Gospel Built

The case for Christ — philosophically, sociologically, psychologically, politically, economically.

When even secular scholarship points to Him, we're watching.

[Gospel Built @gospel_built]

The Enlightenment didn't give us individual rights.

The Church did.

Here's the case — and it's stronger than you'd expect.

[Gospel Built @gospel_built]

Monogamy is so mainstream we treat it as a birthright.

It isn't. For most of human history, polygyny (one man + multiple women) was the norm.

What ended it wasn't feminism. It wasn't the Enlightenment.

It was the Church.

Most just don't know it.

[Gospel Built @gospel_built]

You expect your partner to be faithful. That expectation has a history.

Harvard anthropologist Joseph Henrich traces every modern monogamy law — Japan, China, Turkey, India — to one source.

Christianity didn't just save souls. It changed marriage for the entire world.

[Gospel Built @gospel_built]

Mahler said this about music, not faith.

He wasn't a committed Christian. He just understood that true tradition passes on living fire, not dead ritual.

The irony? He accidentally made a beautiful case for ancient faith.

Two thousand years later and the fire is still there.

[Gospel Built @gospel_built]

Most credit the Enlightenment for mass literacy. Wrong.

It started in the Protestant Reformation and a theological conviction: every man, and woman, should read the Bible themselves.

Harvard anthropologist Joseph Henrich explains.
Not politics. Not economics. Christianity.

[Gospel Built @gospel_built]

Paul agreed: our weapons aren't physical — they're built to demolish arguments. (2 Cor. 10:4-5)

The war has always been over ideas. But too many believers don't know the profound good Christ has brought to the world — and you can't defend what you don't know.

[Gospel Built @gospel_built]

Our culture calls old ideas "outdated" as if that settles the argument.

Lewis had a name for that: chronological snobbery.

New isn't smarter. Old isn't wrong. The question is whether something is true — and that has nothing to do with when it was written.

[Gospel Built @gospel_built]

We live in one of the most aggressively anti-Christian moments in history. Mocked. Dismissed. Caricatured.

Churchill knew something about truth surviving its attackers.

But truth still needs its voices — not to defend it, but so people meet it accurately, not as a strawman.