↔️ Why Christians must reject Leftism

Let me start with two questions.

Do you believe Satanism is evil and wrong?

And do you oppose it?

Of course you answered yes to both — and there’s no contradiction there.

Now here is what I want to convince you of in this article: leftism is evil and wrong in exactly the same way Satanism is. In fact, it may be more dangerous — precisely because Satanism remains a fringe movement that most people dismiss, while left-wing ideology has already captured our culture, media, politics, and education systems. And when you trace both to their roots, they come from the same place.

“The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”

2 Corinthians 10

Through this article, I want to expose left-wing ideology — which sets itself up against the knowledge of God — and bring it captive to Christ.

What is left-wing ideology?

Every worldview answers two questions: what is the world’s greatest problem, and what is the solution? The Christian worldview identifies the problem as human sin (original sin) and the solution as the cross and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Left-wing ideology is a rival worldview — and a profoundly anti-biblical one. It identifies inequality as the world’s greatest evil. Since it believes humanity is inherently good, all suffering must have an external cause: structural oppression, unjust power imbalances. The solution, therefore, is political revolution — to overturn those structures and build a utopia free from inequality.

Follow this logic to its end and you reach a disturbing conclusion. To eliminate inequality, you must eliminate the things that produce inequality: the family (parents inevitably favour their own children), religion (it divides society), and private property (it creates material distinction). Left-wing ideology is not merely a policy preference. It is a comprehensive worldview aimed at dismantling creation itself.

What the Bible actually says

Why is this non-biblical? Not for vague reasons — the Bible addresses this with startling precision.

The Eighth Commandment — “You shall not steal” — enshrines private property as a God-given right. This was genuinely radical in the ancient world, where communal ownership was simply assumed. God’s law cut against tribal collectivism from the very beginning.

The Tenth Commandment cuts even deeper: “You shall not covet your neighbour’s house… nor anything that belongs to your neighbour.” The entire left-wing project — its obsession with inequality, its demand for redistribution — is, at its root, covetousness systematised into a political programme. What leftists call “inequality” is envy with an ideology.

Is material inequality really evil? Every human being bears the image of God and has equal dignity before him — that is non-negotiable. But the Bible also teaches that wealth, honour, and authority will differ between people, and that this is right and proper. The Parable of the Talents makes this stark: in the Kingdom of Heaven, distinctions are not erased but magnified — ten cities for the one who doubled his ten talents. Fascinatingly, the only place in all of Scripture where all distinction vanishes is hell and the lake of fire. The left-wing utopia looks more like hell than heaven.

God grants us free will and personal responsibility. Proverbs warns that laziness brings poverty like a bandit. The New Testament is blunt: “If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat” (2 Thessalonians 3:10). Human dignity includes the dignity of consequences.

Leviticus 19 commands that we must not show partiality in judgement — not even to the poor. This is the foundation of the rule of law: justice is blind, not tilted in favour of any group. The left-wing concepts of “social justice,” “environmental justice,” and “reproductive justice” introduce precisely the tribal partiality God’s law forbids.

Not an ideology — common sense

Here is something worth naming clearly: conservatism is not an ideology. It is common sense. Hard work, honesty, integrity, the protection of family, faith, and private property — these are not a political programme. They are foundational truths about human nature.

It was the Marxists who coined the word “capitalism” — specifically to make these foundational truths sound like a dangerous ideological project. Don’t fall for it.

Why leftism destroys the next generation

The most insidious damage left-wing ideology does is to children, because it teaches them to see themselves as victims of society rather than as agents of their own lives.

I tell my sons: “You are the victim of three things only: your own laziness, your own ignorance, and your own wrong choices. Outside of those three, make no excuses — do your best with what you have been given, now.”

That is the right-wing message. Is it even an ideology? It is simply the truth.

Why does leftism appeal to so many — including believers?

I have thought about this for a long time. I believe the answer begins in the family.

