Something has gone deeply wrong.
In a country that claims to be built on spiritual values, we’ve watched faith become a weapon. The pulpit has turned into a podium for power. Sacred language has been hijacked to justify violence, greed, control, and division.
And for many of us watching from the sidelines — or from the pews — it feels like we’ve entered a new age of Christinsanity.
No, it’s not a kind word. But neither is the world we’re living in — where faith is too often divorced from compassion, and God is invoked to justify injustice. It’s time to name it for what it is. And then it’s time to move toward something better.
It’s time for a national turn toward spiritual sanity.
What Is Spiritual Sanity?
Spiritual sanity isn’t a doctrine, a denomination, or a dogma. It’s a posture — a way of grounding ourselves in honesty, humility, and shared human dignity.
Where Christinsanity seeks domination, spiritual sanity seeks dialogue.
Where Christinsanity obsesses over control, spiritual sanity cultivates compassion.
Where Christinsanity imposes fear, spiritual sanity inspires freedom.
Spiritual sanity asks deeper questions:
- Is our faith making us more kind, or more cruel?
- Are we protecting the vulnerable, or protecting institutions?
- Do we use sacred texts to challenge injustice, or to justify it?
What Christinsanity Looks Like
You’ve seen it:
- Weaponized Bible verses used to justify bigotry.
- Megachurches preaching prosperity while people sleep on the street.
- Politicians wrapping their corruption in crosses and calling it “Christian values.”
- Fear-based sermons convincing people they need to earn love or burn forever.
That’s not holiness.
That’s Christinsanity — the sickness that happens when power wears a halo.
What Spiritual Sanity Offers
Imagine something different:
- A country where your religion doesn’t need to dominate mine for either of us to thrive.
- A world where faith leaders speak truth to power, not bow to it.
- A culture where spiritual life is judged by how we treat the poor, the outsider, and the Earth, not how loudly we preach.
Spiritual sanity invites us to:
- Practice compassion before conversion.
- Build justice instead of empire.
- Ask better questions, instead of clinging to easy answers.
This Isn’t Anti-Religion — It’s Pro-Humanity
Let’s be clear: This isn’t about destroying religion. It’s about liberating it from those who’ve twisted it. There are countless people of faith — Christians included — who are doing the hard work of healing, serving, questioning, and transforming.
But to get to where we need to go, we have to confront what’s broken.
We have to name the Christinsanity.
And then — together — we start building something grounded, honest, and whole.
The Road Ahead
This post is the first in a new series called Spiritual Sanity. In the coming weeks, we’ll explore:
- What compassion-centered economics looks like.
- How spiritual wisdom can inform activism without turning it into a crusade.
- Why religious trauma needs more attention and less shame.
- And how we can dream — seriously — about a spiritually sane world.
Because this isn’t just a rant.
It’s a call.
A cry.
A vision.
Not for more rules. But for more room to breathe.
Not for louder preaching. But for deeper listening.
Not for religious domination. But for sacred liberation.
Ready to walk with us?
Let’s trade in fear for truth.
Let’s lay down control and pick up compassion.
Let’s leave Christinsanity behind — and take one bold step toward spiritual sanity.