Laurent Guyénot recently wrote in The Unz Review: “The Christian question is the flip side of the Jewish question, which has now become the Israeli question. It is the question of Christendom’s responsibility—and complicity—in Jewish Power”. Unfortunately, Guyénot messed up shortly afterward with these words: “Let’s not confuse Christ and Christianity. The life and philosophy of Jesus are deeply inspiring; I’m not questioning that”.
Well, at least his first sentence quoted above from his article, which at the time of writing has received 174 responses, is a step in the right direction.
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Robert Morgan commented:
See all of his recent comments here.
“I’m not questioning that” – that’s the problem for me: what these idiots will and will not question as standard (which doesn’t seem to be very much in the first instance). As Morgan correctly notes, it’s hard to directly refer to the life of someone who never existed outside of revolutionary myth. I would have loved Laurent Guyénot to elaborate there as to just what in his Jesus’ philosophy that he found so universally inspiring.
Definitely I agree with what Robert Morgan suggests, it’s just that ‘Jesus Derangement Syndrome’, which I assume is somehow a play on the neologism ‘diagnosis’ Trump Derangement Syndrome, doesn’t sit well with me as the original phrase is meant to disparage those who are anti-Trump, and I wonder if it’s the same here for their Jesus figure, (much as Morgan is appropriating it for his own uses).
I saw his response to Je Suis Omar Mateen also, who said, tellingly:
There’s no one more dangerous and deluded in this case than the person who falls back on what, with a typical lack of discernment, is claimed as ‘obvious’.
It’s good there’s so many comments on there, even if there are rather a lot of defensive conservatives. I saw the article yesterday. Many of the commenters seem to be splitting hair over ‘real’ Christianity, or coming out with that tired, fallacious ‘look how much Christianity forged and sustained our conquering civilization’ argument, which I think Adunai disproved recently in pleasant fashion by remarking on multiple historical examples of wide-spread miscegenation under Christianity and the enforced emancipation of blacks.
I would have added the brief note – of the kind mentioned by Guyénot himself – that it’s hardly sustaining and bolstering our European people to, for example, send so many hundreds of thousands to Skythopolis death camps for the sole crime of remaining ‘Gentile’, as occurred from 359CE.
Someone made the point in paraphrase that ‘well, it must have had some merit as it caught on…’ without making mention of the sort of low life scum it originally caught on among, the foreigners and radicalised slave classes unfortunately present in Rome with renewed strength (I suppose those given a leg up since Emperor Claudius’ 41CE constitution to protect slave legal rights, and those sort of unhelpful precursors, and of course the fearful change in attitudes in aftermath of the Spartacus slave war post 71BC).
This is what Adunai said on 28 July of the last year:
And in another thread:
By the way, thanks to Morgan’s appropriation, I have replaced the category “deranged altruism” with the tag “Jesus Derangement Syndrome” because that is what atheistic hyper-Christians suffer from.