I recently returned from England, where my time in Oxford and conversations with remnant believers sharpened concerns that have grown during other visits to Ireland, Scotland, Amsterdam, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, and France. These encounters have left me deeply troubled about Europe’s spiritual direction. A continent shaped by Christianity increasingly seems embarrassed by the faith that helped form it, while Christians who still believe the Bible find themselves defending truths their culture once took seriously.
My conclusion is that influential political and cultural leaders are actively advancing a post-Christian Europe for Globalism. I believe the weakening of biblical authority and national identity serves a globalist vision of power increasingly removed from ordinary citizens.
Bruce Bawer’s recent Front-Page Magazine article, “Europe’s Suicide Pact,” offers a related warning: governments are transforming societies while dismissing the people who must live with the consequences. His criticism of multicultural ideology, contempt for their own countries’ citizens, failed integration of Islamic immigrants, and political cowardice are causing Europe to commit civilization suicide. [1]
Walking through Oxford, I was struck by its embrace of the fifteen-minute-city agenda—another scheme imposed by globalist elites using the climate change hoax to justify greater control over people’s lives, moving toward a prison without walls. I also noticed visible expressions of Islam, including buildings named after Islamic donors and women wearing hijabs, in a city with deep Christian associations through figures such as C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien. That contrast left me asking serious questions about Europe’s future and what is becoming of its Christian inheritance.
The desire for a post-Christian future is being discussed openly.
In July 2018, Viktor Orbán accused European elites of moving the continent into a “post-Christian era” in which nations would disappear. His warning identified a fundamental dispute over whether Europe should preserve its Christian inheritance and national distinctions or regard them as obstacles to progress. [2]
In March 2025, Bishop Athanasius Schneider made a more direct accusation in an interview reported by Andreas Wailzer for LifeSiteNews. Schneider argued that powerful elites were using mass migration to change Europe’s identity and diminish Christian influence. I share his concern about policies that weaken a country’s inherited moral framework. [3]
Melania Phillips has noted in her book, The Builder’s Stone, that Western elites are taking a wrecking ball to their own institutions and values because they believe that Western civilization is fundamentally corrupted by colonialism and racism. Consequently, they do not believe its inheritance deserves to be passed on to the next generation. Their project goes beyond correcting historical injustices: it involves dismantling Western culture and institutions. Western civilization rests substantially on Christianity; Christianity rests on Judaism; therefore, attacks on the West’s foundational principles ultimately attack its Christian and Jewish moral inheritance. [4]
In my other discussions and interviews with individuals from Europe, such as Pastor Gary McKibbon of Victory Church Belfast in Ireland and Ken Luff of Hephzibah Oxford in England, elites are making a concerted effort to destroy Europe’s Christian heritage.
McKibbon notes, “When K. Schwab coined the phrase “Build Back Better,” a race was on. Not to build, but to deconstruct! The forerunners in this race…Europe! A collective that decided, in the 2002 resolution, that fundamentalism was at odds with EU goals. Evidently, they did not mean Islamic fundamentalism or the communist, socialist, and leftist fundamentalism that has permeated Europe since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Rather, they meant Christian fundamentalism, specifically the Judeo-Christian bedrock of Western civilization.
