October 7 and the Spirit of Division
Remembering the Souls we Lost...
…And the Truth we Cannot Ignore
This morning I did a livestream trying to connect a few dots. Building on earlier posts, I want to share some of the truths I’ve come to see as transcendent — and which, in my view, humanity needs right now. Here’s a more organized version of those thoughts.
The Day the World Changed
Two years ago, on October 7th, 2023, the world watched in horror as terrorists broke out of Gaza and launched a brutal attack on Israel. It was a day of murder, rape, and sheer evil. Everyone of good will should condemn what happened on that day, and not just the acts themselves, but the spirit behind them.
Because evil is not only what people do — it is the spirit that animates them. A spirit of hatred that festers, infects, and twists human beings until they no longer see their victims as fellow souls.
That day did not just kill bodies. It revealed something about our world: the spirit of division is alive, and it is consuming us.
Agnosticism Won’t Save Us
I speak as someone raised Catholic, who walked away as soon as I was old enough not to be dragged to Mass. I called myself agnostic. Like many in the West, I thought: religion is outdated, irrelevant, even silly. Why bother?
But on October 7th, 2023, I realized something: nothing matters more than the religious question. Because it is this question — about who we are, why we are here, and who God is — that has done the most damage when misunderstood, and the most healing when rightly grasped.
The Secular Dream
After the traumas of the World Wars, many intellectuals in the West decided that religion itself was the problem. Thinkers like Karl Popper proposed a new path: eliminate religion, replace it with secular humanism, and unite humanity under science and reason.
This vision bled into evolutionary theory, into secular accounts of human origins. We were told we all descend from a common ancestor — Lucy the ape, mutated into Adam the proto-human — and from there branched into different races. The point was to flatten humanity into biology, to erase religious divisions by making us all products of the same evolutionary story.
But here’s the irony: instead of healing division, this framework hardened it. Evolutionary theory became one of the most racialized lenses ever applied to humanity. It told us our differences were not only cultural but genetic, measurable, permanent.
And with that, the secular dream began to unravel.
Race, Culture, and the Trap of Materialism
Secular materialism tells us we are our genes. That “race” is destiny. That identity is written in DNA. You see this in controversial books like Nicholas Wade’s A Troublesome Inheritance, which tries to explain human cultures and differences as genetic inevitabilities.
But Jesus Christ shattered that framework.
He was born a Jew, to a people who believed themselves chosen. But His message was radical: “It is not your race that matters, it is your heart. And all nations, all people, are invited into the family of God.”
This is the turning point. Judaism held the seed, but Christ opened it to the world. He told His people: if you cling to race, tribe, or exclusivity, you have missed the point.
False Eschatons
Yet instead of listening, we built new idols. Today, secular elites pursue Agenda 2030, transhumanism, bio-digital convergence. They dream of decoding the perfect genome, editing away disease, even uploading consciousness. In their eyes, salvation is not in God but in technology.
This is nothing less than a secular parody of revelation — a counterfeit apocalypse.
We are repeating the story of the Fall: grasping at the fruit of knowledge, thinking it will make us like gods. But instead of wisdom, it produces death.
The True Revelation
October 7th reminds us of this: when humans fight over land, race, or ideology, souls are lost. Precious souls. Jewish, Muslim, Christian, secular — every one of them is a child of God.
The evolutionary story says we are all one family by chance. Christ says we are one family by design. And that difference is everything.
Because when we reject Him, we don’t just lose our faith — we lose our humanity. We become the Antichrist: not a horned figure from a movie, but us, when we refuse brotherhood, when we betray our Creator, when we let division reign.
The Path Forward
Two years on, as we mourn those lost, let us not honor them with more division. Let us remember the only truth that can heal:
There is one God. He made us. He calls us brothers and sisters.
The world changed on October 7, 2023.
But the real question is: will we change?
Will we keep building false eschatons, or will we turn back to the true disclosure that already came — the Resurrection of Jesus Christ?
Because until we do, we will keep devouring one another.
Jesus walks. Respect it. God bless.