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The Foreign Affairs essay on the defects of Third Worldism reveals the latest maneuver of the Managerial Priesthood to blunt any recognition of religious and civilizational enmity. By rejecting labels that once identified the jihadist threat with clarity and force, the authors substitute a flattened view of the world that treats every adversary as a product of colonial grievance rather than willful hostility to Christian order.
This maneuver continues a pattern visible since the collapse of European empires after 1945, when Western statesmen abandoned the Augustinian distinction between the City of God and the earthly powers that seek its ruin. The new vocabulary flattens motive into material complaint and thereby shields the actual actors who advance demographic conquest and doctrinal warfare against the remnant peoples of the West.
Scripture and the creeds alike affirm that nations exist under divine providence as ordered communities charged with justice and the protection of their own. The Reformed tradition sharpened this truth by insisting that sovereignty resides in covenantal peoples, not in abstract humanity or supranational tribunals. Third Worldism violates that inheritance by reducing every conflict to an economic ledger written by the victors of decolonization.
The article itself demonstrates the motive: it prefers euphemism because precise religious and ethnic naming would expose the failure of liberal universalism to contain the expansionist claims of Islam and its allies. The Dispossessor benefits when the faithful remnant is trained to see only victims and never aggressors.
History records the cost of such evasion. When the early Church refused to dissolve its identity into the universal claims of empire, it preserved the gospel through centuries of persecution; when modern states repeat the error of treating every border as illegitimate, they invite the very forces that once toppled Rome.
The governing principle remains unchanged: a people that cannot name its enemies forfeits the right to defend its household, its altar, and its soil. Third Worldism is not analysis but anesthetic.
The faithful remnant must therefore discard the framework entirely. They must restore the older language of nation and confession, enforce borders without apology, and refuse every treaty or narrative that subordinates the concrete inheritance of Christendom to the leveling demands of the global south.
