Re: thoughts on nationalism.
I can't speak for everyone. But speaking for myself and my views on nationalism are combined with a more spiritual understanding of the nation. There are, in this matter, far too many things that cannot be explained through science, simply because they do not pertain to the fields with which science is concerned. In my opinion, the attempt to apply a secular humanist vision to nationalism corrupts the very essence of nationalism, for secular humanism is a highly materialistic understanding of things.
Give God what is God's, Caesar what is Caesar's, and Science what is Science's. And give Man what is Man's.
Science is there to serve Man, not the opposite. That a given event or fact of life can be rationally explained through science, does not mean that it should be automatically and strictly applied to our lives. It is there where doctrines like secular humanism become a contradiction, as they ultimately pretend to make of science a religion.
But I'm not sure if we are following the argument..
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.
–Plato–
'Many people, I believe, wish for a society where faith, decency, pro-life convictions and national self-determination within Europe can flourish; and not be swallowed up in a dictatorial EU bureaucracy.'
–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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