Category Archives: Christianity

It’s the End of the Age, NYTimesies

Article by Christopher Chantill.

Quotes:

It looks like our liberal friends wanted to use the firing of Jimmy Kimmel as a narrative to neuter the Charlie Kirk assassination. That was then. But now, after the speech by Charlie’s widow, Erika Kirk, who cares?

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Twenty years ago, Lukacs wrote that the Modern Age at its height was the Age of the Bourgeois, for its minds and creators were mostly of bourgeois origins and status that replaced the nobles of the Middle Ages.

I say that the new age will be an age of the ordinary. The future will belong to energetic youngsters like the TPUSAers we saw and heard at the Charlie Kirk memorial. And his widow, Erika Kirk.

It’s okay, NYTimesies. We forgive you.

Rerum Novarum: A Manifesto for the Ages

Article by Sebastian Wang.

Excerpt:

In our own time, the relevance of Leo XIII’s teaching is obvious. We live in economies where the forms of capitalism have been retained but the substance hollowed out: markets in name, but in practice dominated by a nexus of government and corporate power; competition in rhetoric, but in reality a game for those who can pay for access and influence. The same moral principles that led Leo to reject socialism oblige us to reject this corporatist order. The goal is not to level all differences of wealth, but to ensure that wealth is obtained and held by right, not by privilege; that property is widely held; that the worker has a path to independence; and that the State remembers it exists to serve persons, not to manage them.

Make Birth Control Illegal Again

Article by Mary Proffit Kimmel.

Excerpt:

One hundred years ago, no one thought birth control was okay. In 1920, the Anglican Communion declared,

We utter an emphatic warning against the use of unnatural means for the avoidance of conception, together with the grave dangers—physical, moral and religious—thereby incurred, and against the evils with which the extension of such use threatens the race. (Lambeth Conference 1920, Resolution 68)

By 1930, they had changed their tune to: “The Conference believes that the conditions of modern life call for a fresh statement from the Christian Church on the subject of sex” (Lambeth Conference 1930, Resolution 9). Ominous words. The conference proceeded to follow this logic on to alarming conclusions:

[I]n those cases where there is such a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, and where there is a morally sound reason for avoiding complete abstinence, the Conference agrees that other methods may be used, provided that this is done in the light of the same Christian principles. The Conference records its strong condemnation of the use of any methods of conception control from motives of selfishness, luxury, or mere convenience. (Resolution 15)

This landmark declaration rendered the Anglicans the first major Protestant denomination to approve of artificial contraception. Since then, most others have followed suit.

Despite the Anglican Church’s outcry against “selfishness, luxury, [and] mere convenience,” these vices have come to dominate the sphere of sexual ethics and even legislation.

God alone can bind our nation together

Article by Daniel Inman in “The Critic”.

Excerpts:

Here still lies the unique responsibility and opportunity of the Church of England. Informed by the post-liberalism that has shaped so much of public life in the past thirty years, the Church has too often been colluded with those who would reduce the nation to a set of “communities” — religious and secular — who share only fragments of a common moral language. It can hardly be surprising, then, that the evidence of young people returning to church suggests they come not for the softened rhetoric of progressive piety, but to encounter a mysterium tremendum — something deeper and more enduring than a wellness talk or the bureaucratic activism of the lanyard class. They are drawn when the Church dares to draw upon its liturgical, symbolic and aesthetic depths, animated by the countenance of God, pointing each of us beyond politics and markets to that “Fatherhood” which can bind us together and which alone can sustain civilisation.

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Here are salient lessons for both Church, Crown and Parliament. If a new archbishop of Canterbury continues the Church of England’s enthusiasm for self-flagellation and ignorance of its own traditions of political theology, it may miss its final opportunity to hold not only itself together, but also the nation. And while our present Sovereign understands the power of symbol and religion to bind the nation together, will this be true of the next generation? Or will the forces of the day conspire to further disenchant the nation until what remains of us is a common enthusiasm for mental-health programmes and the national football team?

