The collapse of the West can be averted; but only through the influence of the Church. It is her vision of the person, the family and the common good which will pave the way for our true and genuine liberation. It is the Church which is the vehicle of true progress. Christianity is the antidote to the descent into barbarism arising out of the neo-paganism masquerading as liberation.
"Social Justice" makes me want to puke.
Author sounds like an liberal .
Nope, not trading one type of statist with another. We need freedom, period. Then individual religious folks can practice their respective religions as they see fit.
I respect your views and your faith. But there was such a thing as Inquisitions. They were not very pretty and did not represent progress. We are seeing Inquisitions of another sort by so called progressives now. Who wants to go back to that?
Why was this guy "rooting" for The Who when they have a child pornographer as their lead guitarist?
Bump that!
Well, I hope everyone will take the trouble of reading Deacon Fournier’s whole essay before condemning it.
I think he is right. I would only add that true conservatism rests on the Judaeo-Christian tradition—on Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem, and the foundation of Christianity in the West. The Constitution draws its basic ideas about rights from the Natural Law derived from Judaism, Christianity, and classical philosophy—the “unalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” of the Declaration of Independence.
You cannot have a free people unless they are willing to govern and discipline themselves. And you can’t have that without the basic underpinning of religion—Christianity in particular. That is what has set the West apart from every other civilization, and given us our ideas of freedom.
This doesn’t mean that EVERYONE has to be a Christian. But it does mean that we need a Great Awakening of some kind, a return to Christian practice and beliefs. Otherwise, the conservative revolution will have no solid foundations to build on.
I find especially useful to understanding this Christopher Dawson’s ground-breaking books. Everyone who wants to see a return to America’s traditional values should especially read Dawson’s book Religion and the Rise of Western Culture.
http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Western-Culture-Christopher-Dawson/dp/0385421109
Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals, Rule 4: Make opponents live up to their own book of rules. “You can kill them with this, for they can no more obey their own rules than the Christian church can live up to Christianity.”
Keep the Christianity at home and in the community. Once you run on it and especially if you win, you just gave the left what they look for.
Evangelicals especially have been noted to shed us of some of our best conservatives, allowing hte Liberals to take over, due to what certain Evangelicals decide is not proper for a public official.
That we end up with someone much worse from the Democrats doesn’t seem to phase them, only that we maintain a “pure appearance.”
Agree 100%. We need to return to the “Rock” of western civilization.
The book below should be a mandatory history text and reading in all schools and colleges.
Editorial: We Do Not Need a Conservative Revolution. We need a Christian Revolution
only if they are conservative Christians.
Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is Liberty!
Definitely not interest in your “Christian Revolution” if it’s just a cover to impose Catholicism.
Sorry, but trading a Thugocracy for a Theocracy does nothing for me...
An authentic "culture of life" is something that has its source and sustenance as a gift of God, and is not something that can be built or constructed by men solely through their "political, social, and cultural efforts." Where is the author's acknowledgement of the originating and sustaining power of God's Providence in this paragraph? I for one don't see it there or elsewhere in the essay -- instead, I see ample evidence of a knee-jerk Enlightenment humanism that would have made my old university professors giddy.
I'd argue that the "hippy-dippy" and platitudinous positions taken by the author throughout the paper go far to prove my point.
The collapse of the West can be averted; but only through the influence of the Church. It is her vision of the person, the family and the common good which will pave the way for our true and genuine liberation. It is the Church which is the vehicle of true progress. Christianity is the antidote to the descent into barbarism arising out of the neo-paganism masquerading as liberation.
"The West" -- which appears to have been collapsing ever since it was first identified by political thinkers -- will fall if God wills it to fall.
The Roman Empire in both the West and the East fell despite the contemporary presence of "the Church." Which leads me to believe that, apparently, "the Church" may have more important things to do than to be an instrumentality for the propping up of societies, civilizations, or whatever.
The author's use of vague, hippy-dippy boilerplate phrases like "true and genuine liberation" and "vehicle of true progress" is eerily reminiscent of the SovCom and ChiCom propaganda that was popular in the 60s and 70s. Caveat emptor
We don't need a Cultural, or a Conservative, or a Christian Revolution. We don't need a Revolution, period. God forbid. Instead, we need God. And whether or not God gifts us what we need -- to bless our efforts...and more -- is up to Him.
The collapse of the West can be averted; but only through the influence of the Church. It is her vision of the person, the family and the common good which will pave the way for our true and genuine liberation. It is the Church which is the vehicle of true progress. Christianity is the antidote to the descent into barbarism arising out of the neo-paganism masquerading as liberation.
The country is melting away. While the philosophers ponder, some of us are hoping the country is saved from total destruction. Or else there won't be a country left when this “Christian Revolution” arrives.
Conservative Revolution. Moderate Revolution. Mixed-up Revolution. Whatever it takes to keep the country in one piece until the people sober up.
Paul became a Greek to the Greeks, “to win as many as possible” (1 Corinthians 9:19).
Something that Fournier could think about:
Reagan often used the term “cultural revival” because that is the language of America and isn’t seen as some sort of threat for a political takeover.
The term is close to what Fournier means, but “Christian Revolution” is a parochial term that is not part of American culture. Fournier (and other pro-family political types) will have to become “American to the Americans” and learn to speak the language if they ever wish to be understood by people outside their niche audience.