Mike McCready

Tag: jesus

  • Why Is Christianity Declining In America

    Why Is Christianity Declining In America

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what’s killing Christianity in America. I don’t think it’s the drag brunches or TikTok witches or the “liberal media.” I kinda think it’s the Christians.

    Let me explain.

    For centuries, Christianity grew because of what people saw in those who followed Him. They saw kindness. Integrity. Sacrifice. They saw someone who fed the hungry, healed the sick, sat with the outcasts, and asked His followers to do the same. They saw people living in ways that made others say, “I don’t know what that is, but I want it.”

    That’s how faith spreads. Not by force. Not by law. By witness.

    But something’s shifted.

    More and more Americans—especially young ones—aren’t just walking away from church. They’re running. And not because they’re lazy or sinful or corrupted by culture. They’re walking away because the loudest voices in American Christianity no longer sound anything like Christ.

    They hear cruelty. Smugness. Power grabs. Tax cuts for billionaires. Votes against feeding the poor and healing the sick. They hear talk of guns, walls, surveillance, punishment. They hear fear dressed up as faith.

    And then they look around at the people in their lives—their friends, coworkers, neighbors. The ones who don’t believe. The ones who left church years ago. The ones who don’t talk about Jesus but somehow act more like Him than the ones who won’t shut up about Him.

    And it gets awkward.

    When your billboard says “love your neighbor” but your actions scream “just not that one,” people notice. When the folks claiming moral high ground are publicly more obsessed with bathrooms than hungry kids, it starts to feel like a parody of itself.

    The problem isn’t that Christianity has failed. The problem is that too many self-professed Christians have become terrible advertisements for it.

    And if you’re reading this and feeling defensive, maybe pause and ask yourself why. Are you following Him—or just following people who say they are?

    Because at some point, if the church has become the leading supplier of hypocrisy in your town, you don’t get to blame the devil for the empty pews.

  • What Makes Trump Bad at Business, Life, and As President?

    What Makes Trump Bad at Business, Life, and As President?

    I don’t build companies anymore. I may go back someday. When I found myself with time on my hands, I decided to learn a new skill. Now. I trade gold on the financial markets.

    When I first made that shift, I was terrible at it. Worse than most. Because I came in wired like an entrepreneur—obsessed with control, allergic to surrender. In business, that mindset serves you. You see what isn’t there yet, and you make it happen. You bend the world until it fits your plan.

    But markets don’t bend. Gold doesn’t care about your plans. It doesn’t care who you are. The market humbles everyone eventually.

    Even back when I built companies, though, I never lied to myself about the numbers. You could spin the story, but the math still had to work. That was the line between ambition and delusion.

    And that’s where Donald Trump went off the rails.

    Trump was never really in the real estate business. His true product was himself—the myth, the name, the attention. The buildings and casinos were just props in a lifelong campaign for validation. When your ego is the business, you can’t afford to face reality.

    That’s why he’d make a terrible trader.

    When the world doesn’t fit his story, he simply changes the story. When a recent jobs report came in weak, he fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics and called the numbers “phony.” When intelligence briefings on the Iran strikes contradicted his claim that America had “obliterated” Iran’s nuclear program, he dismissed the analysts and replaced them with loyalists. Each time, he traded truth for ego protection.

    It’s the same reason his casinos collapsed. The Taj Mahal was financed with nearly $700 million in junk bonds at 14% interest—a structure that guaranteed failure unless fantasy-level profits rolled in. When the math didn’t work, he doubled down instead of cutting losses. That’s not risk-taking. That’s denial.

    In trading, denial kills faster than bad luck. You can’t fire the chart. You can’t rebrand a losing position as “fake news.” You take the loss, you adapt, you move on.

    When I started trading gold, I had to unlearn my old wiring—the instinct to fix what’s outside my control. The market doesn’t reward force; it rewards alignment. You win when you stop fighting the tape and start listening to it.

    Trump never learned that lesson. He can’t. His entire existence depends on never admitting he’s wrong. He’s trapped inside the one product he can’t afford to discount: himself.

    That’s why he was a bad businessman.

    It’s why he’d be a disastrous trader.

    And it’s why he’s a dangerous president.

    Because on the world stage—where power, pride, and perception collide—his refusal to face reality doesn’t just cost him money. It costs nations time, credibility, and lives.

    In the end, the markets always find the truth. So does history.

    And the truth always settles the account.