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The West has been dying for five hundred years, heart-cut by the twin blows of schism and scientific "enlightenment". What we're hearing now (and are likely to hear for some time) are merely the death-rattles. Christendom was ther soul of the West, without it, the corpus began to fragment and decay. The triumph of atomistic individualism, empowered by the technology of materialist science, represents the victory of cell over organism -- in other words, disintegration. And, like cells cut off from the living organism, the death of the individual is the inevitable result. That the destruction of the dignity of the individual human person is the direct result of the "liberation" of the individual human person from the organic Body that gave it life is surely the ultimate irony of history.

And next? The realization of the Luciferic dream of biological immortality, the Satanic dream of ultimate Liberty, the apotheosis of fallen humanity: the Wellsian utopia, Men As Gods. A future dominated by fallen Man, bereft of the Natural Law and armed godlike with the power of life and death, is truly a vision of Hell.

The cure for our ailing civilization will not be found in politics, machinery, social programming, or plumbing the depths of personal hedonism. Only a Christian reconquista can save the West; only a true renaissance of overt and militant Christianity can bring the near-dead husk of our civilization back to life.

To be a Christian, one must "die to self", be buried in the water, fire, and desire of baptism, and be reborn as a Child of God. To live, the man-centered, materialist West of the so-called Enlightenment only has to die -- and be reborn as Christendom.

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." [St. John 12:22]

Since this is not possible, the utopia, I mean, and no rational man imagines any such thing, why do you listen to it, and why do you repeat it?

The cure for our ailing civilization will not be found in politics, machinery, social programming, or plumbing the depths of personal hedonism. Only a ___ reconquista can save the West...

Your hallucination of "saving the West" is as unrealistic as any utopian dream, whether by a Christian conquest, or any other. There will always be good, decent, rational individuals who will know how to find freedom and to live responsibly, but, most of the world is stupid, hates freedom, and just wants someone or something to take care of them, and there are always plenty of thugs around to do just that.

It has never changed. It never will.

Most of the big problems of the world, are men's attempts to save the world, or save the West, or save civilization. If people would mind their own business and take care of themselves, there would be no problems. But, as I said, this will never happen, because someone always thinks they know how to save the world.

Hank