IDEOLOGY AND ETHICS SURVEY
Additional Commentary and References

23.	What is the preferable function of religion in a society?

	A strong genetic.viewpoint:				A strong environmental.viewpoint:
*	Religion is largely an expression of		*	Real religion depends on divine revelation
	certain types of altruistic genes				applicable to all men, cultures and times
*	The character of religion depends on		*		We require revelation to overcome hu-
	the innate character of the population				man nature, which is often bad
*	Religions that encourage detribaliza-		*		Tribal religions are obsolescent before
	tion increase parasitic vulnerability				new revelations that can remake man

Sample argument: From a purely scientific viewpoint, religious emotion is subjective, genetically-based behavior that inspires individual sacrifice for long term group survival. This is analogous to the way sexual instincts help motivate reproduction, the creation of a family unit, and long term nurturance of offspring. Religions start in history as tribal "natural religions." From a social-Darwinian viewpoint, groups with strong religious instincts often conquer and displace groups with weaker or dysfunctional religious instincts, thereby gaining more territory and hence population expansion for their brand of altruistic genetic expression. For a group's feelings of altruism to continue to survive, a tribe must mate within itself to perpetrate its altruistic genes. When mothers adopt alien children, this can be a parasitic consumption of their altruism if they help alien genes expand at the expense of those of their own tribe. Societies need to maintain their genetic uniqueness in order to better retain their identity, fend off aggressors, optimize group effectiveness, and achieve their highest cultural pitch. Religious feelings often help define the fault lines of irreconcilable differences with other societies. Maintaining awareness of differences through religious code speak can be a good thing. When we mix up all the races, we may smother superior genes within a sea of mediocrity.

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Sample argument: Universalistic world religions tend to be "environmental." They are the ultimate way to go. They inspire men to sacrifice themselves for abstractions beyond the selfish survival needs of their immediate tribe. They generally preach that all men have equal souls and an equal chance at some form of salvation. Instead of focusing on the traditions of ones immediate tribe, they approach religion with (allegedly) sacred texts, indoctrination, and mass persuasion that apply to everyone. Universalistic religions help restructure societies to be based more upon ideology than tribal loyalties. This can be a good thing from the vantage point of people who live in multi-racial, multi-ethnic urban centers who need a psychological formula to help them get along better with people of many different racial and ethnic backgrounds. Also, compared to a "natural religion" (see opposing statement) universal religions can be more flexible. Whereas natural religions often focus upon heroic tribal lore and spiritual interpretations of natural phenomenon, universal religions such as Christianity and Islam have leftist social revolutionary ideology embedded within them that can provide opportunities for political leaders to cut across racial, ethnic, and class boundaries in building mass political power bases, creating empires, or consolidating provinces under their control.

ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY:

My guess is that most Americans who take this quiz will tend to agree with the environmental viewpoint. A major reason is that most Americans are Christians. Christianity is very evangelical in nature. The term "evangelical" is fairly synonymous with the terms "universalistic" and "egalitarian," all of which are leftist (or "environmental") in nature.

Conversely, most Americans have been exposed to either a combination of informational blackout and vilification regarding the alternative natural religion viewpoint. The term "natural religion" has some close associations with terms such as "tribal," "hereditary," "heathen," and "pagan," all of which tend to be rightist (or "genetic") in nature.

Many of the writings of Saint Paul and other disciples in the New Testament are unequivocally hostile towards paganism. Various pressure groups such as the Jewish ADL like to paint white tribal religion as being somehow "neo-Nazi."

Most Americans rarely stop to think how the pot is calling the kettle black when it comes to the ADL, to the extent that Judaism is one of the most tribal religions in existence. Worse yet, as patriotic Christians such as Rev Ted Pike and Elizabeth Dilling have observed in their writings, the Talmud encompasses the very worst form of tribalism in existence -- criminal tribalism.

I might also add that indigenous northern European tribal religions tended to decentralized and libertarian in flavor. In contrast, we associate Nazism -- like Zionism -- with a highly authoritarian political movement.

It is true that tribal religions tend to be vastly more conscious of the need to maintain the racial and cultural integrity of a society than universalistic religions, but as I have explained elsewhere, tribal societies that follow classical liberal principles are in fact the most productive and least dangerous societies over the long run. They can be the best neighbors of all for people of other nationalities, tribes, and races.

The problem for conservative Christians who reflexively hate indigenous white tribal religion and its symbols is that they risk throwing the baby out with the dirty bath water and becoming automatic leftists. Embedded in tribal religion is a reverence for ones indigenous culture, heritage, and ancestry. A reverence for these things is normally considered healthy in any society, even if no particular theology is attached to them. Conversely, a widespread symptom of social decay is a situation where people are cut off from their cultural and ancestral roots.

