[Travis McGee]

File it under “Suicide of the West.”

It’s a very long book.

[annalex]

Thanks for posting this.

I have been running a short series by Venner following this tragedy:

The reasons for a voluntary death
The revolt of the mothers
“Man must sacrifice his life” – interview with Dominique Venner
The Century 1914

I think, his death, while a sin was also a heroic act; we ought to at least learn about his thinking and heed his warning, as after Europe falls, we are next.

[Mike Darancette]

Lots of people just don’t get Venner. But the left hates him virulently.

[ek_hornbeck]

Venner was a hero of the Algerian war, he has more than paid his dues. His suicide was his way of saying “with me dies the last honorable generation of our countrymen. The rest of you enjoy the multicultural cesspool that you’ve created.”

[Jim Noble]

The mainstream American right has remained almost entirely silent about the recent suicide of the French historian, Dominique Venner. The reasons for this, I do not know

Gee, even I know.

The mainstream American right? There is no such thing.

There aren't 10 000 well-educated and conformed men of the right in the whole country.

The "mainstream" right is riddled with liberalism, collectivism, and equality-mongering.

[onedoug]

So he “respects” the Cathedral by turning the alter into a bloody mess.

[Wanderer99]

Not sure what this guy was thinking but anyone who contemplates the full HORROR of life on Earth would immediately commit suicide.

Earth is a place of unimaginable nightmares. What's amazing is how God prevents the entire human race from committing suicide in one day. Not even sure why I don't have a gun barrel in my mouth right now....there is every reason to.

[Wanderer99]

Of course, this is not what Christians believe. Our home is not this world. But that does not mean we can renounce our duty to care for the good, the true, and the beautiful in this world. Those of us who do not join monasteries are called to care for the political and the highest civilizational things. Dominique Venner, historian and former soldier, sought to found a new resistance to the collapse of European civilization. Whatever civilizational Christians think of his means, we ought to admire his end.

Suicide may be the only logical deed remaining in the world. The leftists and Islamists have effectively removed everything "good, the true, and the beautiful in this world" and God is utterly absent from our lives. Nothing remains.