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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#23156 Post contents: Regarding Strauss, I don't think he was so involved in any neopagan project as he was involved in a revisionist project of reading modern values into ancient texts, i.e. of wallpapering over the real West with liberal abstractions. The Greeks and Romans, very tribal and superstitious people, Strauss rewrites as classical liberals guided by "natural right." N.B. that for writers like Cicero the basis of morality was not some abstraction, but rather the concrete mos maiorum, the tradition of his ancestors. So, in their revisionist projects, the real enemy for the neocons is (as Claes G. Ryn has noted) "the ancestral." Sent at: 2008 11 23