In a healthy family, parents have absolute authority and provide for all their children’s needs equally. The children are loved unconditionally, protected, and given the same food, the same care. This is the only world a child knows for the first decade or more of their life.

Now extrapolate that paradigm to society, and you get left-wing ideology. Of course you do! If equal provision by an all-providing authority is all you have ever known, any inequality in the wider world feels like a violation — a betrayal of the natural order.

But here is what every child must eventually learn: the family is not a model for society. In the family, parental authority is absolute because parents are wholly benevolent guardians. In society, no such guardian exists. The government is not your father. God is.

Some people never learn this. They spend their lives searching for a new parent, and they find one in the state. They fall into government salvationism — the belief that the government can and should provide the security, equality, and provision that only God can truly give. This is not just bad politics. It is idolatry.

What is the government actually for?

Scripture is clear. Romans 13 and 1 Timothy 2:1–2 define the government’s role narrowly: punish lawbreakers and maintain public order. Defence, police, courts. That is it.

We live in a world where the state has ballooned far beyond this mandate — redistributing wealth by force, shaping culture, inserting itself into education and family life. Christians must respect the law, but we should be deeply sceptical of government overreach, especially when it seeks to replace God as our provider and protector.

The Frankfurt School and the long march

Left-wing ideology did not arrive from nowhere. It has a clear lineage.

When the Russian Revolution failed to spark proletarian uprisings across Europe as Marx had predicted, Marxist intellectuals gathered in Frankfurt in the 1930s and produced something more dangerous than Bolshevism: Critical Theory. The Frankfurt School — these thinkers later migrated to Harvard and began what became a century-long conquest of Western academia.

Classical Marxism divided humanity along one axis — economic class (bourgeoisie vs. proletariat). Critical Theory multiplied the axes: gender, race, sexual orientation, religion. Now everyone could be sorted into oppressors and oppressed. The result is a worldview that abolishes individual uniqueness and dignity. Every person is reduced to their group identities and seen purely as a victim of systemic forces.

There is no room for the imago Dei in this framework. There is no individual, only an identity category. There is no sin, only oppression. There is no redemption, only revolution.

The Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci saw clearly what needed to happen to make this revolution succeed. The proletarian uprising was not coming. So instead, he proposed a “war of position”: slow, patient infiltration of every cultural institution — schools, universities, media, churches. The goal was not to seize the state directly but to reshape what people believe, until the revolutionary worldview felt like common sense. Control the culture, and you control everything.

All organisations that are not actually right-wing will over time become left-wing.

O’Sullivan’s First Law

This is why institutions don’t need to be explicitly Marxist to drift leftward. The pressure is always in one direction — and it has been, for a hundred years.

In the United States, this strategy has produced Critical Race Theory, now embedded in school curricula — teaching a generation to see themselves primarily through the lens of racial identity and historical victimhood. The fruits are visible: explosive growth in homelessness and social disorder in cities like New York and San Francisco. During the nationwide BLM riots of 2020, Democratic politicians and the mainstream media did not merely tolerate the chaos — they endorsed and encouraged it.

The ancient heresy at the root of it all

But even the Frankfurt School is not the deepest root.

The philosopher Eric Voegelin and others have traced modern left-wing ideologies back to ancient Gnosticism — the very heresy the Apostle John warned against in his letters.

The ancient Gnostics taught that the physical world was evil — that the God of the Bible, the Creator of the material universe, was an inferior and malevolent deity called the Demiurge. A higher divine feminine being — Sophia, or Gaia — appeared in the form of a serpent and gave humanity true enlightenment. Sound familiar?

Gnosticism declared the creation of male and female to be itself evil — one of the worst acts of the wicked Demiurge. In its place, the Gnostics exalted androgyny: the transcendence of the male-female distinction in a single person. This is not a modern idea. The radical transgender movement is ancient Gnosticism, resurrected and rebranded.

