There is an intrinsic finality in Christian truth, beyond which all so-called 'progress' is in fact a regress.
The West has laboured for at least a century under the delusion that it could progress beyond the Christian Gospel. Now that the rising generation of the twenty-first century has realised that the indisputable superiority of Western civilisation was not the result of any particular Western genius, but rather the direct result of its rootedness in the truth of Christ, now that they understand that every other world-view - scientism, left-liberal 'wokeism', the -isms of the East, and especially islam - are all vastly inferior to the Christian conception of reality and lead to profoundly negative social outcomes, they are coming to understand that a re-discovery of the Christian bases of social organisation is the only way forward, if the West is to move forward at all.
The truth of the matter is this: it is impossible to 'improve' on the Christian Gospel or the Christian view of human life - one can only go further into it and explore its unsuspected depths. The revelation of Jesus Christ cannot be superseded - it can only be re-explored in order to grasp why it is of such supreme value and why it eclipses every other conception of totality. It is really quite simple: in Christ, the self-revelation of the Creator to humanity reached its definitive maximum, beyond which only the transformation of humanity into the post-human will provide further scope for development. Christ is the complete and absolute truth concerning the human condition, human society, human relations, human actions and the open-ended future of the human individual.
The history of Western civilisation was wholly a matter of providing insight into and access to the depths of the revelation of Christ and the significance of the Christ-event. It has taken us two thousand years to do this and in our immature arrogance, we imagined in post-Enlightenment Europe that we could do better than the Creator. We imagined that though all our science, philosophy, morality, politics etc. grew directly out of the Christian verities, now that we had become proficient in these things, we could bid 'adieu' to God and go it alone from that point on.
Error!
There is only one way forward for the West, since every other apparent road is one of decline, not to say degeneration: it we do not re-discover the intellectual wealth that is still contained in the absolute truth of Christ (yes, truth is a person, not a proposition), we will be occupied and subjugated by inferior and essentially mendacious conceptions of the nature of human life. The accounts of the enslavement of the Jewish people by various 'empires' as a result of their abandonment of the only true God are all cautionary tales, designed to emphasise this one basic truth: human individuals and human groups that abandon the divine favour and revelation they once possessed and enjoyed, inevitably undego painful decline and often disappear from history altogether. There are deceptive and mendacious doctrines of considerable virulence, contemporary counterparts of the Assyrians or the Babylonians, that are simply waiting for an opportunity to shackle the minds and bodies of those who lose their way and miss the mark.
The West is now in this position of extreme weakness vis-à-vis these false belief-systems, whose primitive infectivity constitutes their toxic strength. In this situation, there seem to be two equally dismal alternatives. On the one hand, there is the ghastly mechanical socialism favoured by the likes of individuals such as Yuval Noah Harari, that envisage a horrible world-system in which all human individuals - except the elites, of course! - will 'enjoy' minds and thoughts controlled by AI, in a foul simulacrum of human society that will be the ultimate panopticon. On the other hand, there is the 'religion' of islam with its micromanaged, regimented, rule-obsessed notion of human existence. There is, of course, the possibility of an alliance of convenience between these two, as has been imagined in some manner by various authors such as Maurice Dantec and Michel Houellebecq, the consequences of which would doubtless be a combination and refinement of the horrors of both systems.
That, briefly, is the rationale for the re-discovery, restoration and renewal of the Christian vision of reality, the definitive truth of Christ. That this restoration would have to be unsullied by the tribalism and party-loyalty of the various denominations and 'churches' goes without saying.
Tall order?
Yup!
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