Course: Why the World Hates Christianity (with Luke Behncke)
Course Overview
Why does the world hate Christianity? Not because of culture wars, politics, or philosophy, but because it strikes at the very foundations of human existence. Beneath history and ideology lie hidden forces—and Christianity confronts them directly.
Christianity is not one religion among many. It declares itself the axis of reality, the hinge on which humanity’s future turns in its guided evolution. The Incarnation, Resurrection, and Ascension were not events in time but seismic ruptures—explosions of Divine power poured into the bloodstream of our species. In them, “The Way” was opened: a passage toward the birth of a new humanity.
The Gospel is not mere wisdom. It is fire. It unmasks the ego, exposes illusion, and demands the impossible: to die in order to live, to lose in order to gain, to surrender everything in order to inherit all. Such force collides with human nature, igniting resistance, division, and fury. Christianity is not hated because it is weak, but because it is unbearably strong.
This course explores why Christ provokes the most visceral energetic reaction in history—and why, two thousand years on, His power still divides kingdoms, unmasks hearts, and calls forth a new humanity.
Prepare to be turned upside down.
Our Schedule
3 Zoom Classes/1 one-on-one session
Begins November 1/2025
Times Saturday 6am EST (New York), Saturday 12pm CET (Paris), Sunday 8pm AEDT (Melbourne)
Session 1: November 1st• Gurdjieff and modern Christianity
Session 2: November 7th• Gurdjieff and Original Christianity
Session 3: November 14th • Gurdjieff and God
Session 4 • One-on-One meetings - to be arranged with individual participants.
Price: €300/250€/100€ Tiers
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
What You Will Learn
● Why the Incarnation is the great energetic rupture of history—the moment when eternity tore into time, splitting not only calendars but the human heart itself, forcing every person into confrontation with the power of Christ.
● Why the energy of Christ can never be reduced to the Church—why no institution, however vast or ancient, can contain Him, and why His living Presence continues to burn through every distortion, betrayal, or compromise.
● Why modern atheism is spiritual impotence—an incapacity to integrate Divine energies leading to a forced-need to reject them, creating a collapse into illusion, and a narcotic denial of transcendence and responsibility that fragments and imprisons the soul rather than liberates it.
● Why Christianity is not merely opposed but feared—because it releases into the world the most transformative energy ever unleashed: the very life of God, a fire that consumes illusions, dissolves the ego, and calls forth the birth of a new humanity.
COURSE CONTENT
Sessions
November 1st
Session 1: The Offense of Christ
Dive into Christianity's core scandal—the ultimatum of Christ—and trace the energetic blueprint of guided evolution. Explore why this force provokes visceral hatred, unmasking atheism as a toxic denial.
November 8th
Session 2: Christ Is Not the Church
Unpack the vital distinction between Christ and institutions, revealing His irrepressible energy that permeates all life. Challenge illusions in atheism, politics, and religion, urging direct confrontation with His Presence.
November 15
CET. Session 3: The Hardest Way: Theosis
Explore Christianity's ultimate aim—divine union through theosis. Confront the terror of transformation, why it provokes hatred, and how Gurdjieff translates this ancient path for today.
About your facilitator
Facilitator:
Luke Behncke is a follower of Christ and practitioner of the Gurdjieff Work, and has been working with groups and individuals around the world since 2000. He is the author of Gurdjieff’s Christianity: The Fourth Way’s Prehistoric Teachings of Christ and faithmadeflesh.com. His work draws on a background in rural and outback Australia, business, technology, biomedical science, education, religion, and art.