MANY nationalists of the “Alt-Right” romanticize paganism and condemn Christianity as effeminate. Pointing to the anti-Catholic “Pope” Francis, they rightly condemn his support for open borders, but find in it a ready excuse to ignore the Church. They seem willfully ignorant of its historic support for nationalism, the fact that it was Christian knights who once defended Europe’s borders, the warnings by pre-Vatican II popes of the heresies of modernists and the failure of Francis to accept Catholicism! Some of these neopagans actually believe Europe will be restored by a return to Norse gods — or lots of manly passion. Many, I am convinced, want to be libertines and nationalists or want to coast on waves of unrestrained nationalist feeling without the hard work of self examination.

Some are Darwinists who lack wisdom and common sense. Alt-Right pagans will never possess the moral fiber to restore Europe. Heck, they can’t even produce big families.

A blog called Catholic Kulchur responds to this trend in “An Open Letter to the Alt-Right from a Traditionalist Catholic.” Though the author accepts the validity of Francis as pope, a view which somewhat undermines his arguments, he makes an important argument with eloquence:

The Alt Right is rightly disgusted with the buddy Jesus, high-fiving Evangelical Catholicism, but they are wrong to think this sentimental and effeminate Christianity is the Christianity that was given to the Irish by St. Patrick or to the Slavic people by Saints Cyril and Methodius. The Christianity of the Beowulf poet or that of St. Thomas Aquinas, himself a member of an aristocratic Norman-Italian family, is not the Christianity of Pope Francis or Rick Warren.  For two millennia, the borders of Europe were defended by Christian knights who shed their blood fighting waves of migrants seeking to chain our ancestors under the yoke of Islam.

Catholics were reactionary before being reactionary was Tweetable. Catholics do not so much reject the modern world as what the modern world is, is a rejection of Catholicism. European people were disgusted and bored in the 19^th century reading the poems of Baudelaire, Poe, and Rimbaud when the majority of our countries were 99% white precisely because we had abandoned Christ for Odin, Zeus, and worship of the fatherland. Indo-European people began to destroy themselves when they rejected their baptism and turned their back on God. Today, the reason why countries like Hungary and Poland resist Islamization and globalization [is] because they have kept their faith; they want to live, and they want to live for Christ.

The future of our civilization can only be built on the one firm foundation of Jesus Christ, Our Lord. The driving force of true arête or excellence for European people has been, since the time of Constantine, what St. Ignatius of Loyola called ad majorem dei gloriam, all for greater glory of God. It was the love of Christ that inspired Columbus to sail across the Atlantic and Cortez to destroy the pagan Aztec empire. It was the greater glory of God that impelled the construction of the great gothic Cathedrals of Europe, modeled on the mead halls and dragon ships of Vikings who skimmed the seas. Our drive for excellence as a people cannot simply be the desire for honor or the glory of the family or the wider fellowship or comitatus of white folks, for all of this is merely morbid materialism without the hope of salvation or eternal life.

We must have a moral awakening and call to conversion to the one true faith of our fathers. We cannot ask God to defend us from an army of faux refugees seeking to trample underfoot the family of Western nations if the majority of Westerners, are as, Katy Perry and AC/DC sang at the 2015 Grammy awards, “on a highway to hell.” If we kill our own offspring for eugenic or other reasons—as has been suggested in the pages of the scholarly Alt Right Radix journal—we are still on the road to self-extermination, for, just as it is hard just to hate one group of people without ending up hating everyone, once the killing starts, it is hard to stop….

… [R]ealize that the planned physical extermination of our people and culture is only a side effect of a diabolical scheme to exterminate the remnants of Christian culture that still haunt the ruins of Western civilization. The foundation of our civilization is not our DNA or skin color and to grasp for salvation in the tombs of our ancestors is to choose an empty and boring mortality. It is time for the Alt Right to “repent and believe in the Gospel” and make Christendom great again.

— Comments —

Bob writes:

One wonders why alt-right pagans do not embrace Hinduism, which is the only surviving, living branch of Indo-Aryan paganism.

Laura writes:

Because it’s not white.

Bob responds:

No doubt a true explanation.

Genetically, Hindus are Indo-Europeans (Aryans) and part of the great Aryan diaspora that overran Europe, Anatolia, Persia, Central Asia and Northern India. But, true enough, they are brown, and Hinduism is truly exotic to Protestants (as is Catholicism and Orthodoxy).

But still, Hinduism must be somewhat similar to what our ancient ancestors did before the coming of Christianity.

Laura writes:

A return to ancestral worship is the goal.

But our ancestors rejected it for a reason.

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