Jeremiah Wright, May 20, 2026
he Western world was Christianised for well over a thousand years. The knowledge of God was not hidden in a corner. It shaped laws, language, art, music, education, marriage, burial, morality, and the very way people understood reality. God was not treated as an idea to be added to life. He was assumed as the ground of life itself.
That is why the modern rebellion is so serious. The West did not merely forget God in ignorance. It rebelled against the light it had received. It had churches, Bibles, creeds, hymns, martyrs, reformers, preachers, and generations of Christian witness. To reject God after all that required more than unbelief. It required war against reality itself.
“For even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks” (Romans 1:21).
When a culture has seen so much light and still chooses darkness, it does not become neutral. It becomes hardened. It must rename sin, redefine truth, distort nature, mock holiness, and pretend that man can build meaning without the Creator who made him.
Scripture says men “suppress the truth in unrighteousness” (Romans 1:18). That is the story of much of the modern West. It did not simply lose God. It pushed Him away and then tried to live as though His absence would not destroy everything.
But reality does not bend because man rebels. God remains God. His truth remains truth. His law remains written upon the conscience. His Son remains the only Saviour.
“The earth is the Lord’s, and all it contains, the world, and those who dwell in it” (Psalm 24:1).