There is a growing sentiment, particularly amongst Christian conservatives and reactionaries, that the men of ‘The West’ should—indeed must—form an alliance with the Muslims who have flooded into our countries.
I suppose that all of these 'ideologies' are models, whether it be ethnonationalism or 'christian nationalism'. Models are just conceptual frameworks, and all models are wrong, but some are just useful. Similarly, tools are useful, but each only at certain tasks. It strikes me that people are treating the ideologies as ends in and of themselves, instead of imagining the world they want and reverse engineering it with these 'tools'.
If Christianity is your only tool, then when the migration question comes around, you've got to accept endless dinghy loads 'as long as they're Christian, and maybe even not Christian'. This is a case of an ideology using YOU as a tool, instead of the other way around! I'm reminded of that GK Chesterton (I think) quote you're fond of about 'any system where a man can fall in love, get married, have kids, grow cabbage' etc.
I should balance my comment by repeating that since the rona-hoax of 2020 I have met a disproportionate amount of Christians who see through the lies, as compared with the population in general. But it does seem that Christianity and Islam that they perpetuate themselves as they use people as tools and not vice versa, to evangelize, baptize their children etc. I guess this makes them 'memes' in the truest sense (they get passed down like 'genes', which is where the word comes from).
Absolutely. I thought about addressing this as well. A lot of Christians on the right scoff at the idea that a religion should be politically useful. This is a charge they level against pagans who claim ethnically-based traditions serve us (like a tool) better than Christianity. Christians respond by saying religion should be about ‘truth’ and ‘epistemology’, not pragmatic and earthly utility.
But obviously religion is politically useful and political in its nature. Christians themselves prove this by making Christianity a political force, and wishing it were even more so. This is what I mean when I say that the ‘right’ has been so defeated that it’s now turning to religious ‘tools’ and injecting religious fervor into its politics.
As far as Christians seeing through the Rona Hoax, it’s a yes and no. It goes back to being misguided opposition. Some Christians objected to taking the vax because it contained luciferase. They took apart the letters of Pfizer so that they spelt Lucifer and thus concluded that Pfizer couldn’t be trusted. At the same time, they didn’t really oppose what was being done because they believe it’s all prophecy fulfillment anyway.
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I suppose that all of these 'ideologies' are models, whether it be ethnonationalism or 'christian nationalism'. Models are just conceptual frameworks, and all models are wrong, but some are just useful. Similarly, tools are useful, but each only at certain tasks. It strikes me that people are treating the ideologies as ends in and of themselves, instead of imagining the world they want and reverse engineering it with these 'tools'.
If Christianity is your only tool, then when the migration question comes around, you've got to accept endless dinghy loads 'as long as they're Christian, and maybe even not Christian'. This is a case of an ideology using YOU as a tool, instead of the other way around! I'm reminded of that GK Chesterton (I think) quote you're fond of about 'any system where a man can fall in love, get married, have kids, grow cabbage' etc.
I should balance my comment by repeating that since the rona-hoax of 2020 I have met a disproportionate amount of Christians who see through the lies, as compared with the population in general. But it does seem that Christianity and Islam that they perpetuate themselves as they use people as tools and not vice versa, to evangelize, baptize their children etc. I guess this makes them 'memes' in the truest sense (they get passed down like 'genes', which is where the word comes from).
Absolutely. I thought about addressing this as well. A lot of Christians on the right scoff at the idea that a religion should be politically useful. This is a charge they level against pagans who claim ethnically-based traditions serve us (like a tool) better than Christianity. Christians respond by saying religion should be about ‘truth’ and ‘epistemology’, not pragmatic and earthly utility.
But obviously religion is politically useful and political in its nature. Christians themselves prove this by making Christianity a political force, and wishing it were even more so. This is what I mean when I say that the ‘right’ has been so defeated that it’s now turning to religious ‘tools’ and injecting religious fervor into its politics.
As far as Christians seeing through the Rona Hoax, it’s a yes and no. It goes back to being misguided opposition. Some Christians objected to taking the vax because it contained luciferase. They took apart the letters of Pfizer so that they spelt Lucifer and thus concluded that Pfizer couldn’t be trusted. At the same time, they didn’t really oppose what was being done because they believe it’s all prophecy fulfillment anyway.