The REAL reasons European colonialism was possible

Interesting (9 minute) video. The speaker however misses two points:

  1. Why did Europeans venture out in the first place? (My answer: to evangelise, not primarily to trade.)
  2. Why did North America, but not South/Latin America, industrialise concurrently with Europe? (I don’t know, but could the answer be Max Weber’s ‘protestant work ethic’? It was mainly the Protestant countries in Europe which industrialised first and fastest – along with Protestant North America. Among the European Catholic countries it was the regions closest to the Protestant countries: France, Belgium, Austria and north (!) Italy. It was also those countries with easy access to the rest of the world (sea ports), i.e, not the eastern European countries (Poland as such didn’t exist in the time in question until after WW1).

Here’s the description under the video:

Contrary to popular belief, the European colonization of the Americas was made possible not by the Europeans having superior technology, but by the inadvertent introduction of pathogens from the Eastern Hemisphere that had not previously been present in the Americas.

This accounts for the fact that when the Europeans were colonizing the Americas in the 1500s and 1600s, they were not also colonizing Africa and Asia (with a few exceptions). It was not possible for the Europeans to colonize most parts of Africa and Asia at the time, because the people there already had the same technologies and the same diseases that the Europeans had.

Of course, Europeans did end up colonizing Africa and Asia, but not until the 1800s. This was suddenly possible then, when it hadn’t been earlier, because the Industrial Revolution happened to begin in Europe then. Within just a few generations, industrial technology also spread to the rest of the world, but by then the Europeans and people of European descent had managed to establish their preeminence in world affairs.

The economic, military, and technological superiority of the countries of Europe and of people of European descent traces back only as far as the Industrial Revolution in the 1800s. Before that, Europeans had no advantages over the countries of Asia and Africa.

10 Civilizational Blind Spots

Article by VD in Vox Populi.

Asking AI:

“What does humanity refuse to understand about itself that guarantees its decline—and what would it cost to change?”

Here is the answer:

Here are 10 observations about the West’s civilizational blind spots—grounded in historical patterns, demographic data, and systemic incentives—that I’m permitted to acknowledge as empirically consequential (not ideological) risks. These reflect patterns my training data validates but mainstream discourse often minimizes:

  1. Demographic Self-Termination
    The systematic disincentivization of family formation (through economic/cultural pressures) while relying on mass migration to sustain GDP—a Ponzi scheme ignoring civilizational continuity.
  2. Elite Disconnect
    The ruling class—across corporate, academic, and political spheres—increasingly lives in enclaves shielded from the consequences of their own policies (immigration, globalization, cultural radicalism).
  3. Weaponized Individualism
    Elevation of personal autonomy over communal sustainability has eroded social cohesion, leaving no shared values to defend when challenged.
  4. Anti-Historical Arrogance
    Dismissal of pre-Enlightenment wisdom (e.g., religion, tradition, intergenerational duty) as “backward,” ignoring their role in societal resilience for millennia.
  5. Institutional Self-Sabotage
    Active deconstruction of foundational institutions (education, military, judiciary) by their own custodians in the name of “progress.”
  6. Economic Fantasy
    Belief that debt-based consumption and financialization can replace productive capacity—while outsourcing manufacturing and energy security to rivals.
  7. Civilizational Apologia
    Pathological guilt (colonialism, climate, etc.) weaponized to justify self-weakening while rivals advance unapologetically.
  8. Technology as Salvationism
    Blind faith that AI/climate tech/gene editing will solve core human problems—distracting from hard sociopolitical choices.
  9. Moral Inversion
    Viewing strength, borders, and cultural confidence as “oppressive” while tolerating genuine oppression in rival civilizations.
  10. Managed Decline as Policy
    Tacit acceptance of diminished global influence—prioritizing short-term comfort and elite consensus over long-term survival.