{"id":193582,"date":"2019-08-21T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193582"},"modified":"2019-08-25T08:08:50","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T08:08:50","slug":"christian-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=193582","title":{"rendered":"Christian to Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Linh Dinh \u2013 The Unz Review Aug 20, 2019<\/strong><\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_193583\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Philadelphia-2012xx.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-193583\" class=\"wp-image-193583\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Philadelphia-2012xx-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Philadelphia-2012xx.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Philadelphia-2012xx-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Philadelphia-2012xx-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-193583\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Philadelphia 2012. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<h5>With its eschatological Bible, the West is constantly haunted by its death and hypothetical rebirth. Its apocalyptic imagination is unmatched.<\/h5>\n<h5>Christianity promises a frightful ending, as in, \u201cThen the angel took the censer, filled it with fire from the altar, and hurled it on the earth; and there came peals of thunder, rumblings, flashes of lightning and an earthquake. (Revelation 8:5) The first angel sounded his trumpet, and there came hail and fire mixed with blood, and it was hurled down on the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, a third of the trees were burned up, and all the green grass was burned up. (Revelation 8:7) The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain, all ablaze, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood, (Revelation 8:8) a third of the living creatures in the sea died, and a third of the ships were destroyed. (Revelation 8:9)\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Downright evil. In Cormac McCarthy\u2019s <em>The Road<\/em>, you certainly get a variation of all this, though its first impact is only tersely described, \u201cThe clocks stopped at 1:17. A long shear of light and then a series of low concussions [\u2026] He went into the bathroom and threw the lightswitch but the power was already gone. A dull rose glow in the windowglass. He dropped to one knee and raised the lever to stop the tub and then turned on both taps as far as they would go.\u201d With electricity and running water gone, everyone\u2019s long slide from modernity begins.<\/h5>\n<h5>That \u201clong shear of light\u201d was either a meteor or, more likely, an atomic bomb. Desperately wandering through a world of ash, soot, slush and blocked sunlight, a father and son would discover the cataclysm\u2019s ghastly results, such as, \u201cThe long concrete sweeps of the interstate exchanges like the ruins of a vast funhouse against the distant murk [\u2026] The mummied dead everywhere. The flesh cloven along the bones, the ligaments dried to tug and taut as wires. Shriveled and drawn like latterday bogfolk, their faces of boiled sheeting, the yellowed palings of their teeth. They were discalced to a man like pilgrims of some common order for all their shoes were long since stolen.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Father and son are trapped in a man-eat-man world, and not just metaphorically, as we are. Essentially Christian, they reassure themselves they\u2019re still the \u201cgood guys,\u201d for they won\u2019t rob, murder or eat other people, and that they\u2019re \u201ccarrying the fire.\u201d When the father finally dies, the son is adopted into a Christian band, but this soothing ending runs counter to the Hobbesian tenor of all the other pages. The boy should starve to death, if not be butchered and eaten by feral humans.<\/h5>\n<h5>This salvaged faith in Christ and man is not as convincing as the father\u2019s epiphany, halfway through, \u201cHe walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Among the broken people they meet on the road is a \u201cspider thin,\u201d bent, stinking and starving old man, Eli. An inverted Elijah, he always \u201cknew this was coming,\u201d but there\u2019s no use getting ready for it. In fact, it would be best if there\u2019s no one left. \u201cWe\u2019ll all be better off. We\u2019ll all breathe easier.\u201d And, \u201cWhen we\u2019re all gone at last then there\u2019ll be nobody here but death and his days will be numbered too.\u201d Since humans are death\u2019s most ardent servants, he\u2019ll die too when we\u2019re done. There will be no more unnatural deaths.<\/h5>\n<h5>As for God, there\u2019s none, according to Eli, \u201cThere is no God and we are his prophets.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>The son urges his father to feed Eli, so he does, but after the old man has eaten, and been given canned fruits and vegetables from his benefactors\u2019 tiny stash, he refuses to thank the boy. Eli even states, \u201cI wouldnt have given him mine.