Your God Used Astrology to Announce His Son

Your Bible is full of astrology.

Genesis says God made the lights in the sky to be signs. Job has God bragging about the constellations He hung. Matthew opens with astrologers from Persia reading the sky, crossing the ancient world, and arriving at the manger before anyone local figured out what had happened. Josephus described the Temple menorah as the seven planets and the shewbread as the zodiac, in writing, to a Roman audience, without embarrassment.

Then the institution built on those texts spent two thousand years telling people that reading the heavens is demonic.

I first wrote about that contradiction in December 2025. The third revision is up now, and it is an omnist's letter rather than an atheist's — I think every tradition carries truth, and I find it genuinely painful to watch one strangle itself.

What is new in this version is everything underneath the argument. The old version stopped at scripture and surveys. This one goes to matter: church closures, the giving collapse, the seminary pipeline, hospital directives, school money, and the civic infrastructure coming apart underneath all of it. Religious giving has fallen from roughly half of all American charitable dollars in the early 1990s to about 23% now. Divinity school enrollment is down 14% in four years. Confidence in the church sits at 33%, splitting 57 / 29 / 17 by party, which means half the country no longer reads it as a religious institution at all.

And I put in the numbers that cut against me, because a letter accusing an institution of quietly revising itself does not get to quietly revise itself. The decline stopped in 2019. Young men are coming back, or at least saying they are. Church closures are slowing rather than accelerating. There is a corrections log at the bottom listing all twenty-nine things I have had to walk back, nearly every one of them removing a claim that was too strong.

If you find a thirtieth, tell me and it goes in the list.

Free to read, like everything I write: Signs in the Heavens: An Omnist's Letter to Christianity.

Produced with AI assistance (Claude, Anthropic). Directed/requested: 20% — I asked for an announcement drawn from the essay. AI-generated: 80% — drafted from my own text without line-level direction. The essay itself carries its own attribution note and a full corrections log.