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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#23172 Post contents: I'm sorry, but this is the silliest thing I've ever read on Taki's. The author seems totally confused about what Benoist actually advocates. The discussion of the Straussians is a bit better, but even there the author seems to miss the real point of the Straussian dismissal of Christianity. Is it not relevant that Strauss and many of his followers were Jewish intellectuals? I wouldn't expect them to view Christianity favorably any more than I would expect the same from a believer in the pre-Christian religion of Rome. I don't intend to suggest any "Elders of Zion" nonsense; it's just that there is a certain essential antagonism, not necessarily between Jews and Christians as people, but between their religions, since it is one of Christianity's most fundamental claims that Judaism is now obsolete. Whether or not most Straussians are Zionists or religiously Jewish, a degree of resentment based on such an explicit dismissal of their ancestral faith is to be expected. Sent at: 2008 09 07