Matters of Life and Death Rediscovering evil
Mar 4, 2026
A wide-ranging look at spiritual evil as a real, personal force alongside human wrongdoing. They trace how materialism and therapeutic thinking have obscured demonized agency. Biblical motifs like Jesus binding the strong man, Christus Victor, and spiritual armor are explored. The conversation connects cosmic conflict to culture, politics and even AI, urging renewed attention to discernment and prayer.
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Materialism Masks Spiritual Malevolence
- Materialist technologists lack a conceptual category for personal, spiritual evil which makes them blind to malevolent agency.
- John Wyatt links C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength to modern AI culture where ones-and-zeros thinking can't account for demonic deception.
Christian Belief vs Christian Practice On Evil
- Christians officially recognise spiritual evil and an active enemy, yet many live as functional materialists who emphasize psychological causes instead.
- Tim Wyatt and John Wyatt trace this to post-Enlightenment disenchantment and a therapeutic framing of sin.
War Zone Imagery For A Porous Cosmos
- John Wyatt uses the contrast of an empty Wild West frontier versus 1944 continental Europe to show two mentalities about inhabiting the world.
- The wartime image communicates invisible titanic battles much closer to the biblical porous cosmos.
