BOOK REVIEW: Christ or Collapse, a civilization on borrowed time
Part manifesto, part cultural critique, Christ or Collapse by Professor David Millard Haskell asks whether Western societies can preserve Christian values without Christian belief.
In an age of carefully managed language and endless caveats, Professor David Millard Haskell’s new book is startling for its certainty. Can a civilization survive after rejecting the values that built it?
That is the thesis of Christ or Collapse: The Case Against Godless Government, a provocative book arguing Western nations have spent decades living off Christianity’s moral inheritance while dismantling the foundations that produced it—like homeowners content to repaint the walls while a termite infestation erodes the structure beneath.
The author is no stranger to Canada’s culture wars. A professor at Wilfrid Laurier University, Haskell first attracted national attention during the 2017 Lindsay Shepherd affair. He became one of Shepherd’s fiercest defenders after the teaching assistant was investigated and reprimanded for showing a clip of psychologist Jordan Peterson in her tutorial.
