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A translation of the suicide note of Dominique Venner, a French intellectual who opposed liberalism, can be found at Occam’s Razor. Venner shot himself before the altar of Notre Dame yesterday. At Chronicles, Srdja Trifkovic gives an account of the French man’s life in Dominique Venner, a French Samurai. 

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Buck writes:

What do we have here? The Bill Ayers of the French right?

We’re not going to get this kind of gesture from the left or from modern liberals who are riding the wave. Notwithstanding that their own nihilism is a living death, they want every last drop of pleasure from any still functioning senses. There’s an immeasurable amount of feeling and tasting and pleasure out there in the ever expanding universe of desire. Why would anyone want to kill himself?

Jewel A. writes:

His anguish over the fate of his country and his culture reminds me of Thomas James Balls’ death.

Mary writes:

From the comments at the Chronicles site: “…this disgraceful act of paganizing despair…”

This poor soul has done a terrible thing. Life is not ours to take, even our own.

More from the Chronicles site: “…Myself, I feel at most betrayal that someone so purportedly dedicated to the cause of the French nation would commit such a dastardly un-Catholic and un-French deed deliberately, in public, in a Catholic cathedral and in the name of France….”

When will the French learn? As a nation they must return to the Faith, then France might have a chance of being saved. Only then they will repopulate their cities and villages and receive the supernatural help they so desperately need.

Laura writes:

Pagan civilization was Venner’s ideal. At Galliawatch, Tiberge writes of Venner’s suicide note:

The … reasoning reminds me of The Stranger by Albert Camus where Meursault commits a murder as an act of will, without any real purpose or motive. Venner says he has a purpose, but if he is concerned about his country, it is hard to see how his voluntary death, his absence, can help those who remain. A Christian must yield to the will of God, the Creator and Lawgiver; a non-believer turns the human will into a god, or yields to abominable Fate.

So, if he really wanted to “revolt against fate” he would have chosen to see this crisis through, by contributing his patriotism and his knowledge to the cause of France.

Tiberge adds:

Note: He is not a Christian believer, but he speaks of “forgiveness” and “transcendence”. Of course, it is true, that such concepts preceded Christianity. Like Camus, he seems to be unable to make a final leap, not only of faith, but of reason. Reason that expands the consciousness beyond the material earth and comes to the realization that the innate laws of nature he wants to preserve were not put there by Man, only uncovered by him.

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