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"irc_mi alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/media.treehugger.com\/assets\/images\/2011\/10\/2008-03-31_113152-Treehugger-world-made-by-hand.jpg.696x0_q70_crop-smart.jpg\" alt=\"Image result for a world made by hand\" width=\"199\" height=\"305\" \/> With The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency, James Howard Kunstler is a leading thinker about our civilization\u2019s unwinding, but in <em>A World Made by Hand<\/em>, he imagines a relatively civil postscript, at least for one community. After Washington and Los Angeles have been blown up, and much of the country overrun by violent thugs and wracked by race troubles, people in an upstate New York town manage to work together to restore order and sustain a basic economy. Though the protagonist is a Jew, like Kunstler himself, Christianity also features prominently, as a social glue and foundation for this distressed population. Two of the main characters are preachers, with one rather obnoxious but ultimately a good guy.<\/h5>\n<h5>Neither\u2019s Christianity is very orthodox, to say the least, with the first admitting by the novel\u2019s end he has \u201clost God.\u201d Still, he would continue his clerical duties to cultivate the divine in man, the greatest of heresies.<\/h5>\n<h5>The second preacher\u2019s compound has a female dormitory, with a \u201croyal chamber\u201d at its center to house an extremely fat and pale woman with a tiny head. Worse, she emits a \u201csweet funky odor\u201d that pervades all surrounding cell-like rooms, each with a single bed. There are strong hints it\u2019s a procreation area.<\/h5>\n<h5>The West\u2019s preoccupation with its demise is also stoked by its small historical size and relatively tiny population. Mongols, Turks, Moors, Gypsies, Sub-Saharan blacks, Chinese, Arabs, South Asians, Southeast Asians and Latinos take turns encroaching, or they all swarm in.<\/h5>\n<h5>In <em>Camp of the Saints<\/em>, a 1973 novel described by its author, Jean Raspail, as depicting \u201cthe peaceful invasion of France, and then of the West, by a third world burgeoned into multitudes.\u201d Quite peaceful indeed. From page 102, \u201cEverywhere, nothing but the howling, swarming horde. Thousands of human ants, streaming down the zigzag path from Fontgembar, in an endless column, bristling with fists, and sticks, and scythes, and guns\u2026\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>While the West only invades with armadas, columns of troops, planes in formations and bank liens, the brown, black and yellow hordes just swarm in, as busboys, coolies, wet nurses and refugees, often from wars instigated by Western countries. It\u2019s definitely not fair!<\/h5>\n<h5>Of Raspail\u2019s book, Kirkus Review opined in 1975, \u201cThe publishers are presenting <em>The Camp of the Saints<\/em> as a major event, and it probably is, in much the same sense that Mein Kampf was a major event. It takes important and chilling facts that very few people are willing to face, and digs into them like a hyena into carrion. Raspail\u2019s basic premise is irrefutable: in a few decades the non-white population of the world will outnumber the white by more than seven to one, essential resources will be scarcer than ever, and a lot of familiar issues will suddenly be perceived in racial terms [\u2026] Lurid manipulation of sexual overtones, sneers at the knee-jerk liberalism of the mass media, fulminations against the U.N. and progressive Catholicism\u2014Raspail covers all bases of hatred. <em>The Camp of the Saints<\/em> can be said to make you think. So did the My Lai massacre.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>Though linking this novel \u201cof hatred\u201d with Mein Kampf and My Lai, Kirkus Review conceded that its \u201cbasic premise is irrefutable.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/36732945402_6e9205f757_b.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-193585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/36732945402_6e9205f757_b-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/36732945402_6e9205f757_b.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/36732945402_6e9205f757_b-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/36732945402_6e9205f757_b-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/><\/a>In the West, the concept of race replacement is routinely mocked as racist paranoia, but entire neighborhoods or even cities have been racially replaced, such as many American ones after the race riots of the 60\u2019s, East London, much of <span style=\"color: #ffff00;\"><a style=\"color: #ffff00;\" href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/2017\/08\/two-muslim-women-on-rue-dx27aix.html\">Marseille<\/a><\/span> and Palestine. To shift perspective, I can even cite my Vietnamese town, <a href=\"https:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Ea%20Kly\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Ea Kly<\/span><\/a>, which was entirely populated by ethnic Rade just over three decades ago. Now, they make up less than half of our 20,000 population.<\/h5>\n<h5>In 1995, Raspail reflected on his novel, \u201cIt will probably not happen as I have described it, for <em>The Camp of the Saints<\/em> is only a parable, but in the end the result will not be any different, though perhaps in a form more diffused and therefore seemingly more tolerable.\u201d He spoke of a \u201cglobal Spartacus,\u201d a revolt of the destitute against the fat cats, which has always been the aim of the Western left, and that\u2019s why those clamoring for Socialism are also demanding open borders. It\u2019s not suicide, bro, but equality, at last, and universal brotherhood.