Empires of Dirt: Secularism, Radical Islam, and the Mere Christendom Alternative

Author(s): Douglas Wilson
Publisher: Canon Press
Price: FREE        (for 3 days)

As it self-destructs, the strategy of secularism (the idea that nations can be religiously neutral) is splitting between American exceptionalism and radical Islam. American exceptionalism, the belief that “America” is more than a nation, is folly. Radical Islam is obviously wrong as well, but Muslims at least own the nature of the current cultural conflict: You must follow somebody, whether it’s Allah, the State, or Jesus Christ. This important and timely book is an analysis of the changing face of religion and politics and also an extended argument for Christian expression of faith in Jesus Christ. This does not mean a withdrawal from politics to our own communities and churches. Instead, we Christians must take what we have learned from the wreck of secularism and build a Christendom of the New Foundation: A network of nations bound together by a formal, public, civic acknowledgment of the lordship of Jesus Christ and the fundamental truth of the Apostles’ Creed.

Release Date: Election Day 2016.

And you could have it all, My empire of dirt… ~ Nine Inch Nails; Johnny Cash

“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings; 
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!” 
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay 
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare 
The lone and level sands stretch far away. 
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, 
And are counted as the small dust of the balance: 
Behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing. 
~ The prophet Isaiah