Posted on 06/28/2019 7:12:51 AM PDT by Antoninus
If only the article carried through with its title in that explanation.
What caused World War 1 was a bunch of monarchs playing Empire games. None of them ruled with the approval of people. They were in deadly competition after the scramble for Africa and China. They were all looking for an excuse.
Too bad that isn't true. Our intent may have been to "give" them freedom … what they actually got is socialism.
Fr. Ripperger has some fascinating things to say about this in his article and talk, called "The Sixth Generation":
Thanks for the article, by the way.
It was the meeting of modern technology and antiquated Generals and monarchs who cared not a whit about the citizenry. The bloody result was predictable. I doubt they would have stopped even knowing. The proof is that they didn’t stop when it did get nightmarish.
Thry merely searched the world for more bodies from people they cared even less about. That’s where we came in.
It’s laughable that it was called the war to make the world safe for democracy.
I had the same question.
I surmise he means that as absolute monarchs gave way to Democracy in Europe, that the death rattles of authoritarianism that spawned two world wars and the cold war, too, pitting authoritarian model governments, though not literal monarchies, against Democracy.
The author believes that authoritarianism embodied in monarchy is the essence of Christianity and that once commoners are allowed to make decisions upon reason rather than upon blind acceptance of faith, that Christianity is undermined. He may be right.
That’s utterly wrong. The Holy Roman empire ended in 1801 under onslaught from Napoleon.
The Nazis were not the successors to the HRE
Christianity continued even post world war two. The mortal wound was the sixties. Church attendance plummeted post that era.
Nihilism, atheism and collectivism were introduced during the French revolution.
You are correct. There is a very good book called “The Russian origins of the first world war “ that I strongly recommend
Rot. Europe was Christian from 378AD and most of Western Europe was Catholic until the 1500s
Thanks to Blackjack Pershing in changing tactics/strategy to win WWI. I’ve always admired the guy.
A good series on the path to WWI - BBC series “ A Fall of Eagles”. It was shown in the US in the 1970s. You can buy it off Amazon. Its based on a book of the same title. The book is interesting because it has a lot of interviews with the grandchildren. The interviews had - “grand-papa this & grand-mama that”.... it all sounded very familiar and ordinary....very human & very sad!
Yes, and it took the collective slaughter of WWI and the aftermath to give these ideas broad acceptance throughout all of Europe.
You could take it one step further back to Descartes, who turned God into a convenient, abstract stop-gap against his infinite regress into “questioning everything.” And (as my old philosophy professor once noted), he set the mind-body problem in motion that has so many of today’s secular intellectuals totally lost in their mental and psychological machinations, unable to get the slightest clue about reality by looking at reality.
They had broad acceptance due to the French revolution. Read about the 1848 communist uprisings all over Europe. Nihilism spread in parts of Russia from 1917-1939
Atheism didn’t spread due to the wars
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