 What we are now seeing, then, is that if not rooted in Christian truth, those blessings of Western life end up lifeless and in the grave. The good news in all of this, of course, is that rising from graves, well, that's kind of a central theme to Christianity. Christians must not only oppose the various forces of secularism, but they have to resist the pressures of secularization, much like our Christian forefathers from the early church faced down ancient paganism.