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The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

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6a2ee1  No.809801

Generally speaking, it must be felt as evident that beyond earthly life there is a higher life, as only those who feel this way have an intangible and unconquerable strength and are capable, when necessary, of active sacrifice and absolute elan. In the opposite case, to have little regard for one's life is possible only in moments of exaltation and when irrational forces are unleashed, while disciplines that aim beyond an individual's life cannot be endowed with a higher meaning. I have already discussed this in chapter 3; without a similar direct reference to a reality that is more than human, there can be no overcoming of the solutions advanced by a utilitarian and contractual sociology, nor a climate of high political tension. However, a given religious confession may be used only as a support for such an orientation, and merely in terms of an arousing action. In Catholicism, specific reservations should be made. Concerning the political dimension, if Catholicism, feeling that decisive times were approaching, had the strength to rise above the contingent plane and to follow a line of high asceticism; and if, on such a basis, Catholicism, almost as in a revival of the medieval Crusades, had not hesitated to fortify faith with the soul of an armed, united, and inexorable bloc of powers, set against the currents of chaos, compromise, and the political materialism of the age—in that event there would have been no doubts as to its value. However, things happened otherwise.

Aside from the relativist Catholic view that no particular political regime may be regarded as "willed by God" or even accorded special acknowledgment; and after the times of De Maistre, Bonald, Donoso Cortes, and the Syllabus have passed, Catholicism has been characterized by political maneuvering and by its taking advantage of various situations, avoiding any stance that is too committed. Inevitably, the Church's sympathies must gravitate toward a democratic-liberal political system. Moreover, Catholicism had for a long time espoused the theory of "natural right," which hardly agrees with the positive and differentiated right on which a strong and hierarchical State can he built. Nowadays things have deteriorated in the sense of a rapid, disturbing collapse of every valid element in Catholicism, and in the sense of a desire to "be in tune with the times," with the modern world, and with the direction of history

6a2ee1  No.809813

Militant Catholics like Maritain had revived Bergson's formula according to which "democracy is essentially evangelical"; they tried to demonstrate that the democratic impulse in history appears as a temporal manifestation of the authentic Christian and Catholic spirit. But this is not the end of it; in the climate of "opening to the Left" it seems that not only isolated intellectuals, but the highest Catholic hierarchies as well, do not hesitate to bestow this consecration on Marxism itself, and to engage in "dialogue" with communism, in order not to be "left behind." By now, the categorical condemnations of modernism and progressivism are a thing of the past. Teilhard de Chardin, with his updated version of Catholicism in regard to science and evolutionism, is about to be rehabilitated. This may also be the case for Ernesto Bonaiuti, the modernist apostle of a purely social view of Catholicism; and of Mounier, who, while opposing both capitalism and communism, does not conceal his sympathies for the latter, deploring the Church for not being the first to take an initiative analogous to the proletarian-communist revolution (Maritain's own view). When today's Catholics reject the "medieval residues" of their tradition; when Vatican II and its implementations have pushed for debilitating forms of "bringing things up to date"; when popes uphold the United Nations (a ridiculous hybrid and illegitimate organization) practically as the prefiguration of a future Christian ecumene—this leaves no doubts as to the direction in which the Church is being dragged.

All things considered, Catholicism's capability of providing adequate support for a revolutionary-conservative and traditionalist movement must be resolutely denied. We shall more likely be able to witness some return of the Church to its origins, namely to that climate of early Christianity that displayed very "modern," socialist, and communitarian traits, al-most as a "white communism"; the direction being pursued enables today's Catholics to be in rune with the "march of history" (as it is envisioned by sub-version), avoiding any "reactionary" and "integralist" attitude


81bdc5  No.809822

>>809801

>Nowadays things have deteriorated in the sense of a rapid, disturbing collapse of every valid element in Catholicism, and in the sense of a desire to "be in tune with the times," with the modern world, and with the direction of history

A bloody prophet. Imagine what Evola would say about the contemporary Catholic Church.


f1c3aa  No.809839

>>809822

>a blood prophet

no, people were anticipating the onslaught of americanism way before Evola wrote about it; certainly the several Popes did

>what would he say about the contemporary Church

nothing you haven't already heard. I have no idea what anyone sees in this guy.


3dddab  No.809864

>disturbing collapse of every valid element in Catholicism, and in the sense of a desire to "be in tune with the times," with the modern world, and with the direction of history

One council later..


45f21a  No.809875

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>>809839

>what do people see in him?

The inner edgelord likes Evola because he hates the modern world like the edgelord does. Especially the /pol/acks like him because he is a philosophical fascist like they are. Personally, I thought he was pretentious, even when I was an edgy /pol/ack myself.


1f2f95  No.809880

>>809822

Pius X talked and others talked about this long before Evola. Evola is also gay so even if he's right on this subject, it's pretty much the only thing he's right about.


e55880  No.809894

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>>809801

>>809813

You know, he was essentially right, but I think that he is mistaken about what the faith is. He seems to suppose that Christianity as a whole and Catholicism in particular is a political entity with a fixed ideology. This is not so, and neither faith nor experience remotely suggest it.

