Merry Christmas!
(From here in Australia. Merry Christmas Eve to many of you.)
I know many of you aren’t optimistic about the future. You see defeat on the horizon, through AI, war, tyranny, ecological collapse or rampant social disintegration.
Fair enough. It seems like the Enemy of Civilisation has powerful weapons and many pawns.
But when hasn’t that been true?
Take any golden age of human flourishing you like – the Enemy loomed there too, ready to work insidious plans to take it all down.
Then take any period of strife. Hope still remained. People fought for peace and survival, hoping that things would improve one day. And they were right. Sometimes, a part of the world swung from catastrophe to a time of abundance in a generation.
But if it’s cycle of rising and falling, that’s not much reason to hope. For you personally, a dark epoch might be on the horizon. Or society collectively, there’ll be more times of troubles.
This is Christmas, though.
Don’t forget what the season means.
The birth of Jesus is the greatest cause for hope. It’s proof that God is not just on our side, but he’s willing to enter the fight on our behalf. We have a God willing to endure the indignities and pain of a mortal life just to give us the chance of salvation.
That story is the bedrock of Western civilisation.
Even those of think it’s just a story benefit from that, at least a little. Christ’s teachings are interwoven into Western thought so profoundly that you can’t separate the two. There’s nothing in secular ethics that says individual humans matter. They could just as easily argue that society’s flourishing matters more than a person’s. After all, society is bigger than us and will outlive us. And yet, secular morality almost always assumes people have divine souls worthy of dignity and protection.
Even if they don’t use those words.
Bad things might happen to us.
But remember, a bad thing happened to Jesus. Romans nailed him to a cross and left him there until he died.
And in his death was his greatest victory.
Christ conquered the grave through his death. Christ will defeat the Enemy of Civilisation in time.
So, yeah, you’ll face disasters and disappointments.
Maybe you’ll win despite them.
Maybe you’ll win because of them.
You might as well follow Christ’s example here.
By the way…
Things aren’t hopeless for you. I know you struggle with things, like your career, your goals and maybe even your survival.
Dating has probably never been this difficult.
But in the spirit of Christmas, remember things aren’t hopeless.
There are No Hopeless Men. Whatever makes you feel queasy or uneasy at the thought of dating, there’s a way through that.
I won’t teach you game or rizz or anything like that.
All I show you is how to overcome what’s in your way:
https://christianhypnotism.com/downloads/no-hopeless-men/
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