This intriguing axiom, coined by the late Andrew Breitbart, is increasingly used during election cycles. While some discount the validity of this claim, undoubtedly there is valuable truth embedded within. As American culture devolves from its customary beliefs and original formularies into more secular, more pagan practices, our self-serving, corrupt politicians are more than happy to accommodate the crumbling.

This is why any positive change, reclamation of faith, renouncement of sin, or turning toward God must happen one soul at a time. It is the call of each believer to not only tend well to their own heart but also cultivate well the souls in the garden of life in which the Lord has placed them.

If you want to change politics, you must change culture. And if you’re going to change culture, you must change lives.

Herod Antipas was a corrupt, perverted, and depraved Roman ruler in Jesus day. His reign embodied a secular, oppressive, deeply divisive quest for power and permanence through manipulation, deception, and the formation of unholy alliances. To be clear, Jesus was not warning believers to avoid political engagement. The leaven of the Kingdom is intended to touch and transform every facet of society, including government.

The warring principalities wreaking chaos and destruction today are maniacally wielding their weapons of choice: Abortion, climate catastrophism, the sterilization, castration, and mutilation of minors, globalism, LGBTQIA2S+ indoctrination of children, anti-purity campaigns, race huckstering, the science of depopulation, and the dim yet deadly tenets of cultural Marxism. Jesus’ dire warning to His followers is to vigilantly guard and protect against this political spirit from flowing into the Body of Christ.

Cultural Christianity? As dastardly as this reverse flow of culture into the Church is, another phenomenon is happening outside the Church that many believers aren’t quite sure what to make of. I consider myself a cultural Christian. I enjoy living in a culturally Christian country, although I do not believe a single word of the Christian faith. ~ Richard Dawkins

It is historically undeniable that the Christian faith was intricately responsible for the formation of Western civilization. The Church led the way in science, education, the arts, and medicine. Literacy, women’s rights, human services, and the abolition of slavery were all pioneered by the Church. So when Dawkins declares he is a cultural Christian, don’t get too excited. He is really saying that he selfishly enjoys the benefits of the fruits of a faith he mocks from a God Whom he disdains.

There is something infantile in the presumption that somebody else parents in the case of children, God in the case of adults has a responsibility to give your life meaning and purpose. Somebody else must be responsible for my well-being, and somebody else must be to blame if I am hurt. Is it a similar infantilism that really lies behind the ‘need’ for a God? ~ Dawkins in The God Delusion~

Though he has not publicly said it, I believe Douglas’ apprehension may be partly due to the fact he is gay. I pray the same God of his youth is wooing him back to repentance and belief. In a recent interview with Jordan Peterson, Elon Musk also donned his jersey for Team Cultural Christian. At age 53, he has already accomplished generations worth of invention, innovation, and success. While I have deep concerns about his work with AI and Neuralink, his purchase of Twitter and the release of the Twitter Files prove to be one of the most effective moves ever taken against government censorship and Big Tech control over free speech.

This brings us to possibly the most famous cultural Christian of all, Dr. Jordan B. Peterson. I must disclose that I have consumed hundreds of hours of his lectures and interviews, read his books, and attended his live show twice. So, while I may be influenced in my analysis, I am also well suited to do so.

It’s not a well-posed question. It’s too complicated an issue to be dealt with like that. What do you mean by ‘believe’? Do you think a statement about God is something like a scientific theory? Is it a factual question or a list of facts? I’ll stake my life on the proposition that God exists. I think that’s the right answer.

When asked, “Is Jesus God?” his willingness to bow low is evident: The figure of Christ is an actual person who lived, plus a myth, so in that sense, Christ is the union of the objective world and the narrative world. Christ seems oddly plausible to me, but I still don’t know what to make of it because it’s far too terrifying a reality to believe. I don’t know what would happen to you if you fully believed it.