
S1E144 - Post-Christian Era
Published: March 13, 2026
Duration: 17:35
In Post-Christian Era, Rushdoony rejects the claim that the modern world has moved beyond Christianity, arguing instead that it is humanism not Christianity that is collapsing under its own contradictions. Tracing the Enlightenment’s militant rejection of biblical faith and its eventual descent through Darwin, Freud, and existential despair, he shows how humanism has stripped life of meaning, dignity, and hope, producing a culture marked by nihilism, occultism, and a longing for destruction. Far from facing a post-Christian age, Rushdoony contends that we are witnessing the death of a long post-Christian, humanistic order and the opening of a historic op...