Review: Letter to the American Church documentary

By Lt Col Eric Vogel, USAF ret
USAFA ’73

The documentary movie Letter to the American Church is magnificent. Based on the book by Eric Metaxas, it premiered February 8th. You can view it through The Epoch Times online, $4.99 for subscribers, $9.99 for others. It is one hour long, packed with history, insights, and stark warnings.

The documentary follows the book and is just as hard-hitting, even more so. The visuals add much to the key points. The narration by Metaxas is combined with segments of interviews of key combatants in the battle against neo-Marxism in our cultural institutions.

James Lindsay, John Amanchukwu (pastor, author, activist), Charlie Kirk, and a number of pastors are all eloquent, incisive, and powerful in their analyses of the major threats to our country.

Much of the focus is on the American Church — which is falling into a trap just like the German Church did in the 1930s — and the American education system. Family, Religion and Property must be destroyed as part of the plan for a Marxist takeover.

Tragically, the plan is working and will continue to succeed — unless we wake up.

Additional by Major General Joe Arbuckle:

This film has a powerful message and is highly recommended. The theme of the documentary is “silence in the face of evil, is evil itself”; meaning of course, part of the evil plan is to silence people from speaking out. As we know, this is an important part of the Marxist strategy—silence the religious and do away with religion.

Letter to the American Church website

Book Description:

In an earnest and searing wake-up call, the author of the bestseller Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Martyr, Prophet, Spy warns of the haunting similarities between today’s American church and the German church of the 1930s. Echoing Bonhoeffer’s prophetic call, Eric Metaxas exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil before it is too late.

“Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.
Not to speak is to speak.
Not to act is to act.
God will not hold us guiltless.”

Can it really be God’s will that His children be silent at a time like this? Decrying the cowardice that masquerades as godly meekness, Eric Metaxas summons the Church to battle.

The author of a bestselling biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Metaxas reveals the haunting similarities between today’s American Church and the German Church of the 1930s. Echoing the German martyr’s prophetic call, he exhorts his fellow Christians to repent of their silence in the face of evil.

An attenuated and unbiblical “faith” based on what Bonhoeffer called “cheap grace” has sapped the spiritual vitality of millions of Americans. Paying lip service to an insipid “evangelism,” they shrink from combating the evils of our time. Metaxas refutes the pernicious lie that fighting evil politicizes Christianity. As Bonhoeffer and other heroes of the faith insisted, the Church has an irreplaceable role in the culture of a nation. It is our duty to fight the powers of darkness, especially on behalf of the weak and vulnerable.

Silence is not an option. God calls us to defend the unborn, to confront the lies of cultural Marxism, and to battle the globalist tyranny that crushes human freedom. Confident that this is His fight, the Church must overcome fear and enter the fray, armed with the spiritual weapons of prayer, self-sacrifice, and love.