Algiz Rune

As an aside, I think that it is interesting to examine how this has been represented on a symbolic level. During the period of romantic nationalist political movements in northern Europe in the late 19th century, various Germanic traditionalists started to use the Algiz rune (also known to Christians as a variation of the "fork cross") to symbolize "life," "birth," and "protection." On tombstones and obituaries, this symbol would be inserted by the date of birth. Conversely, they would show this symbol flipped upside down to mark the date of death. The inverted Algiz rune can be interpreted as a tree cut off from its roots and turned on its head, or a man who was striving upwards who has now been turned on his head in despair. Interestingly, the "death rune" is identical to what Christians call "the broken cross," which to some people has Satanic connotations. This symbol was adopted by the 1960's counter culture crowd as a pacifistic "peace" or "disarmament" symbol and promoted along with drug use, nihilistic rebellion, race mixing, and Marxism by America's Jewish supremacist-dominated national media.

The following is an extract from my environmental vs genetic discussion where I explain the natural religion concept in some detail and its relationship to a revealed religion such as Christianity:

"Natural" religion, law, and ethics

An important concept in right wing political theory is the idea that societies tend to function over the long haul within a certain band of innate temperamental traits. These traits form an anchor point regarding its customs and traditions, to include its "natural law," and its "natural religion." Obviously something as specific the names of particular deities or particular legal procedures are cultural artifacts and are not specifically encoded in ones genes. However, the general style or attitude of law, religion, and folklore may very definitely reflect a genetically-based cultural personality.

As one example, a legal system that consists of relatively simple and logically consistent principles that apply to people across all strata of society, and which is tries cases according to evidence, facts, and logic, reflects a very different cultural personality and innate mentality than, say, a Talmudic legal system that consists of endless piles of convoluted and arbitrary regulations that can be reinterpreted to ensnare virtually anyone displeasing to people in power.

We can see innate mentalities at play in the character of various world religions. As an example, in his classic work The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans, Dr. Hans Gunther discussed how ancient Nordic/Germanic peoples found spirituality in an orderly Cosmos that one could approach through individual initiative in a calm and logical manner. He contrasted this with certain exotic Asian religions that emphasize finding spirituality before a disorderly cosmos by achieving states of altered consciousness and spirit possession induced by a shaman.

In the first case, religious themes involving logical consistency, individual initiative, and mechanical understanding of the material world may reflect genetic sculpturing under dispersed conditions in a frost zone environment that put a premium upon innovation and technological adaptiveness for survival. They may reflect an intuitive, internally directed, independent, logic-driven personality.

In the second case, religious themes involving spirit possession, distrust of reason, and emphasizing supernatural intervention may reflect mentalities that have evolved from environments where genetic survival depended on the ability to simultaneously ingratiate, deceive, supplicate, and submit to human competitors within an authoritarian environment. Psychologists often classify personalities oriented towards immediate gratification and towards sensing how to administer the right social strokes at the right moment in social situations as "externally directed" and "reactive" personalities.

People who are at home with deception tend to have fractured personalities. They may be attracted to monotheism as a focal point to help hold together their fractured nature and keep their bad and often contradictory instincts under control, somewhat analogous to the way many criminals may require an authoritarian prison environment to avoid further mischief. They may revel in creating endless religious rules and regulations that give an appearance of authority and a sense of structure and security. Simultaneously, being innately crooked, they also revel in their ability to reinterpret and manipulate religious rules to suit their selfish interests at will, much like the Pharisees in the New Testament.

Genetic theory suggests that when a conqueror tries to impose an alien religion, culture, or form of government on a society, over time this society will tend to adapt these things to fit its indigenous personality. As one example, Christianity became highly decentralized both in terms of church government and by splintering into various denominations among Nordic peoples following the Protestant Reformation, whereas it remained relatively more authoritarian, centralized, and dogmatic among Alpine and Mediterranean peoples elsewhere in Europe.

Therefore, wise long term statesmanship tries to work within the context of a people's instinctive traits and cultural personality. If political leaders try to socially reengineer people into some one-size-fits-all creed, they risk creating major social stresses and dislocations. In other words, since different societies have unique innate traits, and different social and political institutions emanate from those traits, there is no "one size fits all" religious or political ideology that fits all societies.

It is fine for societies to borrow what they might admire from an alien culture and adapt it to their own frame work, but it is predatory for one group to impose its social and political institutions on another group by force. This is one reason why the current neo-con agenda to use the American military to impose "democracy" on Middle Eastern countries is so unwise and inconsistent with early American classical liberal principles.

