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By John Stonestreet<\/span><\/span>, Op-ed contributor Wednesday, November 05, 2025<\/span>GIORGIO VIERA\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n

The Christian idea that humans are made in the image and likeness of God is the only source for universal human dignity, human rights, and human value in human history. As philosopher Luc Ferry wrote in his book,\u00a0A Brief History of Thought:<\/em> \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cChristianity was to introduce the notion that men were equal in dignity, an unprecedented idea at the time and one to which the world owes its entire democratic inheritance.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Of course, Christianity received its understanding of how God created people from the Hebrew Old Testament.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A commitment to the doctrine of\u00a0imago Dei\u00a0<\/em>requires that Christians oppose any idea that reduces humans to some other identity. Just as Christians must reject LGBT ideology and critical race theory for saying what is not true about the human person, Christians must reject antisemitism, especially in the wake of Tucker Carlson\u2019s soft-pedal platforming of Nick Fuentes. Hateful views about the Jewish people have been prevalent on the political Left and have now emerged on the political Right. These views must be repudiated, no matter which side of the political spectrum they are found.\u00a0<\/p>\n

What will happen now in the wake of Tucker Carlson\u2019s interview may well determine whether Fuentes and his\u00a0\u201cGroyper\u201d movement are mainstreamed or pushed back beyond the shadowy margins of the conservative movement. Either way, Christians must be first and foremost committed to the biblical description of the universe and the human person over and above any political loyalties. Thus, this growing antisemitism coming from the political Right must be soundly condemned. Whether from the Left or the Right, antisemitism is morally evil.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Chuck Colson used to say that ideologies are best understood based on how they answer the question, \u201cWhat\u2019s really wrong with the world.\u201d Throughout history, antisemitic movements have answered that question with a who, not a what. Columnist Rod Dreher recently offered this summary\u00a0of Hannah Arendt\u2019s definitive post-World War II\u00a0analysis of anti-Semitism\u00a0in the context of the Nazi rise to power during her generation:\u00a0<\/p>\n

The basic argument Arendt makes is that anti-Semitism provides a scapegoat\u00a0<\/em>that can unite a badly fragmented society around a common enemy, even if it is\u00a0<\/em>detached from reality. Jews become the all-purpose enemy whose existence explains\u00a0<\/em>society\u2019s troubles with deadly simplicity. The more popular it becomes, the more\u00a0<\/em>society becomes conditioned to think of individuals as faceless collective groups.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u2026 Moreover, anti-Semitism exploits the willingness of atomized people, devoid\u00a0<\/em>of meaning and structure, and their willingness to believe any fiction that restores\u00a0<\/em>purpose and order to their lives. And it justifies terror against the Other as a way\u00a0<\/em>of restoring the lost order for which people long.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

The greatest evils in human history, including the Holocaust,\u00a0began by identifying a group of people as the problem with the world. In\u00a0The Gulag Archipelago<\/em>, Alexandr Solzhenitsyn answered those who demonized a specific group of people this way:\u00a0<\/p>\n

If only it were all so simple! If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously\u00a0<\/em>committing evil deeds, and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of\u00a0<\/em>us and destroy them. But \u2026 [t]he line separating good and evil passes not\u00a0<\/em>through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either \u2014 but right <\/em>through every human heart \u2014 and through all human hearts.<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

In \u201cGroyper\u201d ideology, the evil and irrational hatred of certain groups, especially the Jews, is offered in place of a Christian understanding of Creation and the Fall. If the biblical understanding of\u00a0imago Dei<\/em> has been the most consequential good idea in human history, racialized ideas about people have been the worst. They must not be tolerated. They should not be platformed. They should not even be left unchallenged. At least in terms of numbers, these are the bad ideas that have claimed the most victims.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Christians will find enemies to the left and to the right. There, people themselves made in the image of God, have been taken captive by what Paul called, \u201chollow and deceptive philosophies\u201d and, elsewhere, \u201cspiritual forces of evil.\u201d Our job, Paul said, is to \u201cdestroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God.\u201d We do this in hopeful prayer\u00a0that,\u00a0<\/p>\n

God may perhaps grant them repentance leading to a knowledge of the truth, and\u00a0<\/em>they may come to their senses and escape from the snare of the devil, after being\u00a0<\/em>captured by him to do his will.<\/em><\/p>\n

Originally published at BreakPoint.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

John Stonestreet serves as president of the Colson Center, equipping Christians to live with clarity, confidence, and courage in today’s cultural moment. A sought-after speaker and author on faith, culture, theology, worldview, education, and apologetics, he has co-authored five books, including A Practical Guide to Culture, A Student\u2019s Guide to Culture, and Restoring All Things. John hosts Breakpoint, the nationally syndicated commentary founded by Chuck Colson, and The Point, a daily one-minute feature on worldview and cultural issues. Previously, he held leadership roles at Summit Ministries and taught biblical studies at Bryan College (TN). He lives in Colorado Springs, Colorado, with his wife, Sarah, and their four children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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