Judaeo-Christianity

The conception of the world distinct to Judaism and Christianity, to which the latter confers its major forms, first as religion, then, with the advent of modernity, as ideology.

The implantation of Judaeo-Christianity constituted an alien addition to pantheistic and polytheistic Europe. Hence, her cultural and mental schizophrenia: on the one hand, an egalitarian and universalistic Christian consciousness; on the other, a pagan, particularistic consciousness. The scientific mentality developed in opposition to Judaeo-Christianity, in accord with her pagan spirit, but her political ideologies (egalitarian, cosmopolitan, progressive, and individualistic) have taken a Judaeo-Christian turn. The Marxist postulates animating the Left (even after the fall of Communism) are, for example, a direct secularisation of Judaeo-Christian doctrines of salvation. Similarly, American hegemony and its ‘humanitarian’ interventionism, like its market model of society, express a Protestant version of Judaeo-Christianity. It’s important, though, to note that Judaism (which escaped Christianity’s Pauline schism) has never been universalistic and cosmopolitan in this sense, given the communitarian imperatives of the ‘chosen people’ to privilege other spiritual considerations.

Traditional Catholicism, elaborated in the course of the Middle Ages, was marked by a certain ‘paganisation of Judaeo-Christianity’; in this sense it’s part of the integral European tradition, though it holds no monopoly over it.

In the arts, culture, philosophy, mentality, and popular rites, paganism is present and still vital. Similarly, there’s no comparison between the Christianisation of Europe and Islam’s present installation. Christianity was developed and elaborated by Europeans themselves — if on the basis of certain alien sources — while Islam — which ought to be seen as a greater danger to Europe than Americanism — has simply been imposed, without any acclimation, as a conception of the world and society radically alien to the European mentality and tradition.

The Christianity of Vatican II, in returning to the Biblical sources of primitive Christianity, constituted a compromising rupture with the pagan-Christian sense of the sacred. It inaugurated a profanation of Christian religious doctrines, a politicisation of its spiritual principles, and, similarly, the collapse of Catholic religious practices. Having abandoned its sacred language, Latin (while Islam retains its classical Arabic), and having succumbed to modernity’s sirens, the neo-Christianity born at Vatican II (this palaeo-Christianity which returns to the ultra-egalitarian sources of primitive Christianity) has thrown off the sacred sense rooted in the ancestral tradition (however subterranean and unconscious), and fallen into a pure and simple atheism, as evident in the works of contemporary Catholic theologians.

Contemporary churches resemble post offices, having retained nothing of the cathedral. The discourse of its official prelates is virtually identical to that of a trade union official. In dismissing pagan sacrality, the cult of the saints, and the Virgin Mary, the official neo-Christianity of Vatican II has destroyed the Church as a religious institution and become an ideology objectively opposed to the destiny of European peoples. It’s tempting to compare it to primitive Christianity, which contested Roman patriotism before the aggiornamento of the Fourth century.

Hence: the Church’s ‘ecumenical’ tolerance of the Islamic offensive, the systematic alignment of its prelates along neo-Trotskyist lines, its encouragement of ethnomasochism, its almost perfect accord with the politically correct intellectual-media classes — all centred on the hypocritical religion of human rights. In the East, fortunately, the Orthodox Church has better resisted these siren songs. The official Catholic Church is in the process of committing suicide; but in dying it hasn’t killed off the real soul of Europe’s peoples.

Why? Because — and this can be seen in the massive defections it’s wrought — the post-conciliar Church has cut itself off from the sacrality distinct to Europeans. Its ‘marketing’ ploys (like World Youth Day) change nothing. The Church has condemned itself to being just another sect swept along by the cold wind that comes with Islam.

For the resistance: what is to be done? A historic compromise is evidently possible between authentic pagans and those Catholics and Orthodox Christians who continue to practice traditional European Christianity. But no resistance to the present offensive can be waged without appealing to the ‘pagan soul’, associated with the spirit of the two invincible pagan divinities, Apollo and Dionysus. Pierre Vial writes in Une Terre, un Peuple, ‘During two thousand years of Christianity, Europeans somehow or other never forgot these ancient divinities: they are part of our heritage and are to be assumed, like other of its parts, whether they please others or not’.

Said differently: an authentic pagan will always oppose a church transformed into a mosque, a bell tower into a minaret — even if an official prelate of the Church sanctions such a transformation . . .

(see paganism)