FROM Is Christianity Bankrupt? by Adrien Arcand (1954):
… Take the word “democracy”, which in human society (on both sides of the Iron Curtain) has become the supreme imperative and has replaced all divine authority with one and the same propaganda. What does this global password, this all-powerful verbum, mean? Anything, as long as it is against the True, the Just and the Beautiful.
In Russia, “democracy” justifies the slavery of twenty million men in concentration camps, the destruction of religion, the family, the right to property. In Palestine, it beatifies the most virulent and savage racism. In France, it glorifies disunity and instability. In England, it confirms the abandonment and abdication of an historical role called “vital, capital” not a decade ago. In China, it sanctions usurpation, tyranny and despotism. In America, it canonizes plutocracy, socialism, miscegenation, degradation of morals. When a monarch eats a hot dog at the White House, that is proclaimed “democratic.” For a prince or a princess to ridicule the sacred laws of marriage and identify with the most scandalous characters of an era is to be “a good democrat.” The anti-Christian propaganda which sets the tone for modern life, on the note of “democracy”, would believe itself guilty of anti-democracy if it tried to raise the moral or intellectual level of peoples. Its task is to “clean up the brains” of any culture, on both sides of the Iron Curtain. On our continent, the mass production of robots in the name of jazz and sports vertigo, the ennobling of gorilla attitudes and the propaganda of vulgarity, are fashionable detergents, along with the worship of incantational noise and ever-more-stupid stream-of-consciousness novels.
In the short moments of respite allowed to it, the multitude, because nothing can kill its spirit, feels this profanation of its dignity and realizes the omnipresence of the lie. It despises the authorities who allow such a state of affairs and secretly wishes for their overthrow.
