Gen. Z. & The Current Ecclesiastical Landscape

I write the below as one who has a son and sons-in-law whom I love who are just a few years older than the Gen. Z. parameters. I also have Gen. Z. chaps in the congregation I serve whom I also love and I witness the difficulties all these men are navigating.

Gen Z white males are done with being shamed and with the notion that they have anything for which to apologize . They’re tired of being treated like the villain in a movie they weren’t even alive to watch, let alone direct. Tired of being told they’re “privileged” while working three jobs and getting shut out of conversations because of their skin color. Tired of being insulted, shamed, and then expected to smile through it to avoid being called racist, fascist, or worse.

They just don’t care anymore. Call them “Racist.” Call them “Misogynist.” Call them “Anti-Semite.” Their response is more than likely going to be given with a quizzical look; “You say that like it’s a bad thing.” They don’t care about your words or what you think. You are irrelevant to them.
Some of us got to this point when Gen. Z were still in diapers. Some of us did the reading and knew the smegma that was being dished out as truth was indeed smegma. Even some of us Boomers long ago were made to walk the social disapproval plank. Some of us considered “Boomers” have done more “struggle sessions” than Jay Leno did guest hosting for Johnny Carson in the day. The result is that not only do we not care, but we who have lived with this shaming routine are absolutely full on nutcase hostile to ANYBODY who dares try to shame us or suggest that somehow we don’t know what we are talking about on any number of subjects that are the bete noire of the Cultural Marxist left.

As for Gen. Z likewise taking this disposition … well the preceding generations have earned their despite. The previous generations (notable exceptions notwithstanding) pushed and lobbed insult/shaming grenades at Gen. Z like they were Oompa Loompas tossing around Jelly Beans at the Willy Wonka factory. Nobody cares anymore. They’re over it. They don’t want your approval. In point of fact they are positively aghast at the notion that you might ever approve them. Take your approval and shove it up your southernmost aperture is their attitude.

Take just one example. There was a time when people would absolutely melt in protest if someone called you a “racist.” Those days are over. When Piers Morgan, in an interview, recently asked Gen. Z. rep Nick Fuentes; “Are you a racist,” Fuentes simply said “yeah, I’m a racist.”

Now I don’t think Fuentes did himself any favors but admitting to Piers Morgan that he was a racist. He should have said instead;

“Look Piers, in your cultural Marxist worldview I am indeed a racist. But I don’t share your worldview and in my Christian worldview I am a man who merely loves his own people first and foremost. I also am not afraid to commit the sin of noticing. However, my committing the sin of noticing  ia something you people from your generation find appalling. Now, I have all of Western civilization history up until 1960 or so on my side on this subject. You have the civil rights movement forward and now the fall of the West on your side. In light of that I have no problem with you wanting to label me a ‘racist.’ You call me a ‘racist,’ I call you an ‘idiot.’
You and your disapproval are just a few years away from the grave. Soon enough your disapproval…. your political correctness… your cultural Marxism … is going to be covered with dirt just like you.

You’ve lost … it’s just a matter of time before you come to accept it.”

The observations above are coming from someone, who, almost weekly, receives unexpected phone calls out of the blue from Gen. Z. types telling me about their latest “struggle session” with their “Elders” at their church, or I get a request to help someone start a church because all the churches in their area are “Piers Morgan like,” or I have young men (remember I’m 66 so it doesn’t take much for someone on the other end of the phone to be a ‘young man’) asking me; “what am I supposed to do in terms of church for myself and my family?” Monthly I take a phone call from a chap in Europe in this situation. He merely wants to know that someone with clerical authority is bleeding with him a little bit. Believe me I do. Recently, a chap from Australia (of all places) phoned asking the same question about what can be done when there are no decent churches.

On this issue the church and the clergy are a wasteland. I can count on my fingers the clergy I would in good conscience steer someone towards (And yes, some of them are even Baptist). Now, I’m confident that there are many more good clergy than I personally know of, but regardless the number is comparatively small.

Consistent with my observations above, the political philosopher Samuel T. Francis, offered over 30 years ago now;

“The institutional Christianity that flourishes today is no longer the same religion as that practiced by Charlemagne and his successors, and it can no longer support the civilization they formed. Indeed, organized Christianity today is the enemy of the West and the race that created it.”
Organized Institutional Christianity in order to be esteemed must be gazed upon from a mile away in order to admire it because the minute you get too close to the organized Institutional Christianity you begin to see how awful and dilapidated it really is. If anyone who is a true believer ever becomes a part of that organized Institutional Christianity they will not be able to last in it for very long due to the monumental gross hypocrisy, terrifying lack of intelligence, and stultifying indistinguishable mediocrity. No one with an ounce of self awareness or self respect can last long in the little shop of horrors that is now Institutional organized Christianity. Some of the best men on the planet that I personally call “friend” have been tossed because they embrace the Christianity that existed prior to 1960 or so.

