There is a genocide happening– and it’s not what you think. An ideology of intolerance and hate is actively erasing religious and ethnic diversity. Christians are being persecuted, displaced, and murdered in various regions: Armenians in Nagorno-Karabakh, in countries like Ethiopia, Indonesia, Nigeria, Sudan, but most notably in Christianity’s birthplace, the Middle East.

But it’s not just Christians being erased in the Middle East. It is also other religious and ethnic groups: the Kurds wherever they are, the Yazidis in Iraq, the Alawites and Druze in Syria– virtually any minority. The Jews are also being erased (from the river to the sea) as well, it’s just that they are able to and willing to hit back, and hit back harder.

The same cannot be said for Christians. Perhaps it’s due to political correctness or a misguided interpretation of values, but no country today clearly and unapologetically stands up for the Christian faith and the Western ideals it helped shape—including religious tolerance. History shows us that when the West was threatened, it responded based on a strong and distinct Christian identity—like when Charles Martel stood firm at Tours, when Pope Urban II called for the Crusades, when John III Sobieski charged at Vienna. But today, especially in the West, that identity is fading—or already gone. And that loss is not just sad; it is dangerous. Because without that identity, the West risks losing not only its culture and values, but life itself.