And then there is the serpent’s original lie: “You will be like God.” This is the precise promise of left-wing utopianism — that we can, through human effort and political will, create paradise on earth. The technical term is “immanentising the eschaton”: dragging the Kingdom of Heaven into history by force, without God. In this way, everyone is obsessed with eschatology.

Left-wing ideology is, at its core, Satanism — not the cartoonish, self-aware kind, but the sophisticated, academically respectable kind. The kind that says: God’s creation is evil, God’s law is oppression, and through the right political programme we can become gods ourselves.

The theologians who got it wrong

“I’m not left-wing or right-wing — I’m a centrist.” This is the most common evasion in Christian circles today, and it is precisely as incoherent as saying, “I believe in both God and Satan.” There is no neutral ground in a spiritual war.

Tragically, there are too many moderate and left-leaning theologians who have distorted the gospel to fit this ideology. They redefine the crucifixion as primarily a political act: Jesus died to liberate the oppressed from structural injustice. They claim his redemptive work was not only about salvation from sin but about healing this world’s disease, poverty, and inequality. The ultimate goal becomes not personal salvation but social transformation.

This is a gross misrepresentation. “She will give birth to a son, and you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins.” (Matthew 1:21). Not from poverty. Not from political oppression. From sin.

Consider the evidence on their own terms. If Jesus came primarily for the political liberation of the oppressed, why — living under brutal Roman military occupation — did he never say a single word about the structural injustice of Roman rule? Instead, he said: “If a soldier compels you to go one mile, go with him two.” He said: “Give to Caesar what is Caesar’s.”

One of his twelve disciples, Simon, was a Zealot — a member of a violent revolutionary movement dedicated to overthrowing Roman occupation by force. He came to Jesus as a political revolutionary looking for a political messiah. But after witnessing the crucifixion, the resurrection, and the outpouring of the Spirit at Pentecost, he abandoned his revolutionary agenda entirely and gave his life to preaching the Gospel — unto death.

Why, then, do some Christians today — living in a society incomparably freer and more prosperous than Roman-occupied Judea — fall into the same trap as Simon the Zealot before his conversion? Why do they turn Jesus into a means for their political programme?

Where lasting change actually comes from

Two thousand years of history tell a clear story: lasting social progress does not come from political revolution. It comes from the spread of the Gospel and the transformation of individual lives by the Holy Spirit.

The one revolution in modern history that actually worked — producing durable institutions of justice, liberty, and human dignity — was the American Revolution of 1776. And it succeeded because it was not utopian. The Founding Fathers (mostly Protestant Christians from England) built the Constitution on unchanging biblical foundations: the dignity and freedom of every human being made in God’s image. They were not trying to create paradise. They were trying to create conditions in which sinful humans could live together in ordered liberty. See The Federalist Papers.

America is the oldest living modern nation — the longest-running experiment in biblical political philosophy. That it has been the primary target of the Gramscian cultural revolution for a century is no coincidence.

Don’t be a useful idiot

In Stalinist Marxism there is a term: useful idiot. It describes those who advance left-wing ideology without understanding what they are actually serving — who believe they are fighting for compassion and justice, while promoting an agenda they would reject if they saw it clearly.

The church is full of useful idiots. People who repeat the language of “social justice” without knowing its origins. People who call themselves “centrists” to avoid hard conversations. People who embrace left-leaning theology because it sounds compassionate, unaware they are immanentising the eschaton and preaching a different gospel.

Don’t be one of them.

Stand firm in biblical truth. Defend the values that honour God: hard work, personal responsibility, the family, the rule of law, private property, impartial justice. Resist government overreach — not from selfishness, but because the government is not your Father and never will be.

And above all, do not lose hope. The Kingdom of God will not be built by any political party or social movement. It will come in the glorious appearing of our Lord, who alone will make all things new (Revelation 21:5).

That day is coming. Until then, take every thought captive to Christ.