Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Western culture didn’t collapse overnight—it was hollowed out, piece by piece. What was once shaped by Scripture, natural law, and a shared moral imagination has been replaced by a new orthodoxy that celebrates confusion, mocks restraint, and calls evil good. What we call “progress” is often just the oldest rebellion in fresh packaging. The idols have new names, the altars glow with screens, and the priests wear lab coats or rainbow pins, but the script is ancient: exchange the truth of God for a lie, worship the creature rather than the Creator, and call it freedom. Mike Slater takes a hard look at today’s madness through the unflinching lens of “it has all happened before”—and what Scripture actually says about a civilization that keeps choosing the same dead-end road.
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Western culture didn’t collapse overnight—it was hollowed out, piece by piece. What was once shaped by Scripture, natural law, and a shared moral imagination has been replaced by a new orthodoxy that celebrates confusion, mocks restraint, and calls evil good. What we call “progress” is often just the oldest rebellion in fresh packaging. The idols have new names, the altars glow with screens, and the priests wear lab coats or rainbow pins, but the script is ancient: exchange the truth of God for a lie, worship the creature rather than the Creator, and call it freedom. Mike Slater takes a hard look at today’s madness through the unflinching lens of “it has all happened before”—and what Scripture actually says about a civilization that keeps choosing the same dead-end road.
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The First exists for the massive group of Americans whose voices have been ignored. The people who are passionate about American values, aren’t afraid to engage big ideas, and who care about where the country is headed. The people who are conservative in their views but aren’t beholden to any party’s talking points. The independent thinkers who rely on things like the facts, context, and perspective to inform their ideology. The people who, although they form the backbone of this country, have been cast aside by the politicians and the media.
The people whose beliefs and values are increasingly being cancelled. They are why we created The First. You are why we created The First.
We’re the home of free speech, free ideas, and free TV.
Learn even more at www.thefirsttv.com.
