You don't know me, nor do I know you, but I hope you will find this message in the future archives. You probably believe in God again, and I want to warn you. I am afraid that your generation may find inhumane things, such as denunciation and the oppression of women, normal again. Unfortunately, I know how it could have come to this. I am now in the period when it all started and attended several meetings where big names, whom you probably now find heroes, philosophised about it.

By Mienke de Wilde
There was a decline in Europe after a wonderful period of increasing freedom and tolerance. However, due to the increasing tolerance, we became a little too tolerant and we allowed a lot of orthodox Muslims to come over as refugees from other, less tolerant parts of the world.

We were emancipated and secularised, and because women also had the freedom to work, we had fewer children. Also, because of the increased tensions between citizens of different origins, there was a need for something else to lead us top-down through fear.

As a result, more and more apocalyptic ideas about climate change emerged, but also crazy ideas about men who could be women and vice versa.

I know it sounds wild, but people started earnestly believing that. Even science participated in it at the time. The indigenous youth who had always been taught to listen to that science were instilled with total fear and confusion, and therefore increasingly decided not to have children anymore.

Many Muslims who came here were not bothered by this, because they believed in Allah's Hereafter and not only considered us inferior (kuffars) because of their religion, but within a few decades they also threatened to become the majority because they had way larger families than we had.

Forward-looking realists began to see a future scenario in which they might want to introduce an Islamic state in Europe. Unfortunately, many people remained too naïve, immigration continued, and it seemed more hopeless.

It seemed to be five to twelve, and many of my fellow seculars felt abandoned by the woke "seculars" (who were no longer secular, but wanted to impose another apocalyptic state-funded (godless) religion). The freethinker now connected more with enlightened and open-minded Christians, who no longer believed literally.

Those enlightened Christians saw the danger of Islamisation coming, and so the two groups made an alliance. They wanted to use Christianity as a political instrument to counterbalance Islamization and make the world freer, hopeful, and rational. It was all good-intentioned.

Most did not believe in God at all, but they did believe that a familiar story was needed to bring everyone back together. Again, the Bible could serve as a guideline, but more as a metaphor and only to fill the vacuum.

They thought that secularism caused our generation's moral confusion. Non-believers also started to believe that, and because these "Christians" were very inclusive, rational, and enlightened themselves, many secularists went along with it.

They did not foresee what was coming. Some outspoken atheists and freethinkers even became the greatest messengers of Christianity themselves, while they did not believe in God at all. At that time, however, Christianity seemed, precisely because many no longer believed everything, the quickest and tolerant way to get everyone on the same page again against all the Islamic hatred and woke craziness that resulted in excessive tolerance. The lesser evil, shall we say.

It was merely a political strategy: we needed a quick fix.

Unfortunately, objections and warnings from other secularists were not listened to. They warned that our generation and the leaders of the next generation might still know that it was only a political strategy to prevent an Islamic takeover that might otherwise take place in a few decades. Still, future leaders would have to silence people who say that out loud to keep everyone on the same page.

Otherwise, of course, that strategy will not work, however, because of the lack of transparency about the Christian Renaissance only being a political strategy to counter other radical religiosities, the generations after us would increasingly literally believe in the existence and goodness monopoly of God. And with that, as a people, our future generations themselves will become more intolerant towards rational freethinkers.

I am afraid this has already happened between you and me over the generations. Perhaps you are now also participating in the denunciation of the right people, and maybe you think this piece should be removed from the archives. I hope I'm wrong.

The Renaissance of Christianity was once encouraged with good intentions to counter radical forms of religion and the lack of freedom by people in my generation who did not even really believe in themselves. Because they did not want to listen to the foreseeers who already warned about this, it has probably gone entirely off the rails in your time; you think that there is a God and people who think independently are again unjustly persecuted.

This was never the intention. God does not exist. The people responsible for your faith knew that. It was only a strategy to get people braver and more united to push back those other intolerant religions. But now your generation is doing precisely the same. The persecuted heretics in your generation are right. This was made up again in my time by people who didn't even really believe themselves. Even your heroes.

I was there a decade ago.