Christians are engaged in a cultural worldview battle. Our two most prominent adversaries are the philosophical forces of modernism and postmodernism. Modernism, assembles its atheistic forces and engages the Bible and its adherents in conventional warfare. These skirmishes are often conducted in college auditoriums where the generals of each side spar in a war of words. Postmodernism, on the other hand, infiltrates our churches and seminaries setting up terrorist sleeper cells just waiting for their cell phones to go off ordering them to take out perceived intolerance. Postmodernists look just like us, go to our churches, and attend the same events, but unbeknownst to us have hidden anti-intellectual explosives in their underwear and we seem clueless until a doctrinal explosion rocks our sanctuary. We can keep the modernists at bay because we know their battle plan and have Patriots that can take out their arguments before they enter Christian air space. The postmodern terrorists, however, are completely different because they frequently hide behind the innocent non-combatants of love and tolerance, perfectly willing to accept civilian grammar casualties to advance their cause rather than engage logical arguments in hand-to-hand combat

We may wake up one day to find police cars surrounding the house next door, handcuffing our neighbor, and taking him downtown because as it turns out he was a postmodernist butchering the truth and burying it in his backyard. We never saw it coming; this man who “kept to himself and seemed to love dogs” was a serial truth killer, and we’re overtaken by the uneasy feeling that he might have buried some of his victims under our own serenity garden.

Atheists are not the real enemy, but rather it is the postmodern spiritual cancer metastasizing in our churches. We need to follow the therapeutic advice of the Great Physician and undergo Christ chemotherapy. We may be temporarily plagued with religious hair loss, nausea, and vomiting, but in the end, we can be postmodern cancer survivors.