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 an incredible string of straw man 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 committing the dishonest fallacy of using 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.