What follows is a reprint of an article I originally published eleven years ago, following the death of French writer Dominque Venner, who shot himself in the cathedral of Notre Dame on May 21, 2013. Its republication is inspired by a surprisingly sympathetic article about Venner recently published at the “mainstream” conservative Catholic journal
Judaism and Christianity did not allow religious freedom when Jews and Muslim took their religion seriously. Quran.com/2/256 supports the First Amendment.
Does any person claiming to be Christian care that Christians are supposed to obey the Ten Commandments and that God’s Commandments forbid idolatry and blasphemy? Have these people claiming to be Christian not noticed that worshipping an executed blasphemer is idolatry?
Why has no Western historian noticed that liberalism was an attempt to replace Christianity or that socialism and nationalism were attempts to replace liberalism?
Why has no Western historian noticed that the American, French and Russian Revolutions were rejections of monarchy and the religion that supported the divine right of kings?
Judaism and Christianity did not allow religious freedom when Jews and Muslim took their religion seriously. Quran.com/2/256 supports the First Amendment.
Will America become even more of a banana republic when it passes the Christian Amendment the Samoans did?
Is Matthew Rose a Christian nationalist proposing the abolition of the First Amendment?
Does Matthew Rose propose the abolition of the First Amendment if he intends to pass a Christian Amendment to make America a Christian Republic?
Does Matthew Rose really think the corpse of Christianity can be resurrected without making blasphemy a capital crime again?
Shouldn’t Matthew Rose have asked if Christianity has failed and if so why?
Was Matthew Rose just saying “We must return to Christianity because an atheist committed suicide in church?”
Isn’t that illogical?
Would returning to Christianity be analogous to consuming food unfit for human consumption which has already made you gravely ill?
Do Westerners suffer from the unacknowledged trauma of being forced to believe in the absurdity of the Trinity?
Isn’t Christianity the absurd religion of antisemites who worship a Jew?
Isn’t it the case that atheists and Christians don’t take idolatry seriously because they don’t believe God exists to punish them for idolatry?
Isn’t it the case that atheists and Christians don’t take idolatry seriously?
Does any person claiming to be Christian care that Christians are supposed to obey the Ten Commandments and that God’s Commandments forbid idolatry and blasphemy? Have these people claiming to be Christian not noticed that worshipping an executed blasphemer is idolatry?
Why has no Western historian noticed that liberalism was an attempt to replace Christianity or that socialism and nationalism were attempts to replace liberalism?
Why has no Western historian noticed that the American, French and Russian Revolutions were rejections of monarchy and the religion that supported the divine right of kings?
Why has no Western historian noticed that Christendom ended in 1918?