Christ is the Good Part of Every Worldly Culture

The people of the World have various methods of living. One, which I paint with the wide brush of "Stoics", sometimes crops up in books, and they mimic some of Christ's attributes. I've noticed it throughout cultures and philosophies of living. The example here takes on a laid-back appearance until they've had enough with whatever is around them, and then they claim that they're full up of that nonsense and lash out. The idea is that they have ultimate control and are rationally responding at the very end of the filling up of the cup of wickedness. Of course, that's what Christ is doing right now, and when He returns, His wrath will be intense and definitive, but He'll have waited with absolute patience in this way. Only when evil has done everything it can do will He make a total end of the World and remake it to rule over Himself for a thousand years. And while that's another conversation, consider for a moment how Christ is the Fountain of Youth and the greatest Hero for dead-lifting all of humanity to single-handedly pay the exceedingly rare price - the unique price - of human sin. That's why, except for the Father, Who gave Him the World, He will be the Just King Who rules by right, not of conquering people, but by right of conquering the people's only truly deadly foe. And when He has, by Himself, put down the last evil at the end of His Millennial reign on Earth, He will defeat death and return the Kingdom to His Father, Who so graciously allowed Him to save the World!

People in all Worldly cultures have their greatest pride in their own strength, which very often looks surprisingly similar to something we know about Jesus from God's Word.