Posted on 06/02/2013 1:04:38 PM PDT by annalex
My combined monarchy/liberty ping
Just sayin'.
Greater love than this no man hath, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
Read much?
Quite a bit...why do you ask?
Beat me.
All said, in this interview more clearly than before, we see a paradox in this heroic man: while identity of Europe is Christian, his search for it, and his sinful sacrifice, are manifestation of a pagan mind. Splendid mind, but pagan nonetheless.
Because it would not occur to me to post a blatantly anti-Christian slogan in bold letters and without attribution, on a conservative message board.
So who is the white-on-black idiot, if I may ask?
I don’t view it as anti christian at all, but then I’m a fallen away Catholic, now card carrying agnostic with whom you will probably not agree. It was written by your favorite author, no doubt (just kidding) Ayn Rand...it was an oath that John Galt lived by in Atlas Shrugged.
A few notes:
Apparently, the interview was posted in a rush as soon as the news of the suicide reached Sezession. To state “shot himself ... to protest against the introduction of gay marriage in France” is a bit inaccurate; in his suicide note (link in the trailer) Venner cites the reasons and they are not focused solely, not even primarily on the gay “marriage”.
Also, to the “the daily portion of the Bible is prescribed as mandatory in the American schools as the oath to the Stars and Stripes” we can only sigh and fondly remember America.
Very interesting article. Thanks for posting.
I think Venner was extremely wrong in killing himself in the cathedral. This allowed people to dismiss him as a nutcase. Also, suicide to advance Christianity was forbidden by the Church in the very earliest centuries AD.
He should have waited until he could really be martyred, which isn’t going to br long nue.who
It wasn’t me but I’m sure the poster accepts your sentiments.
Ayn Rand and her fictional characters would certainly qualify as “idiot”, even though libertarianism as a whole has healthy ideas here and there.
So how come you are an agnostic? That is a shame. No rational man should be.
That’s really powerful.
Thank you.
I am not sure he was even “advancing Christianity” so much as awakening France, which he viewed as heir of Homer more than of St. Dennis. And that is his cardinal mistake.
However, who is not against us is with us, and this keen student of history served Christian conservatism by giving his life for the Christian and the French civilization, the favorite child of our Mother Church. May Christ look kindly on his despair.
Sigh and remember sumss it up. But at the same time, while I grew up mostly in New York City, I had attended school briefly in a Bible Belt state. They had state-sponsored courses where they told us how awful Catholics were because they “Didn’t believe the Bible.” Jews in NYC treated us better than Protestants did.
So I don’t think we have to go back to that!
Or I could repeat my old joke: I learned the Latin necessary to be an altar boy and then, three years later...after more than two thousand years, they changed the Mass to English.
Back to the oath...I read it as “I will enslave no man and will allow no man to enslave me” and don’t view that as anti christian.
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