Neo-Christendom as a New World Order
The eternal truths that once united, guided, and inspired us are being ignored. Our civilization was built on Christianity, but we have forgotten our ancestral faith. Our civilizational core has been lost. The liberal order has no transcendent foundation. Our people grasp wildly at "liberty" and "equality" with ever greater desperation, and now our societies are collapsing under the weight of numerous unrealistic assertions about human nature.
A new world order will rise, but will it be benevolent? Will it be good? As Christians, we should push for the establishment of a neo-Christendom. We should advocate the rise of a new world order that reorients society around God and his will for humanity. The first Christendom arose in Rome and lasted over a thousand years. It succeeded in synthesizing art, philosophy, academia, relationships, romance, government, and even war into a comprehensive worldview oriented around God as the telos of human existence. Liberalism's decline opens the possibility for the rise of a neo-Christendom which can gather the broken fragments of modernity and reintegrate everything towards transcendence and theosis.
We must first tear down before we rebuild. We should undermine GDP worship and stop making economics the measure of human development. We should accelerate the decline of unrealistic and destructive liberal ideals relating to liberty and equality, liberal liberty and liberal equality do not exist and cannot exist. We should discredit the so called "separation of church and state," governments must conform themselves to the God who created them. We should resacralize. We should reorient everything around the ultimate meaning of human life. There is nothing more meaningful than the glorification of God.
The church should reunite. Our embarrassing and futile divisions should end. Pride should dissipate and compromises should be made. Every Christian denomination should now prioritize Jesus' prayer for unity in John 17. Christianity is collapsing across our societies, and younger generations neither understand nor care about the arguments that once drove Christians apart. Now is the time to end five centuries of civil war and build a new world together. Almost anything is preferable to our current catastrophic quagmire of wasted energy. Unity is God's command.
Neo-Christendom should be built into a geopolitical superpower. The church should guide governments, institutions, and billions of people towards the projection of Christianity across the world. A coalition of Christian nations should be organized, like NATO or the EU, towards the development and expansion of our civilization. Our final goal should be the conversion of every nation and the spiritual development of every soul. Our governments should enforce biblical laws and encourage morality. Our schools should teach students about the church's glorious history and destiny. Our economies should reorient themselves around sustainable quality. Our militaries should protect Christians worldwide and facilitate the church's growth. Our people should be imbued with heroic and sacrificial love.
Neo-Christendom is not an unrealistic utopian fantasy. It is the revival and update of a world order that dominated Europe for a thousand years. The first Christendom lasted far longer than our contemporary liberal order. Neo-Christendom is perhaps the only way forward; the only benevolent possibility in our dying age.