When the church retreats, the family weakens, and truth becomes negotiable, the state rarely stays small. Kuyper’s warning was never about politics alone—it was about what happens when fear replaces God as the highest authority. Long before our current cultural confusion, Abraham Kuyper saw a problem that modern society still struggles to name. The problem was not merely political. It was not merely religious. It was not merely educational or economic. It was a problem of mis