Re: The Place of Religion in Nationalist Politics
In my opinion is a common mistake to [want to] believe that Christianism (could be Eastern Orthodoxy and to some extent Lutheranism too, but here I refer only to Western Catholicism.. or Christianism before the big schisms if you prefer) is anything Jewish and therefore alien to Europe, when it is precisely the opposite.
Firstly, the New Testament tells us that Jesus the God Son comes to deprive the Jews from being God's chosen. His doctrine is, in fact and in essence, opposed to Judaism.
Secondly, it cannot be ignored that Christianism comes in Europe where it adapts to the European peoples by adopting and adapting to their souls, and from there shaping their spirituality, becoming an inherent part of their evolution. At some point surely nothing of the Middle Eastern sould and image has remained, and Christianism even becomes the repository of the traditions, values and spirituality of Europe.
So much so that it acts as a glue that holds Europe together. Before that, Europe is the Graeco-Roman world represented by the Roman Empire, which can stretch as far East as the Middle East or as far South as Northern Africa, while leaving much of Europe out.
With the fall of Rome and the arrival of the Germanic peoples in the West and the Slavic peoples in the East, Europe takes her actual and definete form (until today). Christianism keeps evolving together with Europe and adapting itself to Europe at the same time that it helps Europe to adapt herself to the new times. Christianity in the West becomes strongly influenced by the Germanics, and in the East more or less influenced by the Slavics. That probably helps to the Schism. However the Schism, Christianity keeps being a point of common reference for all despite the aroused differences. A point of common reference and therefore a link between all European nations.
It would be foolish to believe that the bonds of race were as strong as some fallaciously argue. To put an example, the Ostrogoths after being defeated by the Huns had no trauma for joining the armies of the Huns to provide for armforces in the continuous devastation of Europe by the Huns.
Later, no racial cry was issued to defend Vienna from the attack of the Ottomans. If peoples from other Germanic lands, as well as Italians and Spaniards, and others came to succour Vienna it was because of the call of the Western Church to defend Christendom. Others like the French and the English, for their own interests, were in more than friendly terms with the Muslim Turk.
In the Spains, the fight of the Christians against the Muslims only had a racial component when these battles were fought against the intervention of foreign armies (Almohads and Almoravids). The rest of the Reconquista was the story of Christian Spaniards fighting Muslim Spaniards. It is little wonder that Muslims joined the Christians to fight those invading armies of foreigners.
I've taken examples from the West. But more of the same could be said for the East.
Now, what would have been of Spain or Austria today, without Christianity? It is obvious that without Christianity there would have not been Christendom, and without Christendom there would have been no Europe.
It is important to notice is how the fall of Europe is the fall of Christendom. Both in the past and in the present. The destruction of Christianity and her institutions has been the antechamber to the destruction of Europe. Anyone who believes that modern Christian institutions are anything what Christianity was, is a fool.
Which brings in another point: how can anyone say that he is a European and a Nationalist, and at the same time go against Christianity.. Christendom? Those who have devised the destruction of Europe have done a careful and excellent work, a master piece which I'm afraid it goes beyond the comprehension of most of us.
P.S. I have debated myself for long years between my [Western] Christian Tradition, which is the Tradition of my Nation and Patria, and a self-styled agnosticism. No one can accuse me of being a staunch Catholic. If something, I should be accused of having turned my back to my Tradition and therefore to myself, even if unpurposedly.
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–Plato–
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–Gerry McGeough, Irish Nationalist and POW–
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