Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look at an ever-changing culture through the lens of unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

You know, I'm old enough to remember when the cultural opponents that our parents, pastors, and teachers worry about were all materialist.

Not that long ago, the primary opponents of Christianity believed in a naturalistic universe. They rejected the

existence of God or moral absolutes. They were only committed to what was provable by science.

Well, things have taken an unexpected turn. Today, ours is a culture far more interested in

drag queens than Darwinism. Far from being moral relativists, progressive ideologues thunder moral

claims about race, sex, gender, and a whole litany of fabricated rights. Unlike the skeptics of

yesteryear, they have no trouble accepting unprovable, unscientific notions, as long as they're politically

correct. Consider this scene from back in August at the University of Minnesota Med School.

Robert Englander, a physician affiliated with Harvard and Johns Hopkins, led the class of 2026 in a bizarre

alternative to the Hippocratic Oath. Repeating the words in unison, dozens of white-robed students

committed to uproot, and I quote here,

structural violence deeply embedded within the health care system,

and to quote, honor all indigenous ways of healing that have been historically marginalized by Western medicine.

They then vowed to fight white supremacy, colonialism, the gender binary, abelism, and all forms of oppression that now afflict the medical

profession. Now, I doubt that any of this means that the University of Minnesota will now only

certify physicians who prescribe rhinoceros horn and healing drum circles. Still, a university spokesperson

assured reporters that these kinds of hyper-polit politicized oaths are now a common practice

for med schools, and they're designed to, quote, promote humility, integrity, and beneficence

among future doctors. The thing to notice in this whole story is not merely the eerie religiosity

in the midst of a scientific institution, but the way that

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