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Christianity Won't Save The West

6/12/2020

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Not because it can't, but because the vast majority of Westerners don't want it to. Let's go a step further - the vast majority of people who identify as Christians don't want it to either. That's difficult to accept, but an honest assessment of our current circumstances make all of this evidently clear, as least as far as I'm concerned. 

I've written several blog posts about Western Civilization and Christianity in which I argued that without the latter, the former would soon collapse. When I wrote those posts here and here, I never could have anticipated that the real potential for collapse would arrive so quickly - but here it is.

Of course, I am not the only blogger in the universe who has made this connection; Bruce Charlton and William Wildblood have been practically screaming it from rooftops for years. But barely anyone has listened. Even now, their voices and the other scattered voices of sanity go unacknowledged. Why? Very simple. Most people in the West are not interested in saving their civilization, let alone their souls. That's really what it comes down to in the end. 

That's not despair on my part - merely the cold acceptance of fact. For months people in the West - and the rest of the world - were subjected to an outright psychological and spiritual terror campaign via the birdemic virus. Though I didn't expect anything of the sort, a small part of me did hope and pray that people in general, and people in the West in particular, might emerge from the lockdown with some semblance of a spiritual awakening. Instead of spiritual awakening we got what some wags on the net have referred to as the 'awokening.' 

The West has never been more spiritually dead than it is now - and I sense it is going to become even 'deader' in the coming weeks and months. 

So, Christianity cannot save the West if the West does not want it to. It's that elementary. Nevertheless, Christianity can save individuals and small groups if we allow it to.  I must stress that by Christianity here I am referring to following the promise of Jesus, not membership in one of our many, all too many hideously corrupt churches. If you happen to belong to one of the handful of uncorrupted churches or some SSPX order or some hidden Orthodox monastery on a mountain somewhere, good on you. As for the rest of us, we're pretty much on our own.

Except we're not - on our own, I mean. First and foremost, we have Christ. Nothing else is really required, but we do also have each other. Though we may not all know each other and may never meet, we are all connected in brotherhood and sisterhood in Christ. This brotherhood and sisterhood is what Western Civilization ought to be; but it isn't. And it hasn't been for a while.  

All the same, each one of us who follows Christ is microcosm of a greater civilization than Western Civilization ever was or could ever be. This civilization reveals the personal God to the world. This civilization not only believes in life everlasting, but orders all of mortal life around it. This civilization honors the sanctity of individual and aligns itself with Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. This civilization is creative. This civilization is Divine Love.

​As long as each of us remains in Truth, as long as each of refuses to live by lies, and as long as each of puts our faith, hope, and love in Christ, this great civilization - this macrocosm which is THE macrocosm - will continue to exist, both here and in life everlasting, even as the formerly great civilization that refuses to save itself continues crumbling all around us.
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Ingemar
6/13/2020 01:05:23

You are absolutely right.

I discussed with Bruce on his blog the reason why the Alt-Right was doomed to fail (and with Lawrence Auster while he was alive, and the term wasn't in the public consciousness) and the reason we all agreed upon is that they were trying to have their cake and eat it too: A "strong" but still secular West.

I think I've distilled it further: the Alt-Right, to the extent they're Christian at all, want a Christ that furthers their conception of what the West is rather than conforming their conception of the West to Christ.

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bruce charlton
6/13/2020 09:35:41

It is indeed becoming increasingly clear that people don't want - but actually hate - Christianity; and not only don't want to save Western Cibilisation but actively ally with almost any notion or action that attacks it.

I feel that the active destruction of our civilisation is even yet being done un-consciously (except at the very top), and would be denied by most of those who are engaged in implementing it.

This is psychologically possible because most people are habitually dishonest and distractible - so that they cannot/ will not follow a line of reasoning.

e.g. People were apparently 'surprised' that the UK economy (by 'official' stats - i.e dishonest) shrank by 20 percent in April alone - as if the fact that shutting almost everything, and almost everybody staying at home would make no difference! They will probably be equally surprised when they experience wage cuts, mass unemployment, massive benefit cuts, and price rises. If we survive that long!

As you say, we are such a corrupted and evil-seeking civilization that it is better that it should end - necessary indeed (e.g. when we began to regard castration of children as a Good Thing, to be encouraged in all schools and at all levels - I think we crossed a bright line).

Yet - because the end is unsought, for the wrong reasons, dishonestly evaded, abetted while denying it... the changes will not produce net benefits.

If, by contrast, there had been a desire, a will, deliberately to make a poorer but more decent world, a less materialistic and more spiritual world, a world directed towards Heaven rather than pleasure; then the deprivations would have had meaning, purpose, and would probably be beneficial.

As it is, we are stumbling into destruction, only semi-conscious, and too dishonest even to admit that this is what we have decided.

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