My opinion is that the Western world is foundationally based upon and inseparable from Christianity. The secular dream that people who reject traditional religion will find freedom in atheism, humanism, and scientism is dead or at least terminally dying. The results of such attempts to separate our culture from Christianity have devolved into "Wokeism", a psuedo-religion rip-off of Christianity, and the "Climate Cult", a neopaganism for historical illiterates. Modern society suffers a severe crisis of meaninglessness and anomia that is ushering in a civilization-wide cry for the return of the Strong Gods.
My preference would be an eventual revival of Christianity, putting our culture back in touch with the roots that grew and sustained it, because both of the current alternatives are essentially suicidal. There are a few hints this is already beginning, with progressive churches shrinking in membership as more Orthodox churches grow, but it's too soon to tell if that signals a broader resumption of religion's central significance in our culture or merely a redistribution of those citizens already inclined toward religion. We live in a time where the Left is slowly being forced to reckon with the fact that control of the narrative did not equal control of actual reality and the Right has been slowly forced to grapple with the fact that it cannot afford to allow the Left absolute control of the narrative... Interesting Times indeed.
Thanks for reading and great comment, I agree with much of what you said. You make a good point about Orthodox churches growing/progressive ones shrinking - this to me may be essential to Christianity gaining influence once more. Especially for young males, who want to feel inspired at the possibility both of raising a family, but implicated in that, experiencing glory with personal success - though this 'personal success' need not be material. The concern, I would say, for Christianity - and therefore these young male converts - is the lack of young Western women to pair up with. These young women have been trapped and indoctrinated with feminism, and very difficult to date in their current state (I can attest!) Not only are they suspicious of men generally, but they have plenty of emotional issues that are a nightmare to deal with. More and more young men on the right are turning to other, more traditional cultures to find more feminine women, including myself and several other friends of mine who are younger. In several of these cases though, the women are still Christian, so this is what helps bind them together. But yes, overall - very interesting times.
My opinion is that the Western world is foundationally based upon and inseparable from Christianity. The secular dream that people who reject traditional religion will find freedom in atheism, humanism, and scientism is dead or at least terminally dying. The results of such attempts to separate our culture from Christianity have devolved into "Wokeism", a psuedo-religion rip-off of Christianity, and the "Climate Cult", a neopaganism for historical illiterates. Modern society suffers a severe crisis of meaninglessness and anomia that is ushering in a civilization-wide cry for the return of the Strong Gods.
My preference would be an eventual revival of Christianity, putting our culture back in touch with the roots that grew and sustained it, because both of the current alternatives are essentially suicidal. There are a few hints this is already beginning, with progressive churches shrinking in membership as more Orthodox churches grow, but it's too soon to tell if that signals a broader resumption of religion's central significance in our culture or merely a redistribution of those citizens already inclined toward religion. We live in a time where the Left is slowly being forced to reckon with the fact that control of the narrative did not equal control of actual reality and the Right has been slowly forced to grapple with the fact that it cannot afford to allow the Left absolute control of the narrative... Interesting Times indeed.
Thanks for reading and great comment, I agree with much of what you said. You make a good point about Orthodox churches growing/progressive ones shrinking - this to me may be essential to Christianity gaining influence once more. Especially for young males, who want to feel inspired at the possibility both of raising a family, but implicated in that, experiencing glory with personal success - though this 'personal success' need not be material. The concern, I would say, for Christianity - and therefore these young male converts - is the lack of young Western women to pair up with. These young women have been trapped and indoctrinated with feminism, and very difficult to date in their current state (I can attest!) Not only are they suspicious of men generally, but they have plenty of emotional issues that are a nightmare to deal with. More and more young men on the right are turning to other, more traditional cultures to find more feminine women, including myself and several other friends of mine who are younger. In several of these cases though, the women are still Christian, so this is what helps bind them together. But yes, overall - very interesting times.