Our PDF on neochristianity, which extensively quotes passages from Tom Holland’s book, Dominion, is central to understanding this site. Therefore, I was interested in watching this video defending Holland against the criticism of a secular humanist, Stephen Woodford, even though the video’s author, Glen Scrivener, is a Christian:
I discovered the video because Richard Carrier, whom I’ve been discussing recently, has tried (here)—like Woodford—to refute Holland with a string of strawman arguments!
That doesn’t mean I agree with everything the Christian Glen Scrivener says about the atheist Carrier, whom he calls an “incredible fringe historian” because Carrier doubts the existence of the historical Jesus. Nor does it mean I accept Holland’s neochristian morality, who, in one of the clips within the video embedded above, says that the Judeo-Christian idea of man created in the image of God has given dignity to humankind. (Savitri Devi has written that this Judeo-Christian idea has caused animal abuse in the West by considering every wingless biped on the planet as brothers, at the expense of animals.)
However, Glen Scrivener’s video is relevant in showing how secular humanists distort Holland’s thesis because they are deeply troubled, and feel threatened, by the idea that Christianity gave rise to the secular values of the West today.
Why does it bother them so much? (here we see another atheist in a series of videos strawmaning Holland by quoting the Old Testament when Holland is talking about the New Testament). Keep in mind that secular humanists are not Nietzscheans. If they were, instead of embracing today’s Western values—such as equality (see my recent instalment of Might is Right)—they would repudiate them.
Like Tom Holland himself, all these atheists who criticize Holland are actually neochristians. Glen Scrivener is not a neochristian but an Anglican Christian. On this site, we are against both, but more so against secular neochristians because they have taken Christian ethics to the stratosphere, as Holland aptly demonstrates in the final chapters of Dominion.
Recall this site’s seminal article metaphor of the Red Giant (neochristianity) star that burns up all the nearby planets: a metaphor for ethno-suicide throughout the West. For example, in the video Glen Scrivener said that out-group altruism originated in Christianity because it didn’t exist in pre-Christian times. What Scrivener omits is that this deranged altruism—which we call Jesus deranged syndrome—, is precisely what is causing the English roses of his country to be sucking the dicks of some orc migrants in this very moment.
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A red giant, to oversimplify, is a star that has lost its core, and this causes it to go hyper, such that it destroys planets astronomic units away. The supernatural core of Christianity keeps it tethered to the social mores of the first century. Jesus and Saul are terminuses beyond which the inherent subversiveness of orthodox Christianity cannot go beyond. However, when a Christian becomes a humanist, then he/she has slipped from orthodox Christianity’s moorings. The newly deconverted “humanist” now finds himself/herself on an open sea of utter craziness. It is like that clip of Rebecca Watson, where she says that whenever she deconverted from Christianity, she ipso facto became a humanist. It is almost as though “secular humanism” is just an aggressive form of Christless/Godless Christianity. “Secular humanism” is what is left when the myths and miracles have evaporated. “Secular humanism” is like an axiological residue of Christianity.
When Christianity loses its supernatural core it goes hyper, and destroys habitats such as Rhodesia and South Africa, in the same way that the sun will destroy our earth, one astronomic unit away from it, when it goes hyper, in about 4 billion years. This is why I call it “atheistic hyper-christianity”. You call it neo-Christianity.
I constantly see Leftist atheists trying to shame Christian Nationalists into being more Christlike, i.e. into adopting the suicidal teachings of thr sermon on the Mount. As Ragner Redbeard put it: the preachifier of the Sermon on the Mount is “the true crown prince of evil”. Ayn Rand also says that an enemy who destroys one is less evil than an enemy who convinces his victim to destroy himself. Jesus is the personage who persuaded the formerly white West to destroy itself, with suicidal teachings such as turn the other cheek; resist not evil; and welcome the xenos/stranger/foreigner.
Excellent reflection! Thank you so much.
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