{"id":119755,"date":"2018-01-08T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T23:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=119755"},"modified":"2018-01-08T16:47:38","modified_gmt":"2018-01-09T00:47:38","slug":"blood-and-faith-christianity-in-american-white-nationalism-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=119755","title":{"rendered":"Blood and Faith: Christianity in American White Nationalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here are some highlights from this new book<\/a>:<\/p>\n

* We should then understand that Oliver\u2019s critique of what he described as \u201cquaint\u201d patriotism and American conservatism was essentially pragmatic in relation to the survival of the white race. He was clearly provoked to attack National Review and the JBS because of the abject presence of persons whom he perceived to be dangerous racial enemies. But we should appreciate that he was more troubled by the perceived impotence and inadequacy of conservative ideology and praxis, of which, for him, the presence of Jews was a sign and symptom. As this rationalistic pragmatism shaped his critic of conservatism, it also shaped his assessment of Christianity. In a review of William Gayley Simpson\u2019s book Which Way Western Man (1978) in Liberty Bell in 1980, Oliver went so far as to describe Christianity as nothing more than a collection \u201cJewish superstitions\u201d that have \u201cparalyzed\u201d the \u201cvital instincts\u201d and \u201crationality\u201d of the white race. <\/p>\n

According to Oliver, conservative politics, inhibits the expression of necessary attributes that would ensure the future survival of the white race. But he did not always feel this way. Like his critique of conservative politics, Oliver\u2019s perspective on Christianity changed from his days with National Review, when he saw it as fundamental to the Western tradition. <\/p>\n

* Christianity, far from simply supplying the West with its historical identity or culture as it was molded into an expression of the Aryan mind, had been from the beginning the most significant factor inhibiting the might of the West and the full development of Western man\u2019s racial protectionist instincts. <\/p>\n

* Europe had become \u201ca society whose inward convictions have been at hopeless variance with the outward professions the events of history have forced it to make.\u201d <\/p>\n

* The Bible was indeed not a benefit for Europeans. It was, he argues, \u201can incubus of which Western Christianity could not rid itself\u201d and had produce irreparable harm to Europeans\u2019 \u201cracial psyche.\u201d \u201cEven at its best \u2026 Christianity [had] powerfully and, indeed, immeasurably distorted [Western] culture.\u201d53 Here, even historical Christianity in the West was nothing but an infection that inhibited the full flowering of the West\u2019s potential and the full racial awareness of Europeans. <\/p>\n

* Christianity, even anti-Semitic Christianity, is pernicious in its Jewish origins, has distorted the racial identity of Europeans, and has allowed Jews to masquerade as a different religion rather than to reveal themselves as an alien race. <\/p>\n

* Reagan, though quickly becoming the hero of Christian conservatives in the newly formed Religious Right, was for Oliver just another example of the failure of the increasingly pro-Israel, anti-Communist conservative movement to prioritize the survival of the white race. <\/p>\n

* He argues that biological racial destruction through biological \u201cmiscegenation\u201d has its roots in the initial influence of alien ideologies. For him, such histories as that of Rome and India offer for him insight into the \u201cpuzzling episodes\u201d in the history of the white race that precipitated destruction through ideological and then finally biological miscegenation.63 His clear point is that Christianity, an alien religious ideology, was the initiating force behind interracial sexual permissiveness that ultimately spelled and spells the end of Aryan dominance in any particular area. Ideological miscegenation always results, so the formula goes, in racial suicide through sexual miscegenation. <\/p>\n

Oliver goes further in his book to describe religion as a whole and principally Christianity as a \u201ccorrosive acid\u201d that has dissolved \u201call the natural bonds of society, kinship, family, social status, race, and even government, and replaces them with the fractious and unnatural bond of unanimity and superstition.\u201d He argues that Christianity in particular compels its adherents to \u201creplace race with a church\u201d and has thereby become a \u201cdeadly racial poison\u201d that has brought the white race \u201cto the point of death.\u201d And because all such vestiges of religious mysticism, especially Christianity, are so dangerous to the future of the white race, they must be abandoned if the race is to survive. Any such trappings are simply incompatible with civilization. <\/p>\n

* I argue that Pierce\u2019s rejection of Christianity emerged from the racial embodiment of Cosmotheist principles that rests on the assertion of a transcendent metaphysical evolutionary racial struggle and spiritual progress that ultimately defines all life in terms of hierarchy.<\/p>\n

* Pierce and [George Lincoln] Rockwell shared a penchant for conspiratorial anti-Semitism, a Manichean and militaristic view of the world as the scene of racial conflict, and a myopic focus on white racial survival as the only goal worth fighting for. <\/p>\n

* Pierce affirmed that all people are part of a metaphysical and material whole, that each particular being plays a role in the Creator\u2019s purpose, and that all things share in a divine nature. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here are some highlights from this new book: * We should then understand that Oliver\u2019s critique of what he described as \u201cquaint\u201d patriotism and American conservatism was essentially pragmatic in relation to the survival of the white race. He was … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,605,35,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-anti-semitism","category-christianity","category-jews"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=119755"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":119772,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119755\/revisions\/119772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=119755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=119755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=119755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}