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Entry: Post-Christian America Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/post_christian_america#27614 Post contents: However much I esteem (and I certainly do) Mr. Buchanan as one of the great cultural warriors of our times, this article, however truthful and helpful in its observation regarding the degeneration of our times, performs a far superior service by clearly articulating what must be THE most significant falsehood infecting our declining Western Civilization. In fact, it may very well be the mother lode of bogus humbuggery at the root of our cultural ethnocide as well as our inability to coalesce as an authentic conservative Right capable of stemming the tide of destruction. It is also a falsehood which has spawned a multitude of equally bogus syllogisms which like the Aids virus move by stealth throughout the organism rendering our natural immune system incapacitated to deal with an attack upon our very body and Being. Mr. Buchanan states it most clearly when he informs us “Christianity is the cornerstone of Western Civilization.” One is reminded of Nietzsche when he criticizes those men who cannot conceive of history beyond the knowledge of their own grandparents. At least Tertullian had the sense to recognize a possible debt to our authentic roots when he formulated his famous question re: Athens vs. Jerusalem. Positing Christianity as the ultimate “good,” and/or as the well intending Christian conservative writers (particularly as found between the pages of Chronicles magazine – paleo or otherwise) never tire to profess, namely, that a return to a former Christian State would eliminate most, if not all of our current societal ills fails to account for those ills which might emanate from the Christian ethos. In other words, what if the antidote turned out to be the poison? Christianity, one of the three great monotheisms emanating from the Old Testament God of Israel must come under scrutiny. Perhaps it is time for us to look deeply inward and ask ourselves the most difficult of questions? Should Christianity share in some, if not much of the blame with respect to our prevailing Western diseases? Hyper-individualism; crass materialism; inflated egalitarianism; an effete masculinity; identity confusion; not to mention the narcissism re: the eco-system may have more to do with the flowering of our Christian roots rather than a departure from such roots? While our Christian heritage brings much that is noble and good in its wake, it seems high time we began to question whether it also has a dark side, and whether it may be the breeder of values contributing to our demise? Sent at: 2008 11 20