May 16, 2025

The biggest threat to Christianity isn’t what you think

Attendees raise their hands as they worship inside the tent during the ReAwaken America tour at Cornerstone Church, in Batavia, N.Y., Friday, Aug. 12, 2022. Speaking at the event, Michael Flynn, former national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, is trying to build a movement centered on Christian nationalist ideas, where Christianity is at the center of American life and institutions. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) **FILE**

Christianity is unquestionably under assault in our relativistic, befuddled and rabidly flummoxed culture, with multiple forces increasingly placing intense pressure on the traditional beliefs that were once core to the American identity.

With so much disarray and furor dominating society and chipping away at faithful ethics, one might ponder the many powers at work to discern which is the biggest threat to the faith.

And there’s certainly no shortage of difficulties to choose from when we’re seeking to determine which demonical elements have the most deleterious impact on biblical truth.

The erosion of Judeo-Christian sexual ethics, the rise of socialist values, the ascension of progressive thought in church circles, and the increased prevalence of the “gospel of the self” are just a few of the injurious threats raging around us today.

But there’s one factor we often ignore — and our reluctance on some level to address it is understandable: Christianity is under attack from within.

Don’t get me wrong: The outside forces targeting Christianity are alarming, in full force, and must be patently rejected to protect free speech and liberty.

The biggest threat to Christianity right now is illiteracy, apathy and disregard of the basic facets of devotion to which faith calls us.