Discrediting Christ and Disinfo Agents

This video speaks to the anti-faith propaganda that we’ve seen heavily distributed across the Internet through such vehicles as the Zeitgeist documentary, The Secret video, etc.

This video is the first I’ve seen where it is demonstrated that religious teachings were stolen, then co-opted & corrupted. It argues that disregarding the core of religion is a mistake, for religion was deliberately co-opted & corrupted in order to set a trap for the dismissal of its core teachings: biblical faith.

The video continues by arguing that the teachings of Jesus weren’t made up by those who told them. It continues by claiming that the religious teachings introduced by these usurpers were counter-to and unlike anything Jesus would have taught.

It is these subtleties that I believe most people don’t see, as we have witnessed here how so many are willing to throw-out all religious teaching, without understanding the differentiation between core religious teachings from Christ and those of its usurpers.

In Jacques Ellul’s Subversion of Christianity, he ably holds to the essential core of Christian teaching while showing how the church throughout history has consistently been led away from truly living out the gospel — whether by outside forces or by the weight of its own success, the church has continually done exactly the opposite of what the New Testament writers tell us to do. In this book, Ellul takes us through some of the most important missteps in church history and shows how the good news of Grace and Freedom was forced to the side, even with the best of intentions.

Ellul challenges us to find a new way of living out the Gospel, without either conforming ourselves to our present age or rejecting the essential elements of Christian doctrine. If the church is to have any effect, he says, we must return to our origins as a group of subversive individuals who refuse to play along with society’s expectations. Only by being subversive ourselves (as all the heroes of faith have been), can we return Christianity to its place as bearer of good news to a world which needs to hear it.