Applying scientific principles to morality and religion

Two landmark works that attempt to relate genetic principles to morality and religion are A New Religion From Science: Beyondism (1972) and Beyondism, Religion From Science (1987) by Dr. Raymond Cattell. Basically these works take the viewpoint that genetics comprise an underlying "profit" and "loss" statement in human affairs. Just as a business must earn a profit to survive and grow, so too must a society engage in eugenic practices to remain strong and viable. Conversely, just as a business that runs red ink for too long will go out of business, societies that engage in net dysgenic practices for too long will inevitably fall by the wayside or be taken over by others that maintain eugenic policies. This is an iron law of nature, and nothing can change this.

Through Dr. Cattell's scientific lens we can look at various contemporary philosophies in a different light. Take, for example the Playboy Philosophy and radical feminism which devalue if not reject the role of creating a stable marriage and having children. Modern industrialized societies already suffer from a serious dysgenic problem where people of lower intelligence tend to have more children than people of higher intelligence. To the extent that these philosophies pour fuel on the fire of these problems, they are negative. Perhaps "trial before purchase" in dating can be a rational strategy if it does not consume to much of ones prime child-bearing years and helps one find a better long term mate, but permanent "trail before purchase" with no children is clearly a parasite philosophy from the genetic viewpoint, in which enjoyment of sexuality is completely stripped away from its reproductive purpose.

In many respects Dr. Cattell performed in the late 20th century what Friedrich Nietzsche tried to accomplish a century earlier. Nietzsche tried to reconcile Darwinian theory with contemporary moral and ethical systems and understand the differences. Dr. Cattell drew from more recent findings in the social and natural sciences in an effort to move at least a quantum step ahead of Nietzsche on a scientific level.

From a scientific viewpoint, "religion" is based upon subjective, genetically-based feelings much like the sex drive, except it motivates a somewhat different form of pro-social behavior. Whereas our genetically-based predisposition towards eroticism motivates reproductive behavior, our religious emotions motivate altruistic, mutually-supporting group behavior and the will to live. In other words, tribes whose members feel a strong genetically-based emotional predisposition toward religiosity will be more likely to have members who are willing to put up with the sacrifices involved in becoming good parents and making the self-sacrifices necessary to engage in teamwork in time of war.

It should be obvious that tribes capable of teamwork will tend to displace and spread their genes at the expense of other tribes who cannot unite and cooperate in the face of encroachments. It should also be obvious that since religiosity has a genetic basis, the character of religious feeling can be altered through mutation and race-mixing.

Not surprisingly, many people who take the genetic approach tend to gravitate towards tribal, indigenous ancestral religions that are based upon longstanding traditions or the ancient "religious common law" of their own people. Conversely, they tend to become quickly disenchanted with "revealed" universalistic religions that advocate a "one size fits all" plan for morality and personal salvation.

The "natural" religion concept compared to a "revealed" religion

The "natural religion" concept is fairly simple. Over time, a tribe will tend to accumulate folklore, to include heroic tales that acquire mythic meanings with retelling over generations. Part of their mythic meaning will interface with intuitive associations that involve natural phenomenon and ultimately address questions of ultimate meaning. For example it is a no-brainer in many cultures that "winter" intuitively signifies "death" and "spring" or the winter solstice signifies rebirth. Similarly, the "moon" tends to have a feminine association because lunar cycles resemble menstrual cycles, and the moon tends to be noticed at night and hence has a more "romantic" or "dreamy" association.

An example of an intuitive approach that explains many primeval associations in the Nordic tradition is Leaves of Yggdrasil by Freya Aswynn, a former Wiccan who became an Odinist. In contrast, Dr. Marvin Harris, an anthropologist at the University of Florida, has used a functionalist approach to try to explain the social logic behind the evolution of such religious practices as sacred cows and witchcraft in his books Cannibals and Kings and Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches.

Significantly, with a "natural religion" it is often easy to remain an agnostic, atheist, pragmatist, rationalist, or scientist. One does not need to take any of the folk mythology literally. One can think of ones natural religion as "truth in poetry" that helps to inform ones religious instincts. One might believe that maintaining an ancestral folk mythology is healthy to support a sense of group cohesion and continuity. It may be a least bad alternative compared to embracing a dogmatic, intolerant, alien, universalistic religion. For certain individuals who reject mainstream Christianity and become agnostics or atheists, it may also be a better alternative compared to embracing some form of social liberalism that betrays the genetic interests of ones own people.

