In a stirring conversation on Culture and Christianity: The Allen Jackson Podcast, Dr. Ben Carson shared his concerns about the spiritual warfare gripping American culture. The former neurosurgeon and cabinet secretary didn’t mince words as he addressed what he believes is a battle between truth and deception, good and evil.
“There are forces at work—forces for good and forces for evil,” Carson said. “We have completely illogical things going on.”
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Carson described the confusion being sown in society as a deliberate spiritual attack, especially against the most vulnerable—children. “Take little children who are suggestible and confuse them about their gender… it’s child abuse,” he said, referencing gender ideology and cultural messaging targeting minors.
He pointed to a larger, long-standing effort to dismantle biblical values and rewrite morality. “If you look at the congressional record from Jan. 10, 1963… one of them was to change the church from the true gospel to the social gospel,” he said. “To compromise the values and principles… to take things like sexual perversion and make them normal, natural and healthy.”
Carson said today’s culture has rejected objective truth in favor of moral relativism. “You have so many people saying your truth versus my truth versus their truth,” he said. “When there’s no solid principle, which is what God gave us… everybody becomes their own god.”
Despite the troubling signs, Carson called believers to boldness and perseverance. “All we have to do is what is right,” he said. Citing the biblical account of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, Carson emphasized the kind of faith needed in difficult times: “Our God can save us but even if he doesn’t, we’re still going to serve him and not you.”
Quoting Scripture, he warned of a time when spiritual deception would become so persuasive, it could mislead even the faithful. “In the book of Matthew, it says if the time were not cut short, even the very elect would be deceived,” he said. “That should make everybody humble… and we have to seek guidance from God.”
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But Carson insisted the answer is not silence. “When you open your mouth and you stand boldly, that gives permission for other people to do the same thing,” he said. “Courage thrives on courage and it will grow.”
His message was one of hope, urging Christians to stand firm in their faith as the moral landscape shifts. “There’s a right, there’s a wrong, there are values, there are principles,” he said. “You can’t be the land of the free if you’re not the home of the brave.”
James Lasher is staff writer for Charisma Media.
