Re: The Place of Religion in Nationalist Politics
Duchemin, I think that what you say is open to debate.
Indeed the common people have, at large, lost their faith and spirituality. And there lies a problem because with it they have lost also the soul of their identity.
Now, if you notice, in the process they haven't substituted that spiritual soul. Or they have, but what they have done is substituting spirituality with materialism. And there again lies another problem because it is what makes them not care.
Also, you must take into account that the fact that the soul of the people has not found a strong substitute, it is still alive in them even if deep inside. I'm not saying that Nationalism must be based on Religion, but it must be able to offer the people what they are lacking of, to awake their dormant souls. And you cannot achieve that through a new-age construct or through more materialism.
Of course that this is not like saying that I support a Church which is as weakened and even corrupted nowadays that it is impossible to identify her with Christendom. The nations must be reconquered, but it will serve to no purpose if they are to be left without a soul. It will serve to no purpose because that is exactly the departing point of this chaos.
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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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