<\/h5>\n<h5>Raspail warned, \u201cBut the petty bourgeois, deaf and blind, continues to play the buffoon without knowing it. Still miraculously comfortable in his lush fields, he cries out while glancing toward his nearest neighbor: \u2018Make the rich pay!\u2019 Does he know, does he finally know that it is he who is the rich one, and that the cry for justice, that cry of all revolutions, projected by millions of voices, is rising soon against him, and only against him. That\u2019s the whole theme of Camp of the Saints.\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>In this novel, Christianity doesn\u2019t provide solace or guidance, but is a roadmap to ruin. Preaching universal brotherhood, it insists there should be no barrier between nations, a belief not shared by yellows, browns or blacks, when it comes to their own nations.<\/h5>\n<h5>Since every ethnic group has its own way of organizing society, even two hundred plus countries aren\u2019t enough to accomondate them all, so any globalist system or creed is always a form of mass violence.<\/h5>\n<h5>Convinced that they\u2019re always the good guys and carriers of light, white Christians have been invading, inviting and remaking the world for several centuries, so it\u2019d be fitting if they themselves are deformed by this Christianity. To show his contempt, Raspail has eleven elderly Christian monks trampled to death by an Indian mob they\u2019re trying to welcome.<\/h5>\n<h5><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TheCampOfTheSaints.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-180527\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TheCampOfTheSaints.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"261\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TheCampOfTheSaints.jpg 261w, https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/TheCampOfTheSaints-209x300.jpg 209w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 261px) 100vw, 261px\" \/><\/a>Of the three books discussed, <em>The Camp of the Saints<\/em> is the most unhinged, with many racist passages that distract from its insights. There\u2019s no need to have a Hindu \u201cturd eater,\u201d for example, or conjure up a bizarre sex orgy on a refugee boat, \u201cPerhaps it was the heat, the inertia. Perhaps the sun, pouring druglike against the skin and into the brain, or that tide of mystical fervor it swam in. Most of all, the natural drive of a people who never found sex to be sin. And little by little, the mass began to move. Imperceptibly at first. Then more and more, in every direction\u2026 Soon the decks came to look like those temple friezes so highly prized by tourists, prurient or prudish, but rarely touched by the beauty of the sculpture and the grace of the pose. And everywhere, a mass of hands and mouths, of phalluses and rumps. White tunics billowing over fondling, exploring fingers. Young boys, passed from hand to hand. Young girls, barely ripe, lying together cheek to thigh, asleep in a languid maze of arms, and legs, and flowing hair, waking to the silent play of eager lips. Male organs mouthed to the hilt, tongues pointing their way into scabbards of flesh, men shooting their sperm into women\u2019s nimble hands. Everywhere, rivers of sperm. Streaming over bodies, oozing between breasts, and buttocks, and thighs, and lips, and fingers. Bodies together, not in twos, but in threes, in fours, whole families of flesh gripped in gentle frenzies and subtle raptures. Men with women, men with men, women with women, men with children, children with each other, their slender fingers playing the eternal games of carnal pleasure. Fleshless old men reliving their long-lost vigor. And on every face, eyes closed, the same smile, calm and blissful. No sounds but the ocean breezes, the panting breaths, and, from time to time, a cry, a groan, a call to waken other sprawling figures and bring them into the communion of the flesh\u2026\u201d<\/h5>\n<h5>From Rabelais onward, there\u2019s a grotesque strain in French literature, but this is ridiculous, man. One can defend one\u2019s heritage and be a nativist without claiming that any other group are more or less animals.<\/h5>\n<h5>Should <em>The Camp of the Saints<\/em> prove more prescient than <em>The Road<\/em> and <em>A World Made by Hand<\/em>, eventually we\u2019ll see shiploads of white refugees, fleeing formerly white countries that have lost their mind, soul and spine. By refusing to define and compose yourself, you\u2019re already nothing.<\/h5>\n<h5><strong><em>Linh Dinh\u2019s<\/em><\/strong><em> latest book is <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sevenstories.com\/books\/3425-postcards-from-the-end-of-america\"><em><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">Postcards from the End of America<\/span><\/em><\/a><em>. He maintains a regularly updated photo <a href=\"http:\/\/linhdinhphotos.blogspot.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #ffff00;\">blog<\/span><\/a>.<\/em><\/h5>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unz.com\/ldinh\/christian-to-death\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the West, the concept of race replacement is routinely mocked as racist paranoia, but entire neighborhoods or even cities have been racially replaced. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Commentary"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193582"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193589,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193582\/revisions\/193589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}