Really for this reason Oswald Spengler is to be preferred as a thinker; Spengler realized that we must act in view of the real potential latent in the zeitgeist, rather than allowing ourselves to be dominated by ideological concerns. This agrees fully with Christian Love, which must be responsive to the real situation that people find themselves in to save them out of the pits into which the world allows them to slip.

The absolute WORST thing about what Evola has to say here though is that it's not heresy per-se, just liberal indifference and carelessness. There's nothing heroic about the faith that you hear preached these days.


2a8b29  No.809897

>>809801

Op you should read his opinion on the spanish falange (spanish fascism) if you want to have a more complete opinion in his views of catholicism

https://juliusevola.files.wordpress.com/2016/01/36-falangism1.pdf

>JULIUS EVOLA ON SPANISH

FALANGISM.

>With this premise, every materialistic interpretation of history is rejected by the Falangists; its spirit is

conceived by them as the source of every truly decisive force – it is worth pointing it out. And a

profession of Catholic faith is likewise natural; the Catholic interpretation of life is, historically

speaking, the only one that is “Spanish” and every work of national reconstruction must pertain to it.

This will not mean a Spain, which would once more have to submit to the interference, intrigues and

the hegemony of ecclesiastical power, but a new Spain, animated by the “universal Catholic sense” that

already guides her, “against the alliance of the ocean and barbarism, to the conquest of unknown

continents”: a Spain permeated by the religious forces of the spirit.

>So the Falangists fight for these ideas, as a “volunteer warrior” meant to “conquer Spain for Spain.”

These are ideas that, in their general outlines, seem to us perfectly “in order”, they already present a

precise aspect and may have the value of solid points of reference. If the Spanish national movement

will really be penetrated by them, we have a double reason to sincerely wish them a complete, rapid,

and decisive victory: not only for the negative anti-Communist and anti-Bolshevik facet, but also for

what in its positive aspects will be able to follow from it in the whole of a new hierarchical Europe, of

nations and of personality.

>>809875

>philosophical fascist

He wasn't a fascist though, he was an ultra-traditionalist, reactionary perhaps. In any case he was very critical of fascism for not going far enough, he even descried himself as a superfascist, like beyond fascism.

>like they are

Oh come on, /pol/ is just contrarian with barely any opinion of their own, remember when they spent almost 3 years licking trump boots and it was needed almost 2 strikes in syria for them to consider that maybe /theirguy/ was not on their side? I still remember the meltdown.


375ae5  No.809912

>>809897

I still remember /pol/ before it was trump central and they were sucking off Evola and the NRX. Even more than that, when they were still between An-Cap and Libertarianism. The only useful part of /pol/ is to exercise true skepticism, most importantly of yourself and the neckbeard who screams the loudest in the moment.

Polite sage for off-topic. I never read Evola, seemed like an edgier Nietzsche. I still miss the Radish Mag though.


2a8b29  No.809921

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>>809912

> were sucking off Evola

Well why wouldn't they?

TBF Is not like there are many right wing thinkers nowadays that point out the failure that is the modern world, of capitalism and communism and the focus he puts in the relevancy of tradition appeals to a lots of young men nowdays ,specially when they see their countries overrun by subverters, migrants, commies,etc.

>seemed like an edgier Nietzsche

Evola is pretty tame tbh, the edgy prize goes to alfred rosenberg


375ae5  No.809927

>>809921

Define nowadays. There are many NRX/Trad minded writers and thinkers these days. Evola was merely earlier and better. Ezra Pound too now that I think of him. It's just as outdated as Cultural Marxism yet the ideas will continue to exist. Younger than Capitalism/Socialism to be sure. The novelty is gone, and you are left with the same pathetic clinger-ons as always.

>Rosenberg

Funny, wasn't he outed as a Jew? Looking it over he was a Baltic German, basically a foreign noble class that lorded over the slavs. Explains Lebensraum and Der Untermensch. No wonder the Allies didn't take too kindly to the invasion of Poland. Even more ironic that the German aristocratic remnants plotted against Hitler so frequently.


c644d8  No.809933

>>809921

Rosenberg is an intellectual ant compared to Evola.


6db2d5  No.809969

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The faith isn't a political prop.


c515ce  No.809977

>>809912

How is /pol/ Trump central, they hate him there


51bd96  No.809990

>>809977

Lurk moar


48ba8e  No.810071

>>809912

>Trump central

Lol. Trump was /polguy/ before Syria strikes. You probably do not go to /pol/ at all

>inb4 not one person

of course, but vast majority of /pol/ hates Trump now

>I never read Evola, seemed like an edgier Nietzsche

Not that much. I won't agree with Evola on theology, but Evola negates Nietzsche in many things. if you care to know how exactly, read ride the tiger.

>>809990

>>809977

>points out the truth

>lurk moar

what? Perhaps you should lurk more on /pol/ to know they hate Trump now




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