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Entry: Responding to My Respondents Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/responding_to_my_respondents#24127 Post contents: Dear Professor, We are wallowing in the midst of a cultural and demographic crises whilst your poignant commentary re: the lack of motivational activism on the part of a passive Christian populace (which mistakenly equates Western Civilization with Christianity) offers us little hope towards amelioration or a saving of the West. Even less hope is garnished from your description of the neo-pagan critics of the Christian right who being fractional in number and consigned to windowless basements offer much more than comic relief. In this regard, perhaps you are referring to thinkers other than Nietzsche, Heidegger and De Benoist, none of whom profess a literal return to either ancient pagan Gods or the resurrection of now forgotten cults. True, there exists much in their writings, a painted color here or there which from the perspective of a hungry and disaffected critic might be snatched out of context to confirm the alternative, however an honest reading points rather to a beckoning forwards, beyond and through a discredited Christian heritage by way of transcendence vs. a vitriolic wholesale negation. Clearly Nietzsche cuts deeper and often into the bone with his scathing critiques of Christian values but all three writers seem deserving of a proper hearing with mature debate considering our perilous state. The Christian writers on this site appear overly zealous in their denunciation of such writers and their thinking, as if the mere mention of the word paganism, though emanating from their own authentic ethno-cultural roots might actually enrage their adoptive god of Israel. Sent at: 2008 08 28