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Originally Posted by M.R.
You're American, your opinion here is irrelevant and you don't have a clue about Europe or European. Further debate would be waste of my time.
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His opinion is not different by any standards than those of Friedrich Nietzsche and Julius Evola. I couldn't conceive anything more European - at least, more so than the quaint characters who crowd the Holy Bible, which apparently delight so many "religious" folks overseas.
The honourable count de Maistre was used to say that the Gospel, outside the Church, is poison. Hegel acknowledged the historical role of Christianity in introducing the new, previously unheard-of
universal concept of Man. It's true that even an assumed Catholic, like the aforementioned Joseph de Maistre, could be able to point out that "
in the course of my life I have seen Frenchmen, Italians, Russians; I even know, thanks to Montesquieu, that one can be a Persian; but as for Man
, I have never met; if one exists, he is unknown to me".
Anyway, when one continually hears from a supposedly conservative papacy new invitations to the "humane reception of migrants", when all one could expect from the political stance of the Church is an "intransigent" opposition to birth control methods in the Third World, thus contributing to the world demographic catastrophe - one wonders what could be accomplished by sticking to a compromised set of mind, whose very foundations (as it is manifest in the Holy Writing, as interpreted today even by the
only legitimate institution supposedly authorized to do so) are diametrally opposed to what is required by the times.
Any instinctive admiration for the general ethos of feudal Europe, any wholehearted recognition of the immortal greatness of the Holy Roman Empire and the Crusades, doesn't and can't change this.