Eric Metaxas’s Letter To The American Church Documentary Is NGMI

“Not gonna make it” is a modern colloquial expression. It is often used in online communities, particularly in gaming and internet culture, to express that someone is not likely to succeed or achieve a particular goal. The term is typically used in a lighthearted or joking manner, but it can also convey a sense of sympathy or disappointment for the person in question. And that is the response that Eric Metaxas’s documentary adaptation of his book invokes.

Perhaps the first flaw is the premise of a bad comparison of the American church now to the one in 1930s Germany. Working with TPUSA Faith and the Epoch Times, Eric Metaxes produced this documentary.

The film lays out the parallels between early 1930’s Nazi Germany and other totalitarian regimes with what is happening in America today and how the church has been mostly silent facing this evil.

Eric and several leading conservative voices of today, explain how cultural Marxism has taken over America, including the church.

This film is a wake-up call to the church to stand up and speak out against the evil that is manifesting in our country.

Our cast gives practical examples on how to take action and turn our country back to freedom, liberty, and ultimately, God Himself.

The picture Metaxas paints is that the church is silent in the wake of the present evil of Marxism. The banal revelation is treated as stunning by way of the trailer’s music. Yet in 2024, when the tide of Cultural Marxism is beginning to recede from public opinion, there is one group that can be credited with holding out long enough and creating a critical mass of resistance, and that’s the Evangelical subculture. We funded the Enemies Within The Church documentary which came out in 2021. And that was before it was cool to call out wokeness. So to avoid the banality of being yet another documentary retreading the same ground, as after EWTC Salem produced their version, Metaxas and TPUSA focus on historic parallels between America and Nazi Germany, Maoist China, and Stalin’s regime. The Bonhoeffer respector is unaware of how tired World War II comparisons are.

Yet one historic event unmentioned was the Spanish Civil War whereby Christianity was a major target of the communists in Spain. As America succumbs to Cultural Marxism, a documentary on solutions should maybe borrow insight from the one regime that successfully brought a nation back from communism.

Instead, we are promised Charlie Kirk’s platitudes and James Lindsay lecturing Christians. James Lindsay hates Christians and this has been routinely made clear. He is also woke on gender and sexuality. Last year he prophesied of a transvestite George Floyd so as to stir inaction on the right. Relying on James Lindsay is not a good way to counter Cultural Marxism. It’s a good way to conserve previous iterations of Cultural Marxism, in other words, lose more slowly.

And thus this documentary is dead on arrival in terms of being able to influence the church and broader culture. It’s a day late and a dollar short. It’s NGMI.