Boy is this one unpopular to-day, and I would argue it isn’t one to keep around these days but as seen in France, Germany, Scandinavia and other parts of Europe this isn’t quite so simple. It is a complicated ruling and one that atheists looooooove to use at every opportunity against the faithful. The reason they do this is that they are a religion, one with their own precepts, their own ceremonies and one with their own head. One must bear in mind that all religions have this ideal, but none more so than communism/socialism/atheism which at the end of the day follow the same ideals.
The ideal is that; one must worship the party (political in nature), one must worship the market (whether centralised or capitalist or otherwise) the truth is nothing is so important as the material world. Some are more tolerant than others, capitalists can often be better company than the rest but at times even they seem to act like a religious movement.
Nationalism is really in truth the only belief system consistent with religious ones. A person’s tribe is not a bad thing, so long as the tribe doesn’t push them towards acts of butchery. Reality is that certain variants of ‘heresy’ are less tolerant than others (such as those of communism, harder variants of islam and so on). Truth is that there is a harder side and a softer side to all religions. In WWII Buddhism took up a harder angle, when the Japanese butchered people in its name. Christians went after rather needlessly every group in the First up to the Fourth Crusades.
But now we must come to what it means to war with the infidel in to-day’s world. I do not think in truth physical violence is always the answer. It can be if it is in defence of one’s nation and people, and loved ones but the truth is that the true war now is a more spiritual and personal thing than any other. It is not by taking up a sword and marching down the street to slaughter someone that one will or should win this conflict as one of the Lord’s commandments was ‘Thou shalt not murder’ for a reason.
The more spiritual war is one in which the Christian faith must be defended, against those who might threaten her. And what is it that threatens her? Political parties, political leaders in particular those of a left-wing persuasion. These are the heretics in North-America at least and the rest of the Anglosphere who menace the faith more than any other. The war in this case is one of spirituality and culture and the Christian must continuously wage it using those means, not the sword.
The pen is after all mightier than the sword. We must not kill, and we must not allow ourselves to be drawn into violence. In some places it may well be excused, such as in France as they are in the grips of a civil-war, but their situation is a different one as they war with the evil EUSSR and her fanatics.
The cultural and spiritual conflict requires continuous prayer, constant reading of the Bible and also for Christians to return to the culture. The folly of the previous generation was to stupidly say ‘go hiking’ and to bury their heads in the sand, forgo the faith and surrender and now we the younger generation must fight for every inch and every table-scrap. We must also fight for our most basic of rights and for our countries in Europe. Nowhere is this more the case than in the greatest country on earth; France. War is there, and those of opposite faiths to France wish her to vanish, but she must not because she is the life-breath of chivalry, she is the birth-place of honour and she is the place where the most valiant of Christians were born; Charles Martel, Charlemagne, Philippe Auguste and Jehanne D’Arc to list a few.
Thus the war is to be fought ceaselessly and endlessly for what is right. It has been wrongly said that culture is downstream from politics. No, this is to point your own water-supply, but rather culture must be downstream from faith and God. We must return tot he well to purify it in order that the next generation shall have good stories that teach traditional lessons.
Once we do this, the supply will be restored and people will likely have better stories, better values and be of a wiser nature. Because stories are meant to be used to teach, to instruct and to bring people together. Stories and mythology are the building blocks of a society, they are her meats and potatoes, by pushing for better ones and telling ones that do not ‘subvert’ do not ‘deconstruct’ and that speak to the traditions of our individual nations we will have reclaimed these nations and they will be whole again.
“The fact is that a man who wants to act virtuous in every way necessarily comes to grief among so many who are not virtuous.”
― Machiaveli
Other than disagreeing that France is the greatest country on Earth (she is not, imo), I would agree with everything you’ve said. I believe that the men of the West are waking up to what they may irrevocably lose - one can only hope and pray it is not too late.