Many ancient Greek and Roman writers fit this model. They scrupulously avoided any mention of supernatural intervention in their scientific, historical, and political writings, yet were respectful of their own people's religious mythologies. Many ancient Indo-European religionists were also played down the development of complex theologies, taking the attitude that there is enough natural joy and awe through living in harmony with nature that there was no need to try to explain the unexplainable.

Chinese Confucianism is also another example of a natural religion, because it evolved out of the ethos of a people. Interestingly enough, it does not demand a belief in supernatural intervention. In North America, we have also seen efforts by various tribes such as the Sioux (or Lakota) to revitalize the Sun Dance and other indigenous religious ceremonies in an effort to restore tribal cohesion and spirituality.

The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans by Dr. Hans Gunther argues that many early Americans such as Thomas Jefferson embraced "natural religion" by becoming deists. They only accepted an approach to religion fully consistent with natural law. Dr. Gunther felt that Thomas Jefferson's religious views fit the general pattern that characterized Greeks of the heroic era and other ancient Indo-Europeans.

In contrast to a natural religion which emanates from the indigenous religious "common law" and folk traditions of ones own people, a "revealed" religion typically emanates from some guru or messianic figure. This new revelation is frequently universalistic in nature. Quite often it is attractive to people in multi-cultural or urbanized societies who have become alienated from their tribal and ancestral heritage and who need to frequently interact with alien peoples on an economic level. In addition, "revealed" religions often remove people from nature, much as they are removed in an urban environment.

We need to bear in mind that when "revealed" religions start adding intricate rituals, religious scriptures, a priest class, social programs, a church bureaucracy, mandatory tithing, and other props or practices that reinforce a sense of legitimacy, we begin to revisit many of the same issues I discussed in my "top down" vs. "bottom up" section. As church bureaucracies grow in size and become more centralized, they begin to parallel the arrogance and dysfunctionality of government bureaucracies.

"Revealed" religionists often feel that if only they can just keep piling coercion, self-deception, and "appearances" high enough, they may eventually create a self-reinforcing and self-sustaining system of illusion, much like the way the pork politicians can ultimately create a politically dominant position for themselves by continually growing the props of government.

Religion as an important component of the genetic viewpoint

Religion and kinship ties can comprise vital factors in the cause of preserving liberty. For example, Kevin Phillips makes the case in The Cousins' Wars that strongly held religious values played a key role in defining sides in the English Civil War, American War of Independence, and even the War Between the States. In a very serious political contest, religion helps answer the question about who is willing to risk their lives to prevail. All other things being equal, this is often the deciding factor.

During the English Civil War, the side of Oliver Cromwell and the Parliamentary forces was principally led and manned by Puritans from eastern England. These people were heavily middle class in their values and sensibilities. They came from a part of England that had seen the initial Anglo-Saxon invasion and later saw the heaviest Norwegian and Danish incursions during the Viking era. Hence, they were considered the most Nordic/blond part of England. They comprised the ancestors of most of the colonists who settled New England and later formed the Minutemen who drove British Regulars off North Bridge at Concord in 1775. One might say that at the inception of the American Revolution, New England was a homogeneous de facto Nordic-Protestant ethnostate.

Today religion for white Americans is often more a source of confusion than coherence. Most Americans today are influenced by extremely liberal forms of Christianity that preach multi-racialism and multiculturalism. Christian Zionists even preach showing that one should show greater loyalty to Jews in Israel than fellow Americans.

Many liberal Christian churches have also covered up pedophilia, which hardly encourages white boys to grow up into responsible family men. (Please note article "Cost of Clergy Sex Abuse Now Exceeds $1.5 billion).

Many Christian churches have also espoused the "theology of liberation" in support of Marxist guerillas in places like Latin America and Africa. Many liberal Christian Churches supported the takeover by black Marxists of South Africa and Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia). As a consequence, in the former Rhodesia a black dictatorship has expropriated white farmlands and has driven most whites out of the country. In South Africa, white farmers are getting killed off as the black Marxist government looks the other way. The South African economy is now experiencing the same disintegration into a basket case that the former Rhodesia has experienced ahead of it.

The demise of South Africa and the former Rhodesia under black rule is part of a very long historical pattern, going back to the black takeover of Haiti, and even earlier. This is documented in books such as The French Revolution in Santo Domingo by Dr. Lothrop Stoddard and Black Rules White: A Journey Across and About Hayti by Hesketh Prichard. In all cases, the governments and economies involved have all deteriorated into a much more primitive and savage state. We have also seen this here in America in black-run cities such as Detroit and Washington, D.C.

