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Entry: Is There Conservatism Beyond Christianity? (or how to book a mental vacation in Athens or Valhalla) Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/is_there_conservatism_beyond_christianity_or_how_to_book_a_mental_vacation#23154 Post contents: As children of the West, we are products of both European paganism and Christianity. Western Civilization, in a sense, is a synthesis of these two trends. Even early Christians praised and preserved the pagan writings of their ancestors. While I am no pagan, and while I disagree with much of what Benoist has to say, he is right in his criticism of post-Enlightenment Christianity in that it has become so influenced by egalitarianism that it is in some respects self-destructive. (His criticism here is not unlike Thomas Fleming's observation in Morality of Everyday Life that post-Enlightenment Christianity has dangerously become shaped by universal human rights ideology.) Early European Christianity, which was greatly influenced by paganism, was certainly more vibrant than what we have today. Didn't C.S. Lewis believe that only by returning to paganism could Christianity be resuscitated? Sent at: 2008 09 07