Tag: religion

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Warning: this review may contain spoilers.

Human fascination with extraterrestrial life has never been merely a scientific curiosity. It belongs, rather, to that deeper region where metaphysics, fear, hope, and civilizational fatigue begin to overlap. The alien is not only an imagined inhabitant of distant stars; it is a mirror placed before mankind, forcing us to contemplate the possibility that our history, our religions, our wars, and our self-importance may be provincial episodes within a far vaster order.

Popular culture has absorbed this fascination with unusual intensity because it allows the cosmic question to enter ordinary life. (more…)

You can buy Jonathan Bowden’s Extremists: Studies in Metapolitics here.

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Edited by Greg Johnson and Peter Jacobi

In 1995, Jonathan Bowden self-published his Collected Works in 6 volumes (London: Avant-Garde, 1995), edited by Jürgen Schwartz, one of Bowden’s pen names. The six volumes comprise 27 distinct books, 12 of which had been previously published. Altogether, the Collected Works contain more than 2,600 pages of rare early Bowden. (more…)

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In American public life, few phrases are as pervasive—and as misleading—as “Judeo-Christian values.” Politicians from both parties routinely invoke the term to describe the moral foundations of the United States, suggesting a shared religious heritage between Jews and Christians that supposedly binds the nation together. (more…)

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The waxing and waning of religious practices, cultural customs, and social norms has been a theme throughout history. There was a time when classical paganism was decadent and it was Christianity that offered the zealous alternative. (more…)

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An article appeared recently on both Iron Ink and Tribal Theocrat defending the “dissident Christian right” against the charge that Christian nationalism is little more than a “woke right” heresy. The case for the defense, as set out by the pseudonymous author (“jetbrane” or “Enos Powell,” take your pick), rests upon a description of the ontology, epistemology, anthropology, teleology, and axiology of the “dissident Christian right.” (more…)

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Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (more…)

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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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Part 1 here

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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English original here; Dutch, Estonian, French, German, Slovak, Spanish

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