There have been some snide remarks in certain circles that the author of this considers himself fit for public office:
"Outside the uniquely self-existent and the infinitely perfect God of Abrahamic monotheism, this or that generic, dependent, finite and imperfect deity may or may not exist in actual fact. Who knows? But each of them speaks of and to the human experience of something that is absolutely real, namely Saint Paul's elemental spirits, which are Saint John's fallen angels. Even in the House of Israel, there were prophets of Baal as well as prophets of God. And there still are."
Well, millions of Saint Paul's elemental spirits, which are Saint John's fallen angels, are worshipped in India, and Britain's present governing party has been forging a communal alliance with those worshippers for some years, even to the point of having re-legalised the caste discrimination that the the last Labour Government had outlawed. There are three Brahmins in the present Cabinet. Are they, the hereditary priests of Saint Paul's elemental spirits which are Saint John's fallen angels, also unfit for public office?
Not that Paganism is resurgent in our midst only because of relatively recent immigration from parts of the world where it remains the norm. Alain de Benoist may not be a believing Pagan, as Charles Maurras was not a believing Catholic, but, like Maurras, he expects and prefers that those who are knowingly or unknowingly influenced by him will have none of his own supposed sophistication. And all the way down to Wotanism, they do not.
There will be more of this, among other things such as the spread of Islam in the West, again with little or nothing to do with immigration. De Benoist has long been favourable to Islam as an alternative both to American materialism and to Marxism. He envisages an alliance, but many of his successors will not. Conversion to Islam will be obvious to those who were not willing or able to follow Aleksandr Dugin down the path of adherence to an esoteric branch of the Old Believers.
As both the Nouvelle Droite and Eurasianism collapsed under the inherent contractions of Nietzsche and Heidegger respectively, so, again, Islam would fill the vacuum. Over on the neoconservative side, where Iran was now the great enemy, conversion to Sunnism would be just about the most pointed way of declaring one's rejection of Shi'ism, and there is plenty of Gulf money in it.
Correspondingly, the Islam that would be most likely to attract reactionary critics of the order that neoconservatism sought to impose on the world would be the Shia Islam of the neoconservatives' enemies rather than the Sunni Islam of the neoconservatives' paymasters. But even more likely than any of this would be the emergence of a neo-Judaism that expressed and then justified neoconservative economic, social, cultural and political aspirations and actions. The converts to this would be relatively few, but they would be hugely influential.
None of this ought ever to have been on the cards. But as the old liberal Modernity has collapsed, then the Catholic Church has largely failed to articulate from the treasures of Her own Tradition the reasons why that collapse was always inevitable, and the answers to the questions that that collapse has presented. So people have looked elsewhere. While the Church abides in apology rather than in apologetics, then they will continue to look elsewhere. Yet those treasures are there, in the Tradition. Those reasons are there, in the Tradition. Those answers are there, in the Tradition.
Do not be distracted. Clerical celibacy is a disciplinary issue, and the Amazon Synod was never going to change it, anyway. But the worship of fertility symbols is heresy, blasphemy, idolatry and sacrilege. It is clearly already going on. And it is not only going on up the Amazon, or when the Amazon might occasionally flow into the Tiber. Nor, at this rate, will it be.
Not that Paganism is resurgent in our midst only because of relatively recent immigration from parts of the world where it remains the norm. Alain de Benoist may not be a believing Pagan, as Charles Maurras was not a believing Catholic, but, like Maurras, he expects and prefers that those who are knowingly or unknowingly influenced by him will have none of his own supposed sophistication. And all the way down to Wotanism, they do not.
There will be more of this, among other things such as the spread of Islam in the West, again with little or nothing to do with immigration. De Benoist has long been favourable to Islam as an alternative both to American materialism and to Marxism. He envisages an alliance, but many of his successors will not. Conversion to Islam will be obvious to those who were not willing or able to follow Aleksandr Dugin down the path of adherence to an esoteric branch of the Old Believers.
As both the Nouvelle Droite and Eurasianism collapsed under the inherent contractions of Nietzsche and Heidegger respectively, so, again, Islam would fill the vacuum. Over on the neoconservative side, where Iran was now the great enemy, conversion to Sunnism would be just about the most pointed way of declaring one's rejection of Shi'ism, and there is plenty of Gulf money in it.
Correspondingly, the Islam that would be most likely to attract reactionary critics of the order that neoconservatism sought to impose on the world would be the Shia Islam of the neoconservatives' enemies rather than the Sunni Islam of the neoconservatives' paymasters. But even more likely than any of this would be the emergence of a neo-Judaism that expressed and then justified neoconservative economic, social, cultural and political aspirations and actions. The converts to this would be relatively few, but they would be hugely influential.
None of this ought ever to have been on the cards. But as the old liberal Modernity has collapsed, then the Catholic Church has largely failed to articulate from the treasures of Her own Tradition the reasons why that collapse was always inevitable, and the answers to the questions that that collapse has presented. So people have looked elsewhere. While the Church abides in apology rather than in apologetics, then they will continue to look elsewhere. Yet those treasures are there, in the Tradition. Those reasons are there, in the Tradition. Those answers are there, in the Tradition.
Do not be distracted. Clerical celibacy is a disciplinary issue, and the Amazon Synod was never going to change it, anyway. But the worship of fertility symbols is heresy, blasphemy, idolatry and sacrilege. It is clearly already going on. And it is not only going on up the Amazon, or when the Amazon might occasionally flow into the Tiber. Nor, at this rate, will it be.
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