If one could find a mythical organized central Headquarters of organized Institutional Christianity over the door that serves as the entryway would be the motto;

“Abandon Hope All Ye Who Enter Here.”

So, Gen. Z has very few places to turn in terms of the Christian faith, and that truth should make strong men weep. I know it makes this weak man weep. I can’t say what the result of all this will be but, in the short term, it isn’t good. The highest hope I have is that new Reformed denominations might be started, yet, I know that is a uphill climb that requires a great deal.

Still, the Lord of the Harvest will not be left without His church and there will come a time when the Church will once again be healthy. Be of good cheer my friends for Christ has overcome the world.

Author: jetbrane

I am a Pastor of a small Church in Mid-Michigan who delights in my family, my congregation and my calling. I am postmillennial in my eschatology. Paedo-Calvinist Covenantal in my Christianity Reformed in my Soteriology Presuppositional in my apologetics Familialist in my family theology Agrarian in my regional community social order belief Christianity creates culture and so Christendom in my national social order belief Mythic-Poetic / Grammatical Historical in my Hermeneutic Pre-modern, Medieval, & Feudal before Enlightenment, modernity, & postmodern Reconstructionist / Theonomic in my Worldview One part paleo-conservative / one part micro Libertarian in my politics Systematic and Biblical theology need one another but Systematics has pride of place Some of my favorite authors, Augustine, Turretin, Calvin, Tolkien, Chesterton, Nock, Tozer, Dabney, Bavinck, Wodehouse, Rushdoony, Bahnsen, Schaeffer, C. Van Til, H. Van Til, G. H. Clark, C. Dawson, H. Berman, R. Nash, C. G. Singer, R. Kipling, G. North, J. Edwards, S. Foote, F. Hayek, O. Guiness, J. Witte, M. Rothbard, Clyde Wilson, Mencken, Lasch, Postman, Gatto, T. Boston, Thomas Brooks, Terry Brooks, C. Hodge, J. Calhoun, Llyod-Jones, T. Sowell, A. McClaren, M. Muggeridge, C. F. H. Henry, F. Swarz, M. Henry, G. Marten, P. Schaff, T. S. Elliott, K. Van Hoozer, K. Gentry, etc. My passion is to write in such a way that the Lord Christ might be pleased. It is my hope that people will be challenged to reconsider what are considered the givens of the current culture. Your biggest help to me dear reader will be to often remind me that God is Sovereign and that all that is, is because it pleases him.

6 thoughts on “Gen. Z. & The Current Ecclesiastical Landscape”

  1. Fuentes is a man that goes on pure intuition. When he said “yeah, I’m a racist”, he did so recognizing that it still had some efficacy left that needs to be buried. Unless we treat “racist” along with sexist, homophobe, antisemite etc. as utterly impotent, we haven’t sealed the victory. While you provide an counter attack answer, when you said “I don’t think he did himself any favors”, you flinched, however slightly, and our enemy Satan notices that and takes note of it. Fuentes is right. To seal the deal we must wear it an be openly laugh in their faces as they attempt to use their impotent words.

    1. Hello Chad,

      Nope … you’re wrong.

      He did not do himself any favors because we are not yet at the point where normies are going to understand what you’re saying. Normies have to be told… “Look, the world is going to call you ‘racist’ just like Piers is calling me ‘racist’ and here is what you need to understand about that slur.”

      1. I think you’re both right according to your metrics.

        As you note, Gen Z does not care what Gen Boomer thinks.

        In the short run, normies will blanch, but normies are like women – they will change values with the wind and will follow strong men.

        Still, your imagined response was extremely well-crafted.

  2. I am more a profiler. I profile race, tattoos, hairstyles, clothing styles, language,
    attitude, demeanor, the list goes on and on. I always have my head on a swivel, especially
    in public places. To do otherwise is foolish.

    For observant folks there are always things to consider when coming to a general quick assessment of the people in your surroundings, and what you may need to assume for your own safety.

    Call it what you will, but there are also some tried and true stereotypes that by assuming these
    preconceived ideas just may save your life.

    1. I am a boomer. However, I have brought up my children to be kinists before I had ever heard the term. My son was having a conversation with the girlfriend of one of his friends. In the conversation, he said that he would not race-mix. After some initial shock, he explained himself and the friends girlfriend came to like him.

      I thought that your alternative answer for Nick to Piers Morgan accusation of nick’s being a racist was very good. I will pass that on to younger men. Thanks for your thoughtful analysis of all things under the sun.

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