A mother in Virginia will now stand at a school-board meeting and read the pornography assigned to her ninth-grader — out loud — until the board cuts her mic. A baker in Colorado will go broke and to court before he ices a cake celebrating what Scripture calls detestable. A Finnish parliamentarian will quote Romans 1 on the floor and dare the state to jail her for "hate speech." They are no longer playing by the rules of respectability politics.
When shame loses its sting, the only tool left is raw force. And raw force unmasks the tyrant.
3. It Cannot Be Centralised
Globalism needs hierarchies it can control: one world bank, one world health organisation, one approved curriculum, one curated news feed. Christianity, at its most alive, is stubbornly local and stubbornly supernatural. It meets in living rooms, in strip-mall storefronts, in underground house churches in China and Iran. It baptises in bathtubs when the state forbids it. It sings psalms when the algorithm suppresses it.
You cannot cancel a church that multiplies by division. You cannot freeze the assets of a congregation that runs on cash offerings and potluck dinners. You cannot intimidate a faith whose founder was executed by the state and then defeated death three days later.
4. It Remembers the Permanent Things
Globalism is a solvent that dissolves every tie thicker than a consumer preference: nation, family, sex, even the distinction between creator and creature. Christianity is the last Western institution that still preaches the permanent things: marriage as covenant, children as blessing, work as vocation, death as a doorway — not a bug to be engineered away with CRISPR and billion-dollar longevity labs.
When a society forgets those things, it becomes a playground for the rootless, ruthless, and rich. A people reawakened to the permanent things is a people no longer willing to be managed like livestock.
5. It Has Defeated Empires Before
Rome tried to stamp it out and became Christian. The French Revolution tried to replace it with the Cult of Reason and ended up crowning Napoleon in Notre-Dame. The Soviets tried to bury it and found the churches packed when the Wall fell.
Every empire that has declared war on the Church has either repented or rotted. The globalists know this history. They are not stupid. They are simply next in line.
The Real Reason They Panic
David Brooks and his class are not afraid of "Christian nationalism" in the cartoonish sense they warn about — no one is coming for their lattes with a bayonet. They are afraid of a Christianity that refuses to bless their regime: a faith that will not consecrate their sexual revolution, will not underwrite their debt orgy, will not genuflect to their climate idols, and will not stay silent while they mutilate children in the name of "care."
They are afraid because they have built a tower that reaches to the heavens, and they have just noticed a small cloud on the horizon — the size of a man's hand — growing into a storm they cannot negotiate with.
That cloud is the Church awake, unapologetic, and unafraid.
And history has already written the ending. The gates of hell will not prevail against it. The only question left is whose side the Brooks-class elites will be on when the tower finally cracks.
https://www.theblaze.com/align/why-real-christianity-terrifies-the-elites-and-theyre-right-to-worry