Tag: religion

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In George Eliot’s Middlemarch (1871), “The Key to All Mythologies” is the name of Edward Casaubon’s doomed academic project, written on the basis that ‘all the mythical systems or erratic mythical fragments in the world were corruptions of a tradition originally revealed.’ Not only is the project doomed by a scope larger than any one life could contain, but it can also be said to weigh like lead on both the life of Casaubon and on the life of his young bride Dorothea Brooke. (more…)

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In Part 1, I laid out the historical significance of Christianity to European Civilization and the ultimate shortcomings that it undoubtedly has in retrospect. While this may have suggested a sort of anti-Christianity on my part, this could not be farther from the truth. The issue with Christianity was never that it could not produce a functioning society as a general system. (more…)

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Aki Cederberg, photography by Justine Cederberg
Holy Europe
North Augusta, SC: Arcana Europa, 2024

Several years ago, a curious incident occurred at Rennes-le-Château, the mysterious church in Southern France that partially inspired the bestsellers Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The DaVinci Code. A young Arab woman dressed in a cape and mask used an axe to behead a statue in the church and to hack at the holy water font sitting on its shoulders. (more…)

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Today on the Right, there is much discussion of religion in the West, and for good reason. Whether we are talking about reactionaries who wish to wind back the clock to Protestantism, Catholicism, Paganism, or esoteric Traditionalism—or futurists looking forward to a new Nietzschean or vitalist dispensation—just about everyone on the Right has some position (or positions, often contradictory) on religion and its relationship to Rightist politics. (more…)

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René Guénon was born on November 15, 1886. Along with Julius Evola, Guénon was one of the leading figures in the Traditionalist school, which has deeply influenced my own outlook and the metapolitical mission and editorial agenda of Counter-Currents Publishing and North American New Right. (For a sense of my differences with Guénon, see my lecture on “Vico and the New Right.”)

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Na potrzeby niniejszego eseju definiuję religię jako wspólnotową praktykę czczenia świętości. (more…)

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W jaki sposób możemy nawrócić ludzi na biały nacjonalizm? Aby odpowiedzieć na to pytanie, musimy zapytać samych siebie, jak sami nawróciliśmy się, a potem postąpić tak z innymi. (more…)

Jean Cousin, The Last Judgement (ca. 1585) (Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons)

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Christian evangelicals — or fundamentalists, to be a little less precise — are in the unenviable position of catching flak from both the Left and the Right. There are some points which have already been discussed quite a bit already on our side of it. On the bright side, they tend to have their hearts in the right place, along with some healthy values. Overall they’re good people, despite what the Leftists say about them, except for certain bloviating televangelists who really are that bad. (more…)

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Phil Eiger Newmann, Flannery O’Connor, 2021

Like her near-contemporary Gore Vidal (both were born in 1925), the fiction writer Mary Flannery O’Connor had her first brush with fame via a Pathé movie newsreel. She had a pet chicken whom she’d taught to walk backward. Gore’s fame came a few years later when he piloted an airplane, age ten. (more…)

Ivan Kramskoy, Christ in the Wilderness (1872)

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I started to seriously observe Lent with my grandmother on my mom’s side of the family about 15 years ago. She was Eastern Orthodox, and I am too – or at least I was baptized as such as a baby. On Fat Tuesday I usually stop eating around lunch. I fast on Ash Wednesday with no food, just water and black coffee. Then, sometime on Thursday I break the fast and start my Lenten restrictions (or Lenten sacrifice). (more…)

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Millennial Woes (official website here) did a solo Ask Me Anything on the latest broadcast of Counter-Currents Radio, and it is now available for download and online listening. (more…)

Joos van Craesbeeck, The Temptation of St. Anthony (1650)

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The New York Times quoted French social critic Jacques Barzun when they defined decadence as the “economic stagnation, institutional decay and cultural and intellectual exhaustion at a high level of material prosperity and technological development,” in a 2020 article entitled “The Age of Decadence.” (more…)

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A efectos prácticos, definiré religión como la práctica comunitaria de honrar lo sagrado. (more…)