Despite all of this, many liberal Christian Churches continue to support illegal alien immigrants against white Americans within America's borders. These Third World immigrants have physically replaced over thirty million Americans in the last few decades and are sending welfare costs through the roof. White Americans are already losing over 20% of their population each generation with their below ZPG birth rate. Massive Third World immigration only adds to this anti-white genocide. Liberal Christian Churches add insult to this injury by encouraging whites to yield to nonwhites everywhere and even support the invaders with their tax dollars. By working against the genetic interests of white Americans, many liberal Christian Churches for all intents and purposes serve as enemy alien propagandists.

Admittedly there are some important complexities behind the scenes involved in liberal Christian white racial treason. For example, an article in the former Spotlight (now reincarnated as The American Free Press) discussed how the CIA and Mossad worked behind the scenes within the U.S. embassy in South Africa to support the South African Communist Party and other black entities hostile towards white rule, while sabotaging white patriotic South Africans behind the scenes. There is even circumstantial evidence that Zionist agents murdered Dr. H. F. Verwoerd who preached an effective form of self-sufficient white nationalism, whereby whites would create homogeneous white enclaves where white farmers and other business owners would kick the bad habit of surrounding themselves with nonwhite employees. We also know that America's Zionist-dominated media and Jewish pressure groups worked hard to demonize white South Africans and overturn white rule in both Rhodesia and South Africa. They also got legislation through Congress to boycott South Africa.

This is part of a longstanding pattern where Jewish-controlled media in both America and Europe have pushed hard ever since World War II to promote open borders for white countries. They have also pushed hard for white de-colonization and retreat from empire for European powers everywhere in the Third World. We also know that at various points in history, Zionists have both infiltrated and bought off parts of both the Catholic Church and Protestant Churches. There is evidence that they have even perverted translations of the Bible to foster a pro-Zionist sentiment. As an example, please see Reverend Ted Pike's Feb 28, 2006 interview with Daryl Bradford Smith about how Zionists perverted the Scofield Bible, first published in 1909.

Because Christianity has a leftist, universalistic philosophical structure, it is hard for many Christian leaders to take a stand against sophisticated pressure groups trying to push them further to the left into multi-racialism and multi-culturalism.

How Americans confuse the "right wing" with fundamentalist Christianity and "leftism" with agnosticism

Just as most Americans seem to have serious problems distinguishing between corrupt and traditional forms of Christianity, they have even more problems distinguishing between traditional and highly corrupted forms of paganism or natural religion. Most Americans are incapable of distinguishing between an authentic ancestral folk religion that preserves ethnic homogeneity and continuity on the one hand, and various forms of selfish and permissive libertinism, leftist secular humanism, or superstition on the other hand.

In fact, there once was an indigenous Indo-European religion held by the ancestors of most whites, much like there was once a proto-Indo European language that later branched out into Sanskrit, the Romance Languages, the Slavic Languages, and the Germanic languages. Similarly, the proto-Indo European religion branched out into Asatru in the north, Druidism in the west, the early Greco-Roman religion in the south, and early Hinduism in the south.

The Religious Attitudes of the Indo Europeans by Dr. Hans F. K. Gunther is an important work that examines the philosophical structure of these early religions. Dr. Gunther argued that the tendency of Indo-Europeans to understand the world in a relatively rationalistic manner, that is, to attune to "the [mathematical and orderly] music of the spheres" does in itself constitute a religious impulse. Hence, we should not confuse the philosophical structure of early Indo-European religion with various New Age cults that might try to make superstitious use of some of its symbols, to include runic lore.

Adding to religious confusion in America today, many Americans equate the "right wing" in America with Christian fundamentalism, and atheism with the radical left. This is very simplistic and misleading. A substantial portion of America's intelligentsia, both on the left and right, has found the Christian religion to be unbelievable ever since the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment. This transformation took place sometime between the arrival of Cromwellian Puritans in New England to the formation of groups of Enlightenment Deists prior to the American Revolution. This latter group placed the scientific method, free inquiry, academic freedom, and separation between church and state first before any fundamentalist Christian doctrines.

Of course Puritanism has not gone away either. It has simply been born again in new Christian fundamentalist denominations, to include virulent new Christian Zionist strains. In his March 21, 2006 Democracy Now! interview, Kevin Phillips, author of American Theocracy claims that 45% of American Christians believe in Armageddon.

Some other works that highlight the grip that Christian Zionists have on Americans include Sydney Schanberg's Village Voice articles "The Widening Crusade" and "Turning Point: George Bush's Holy War Threatens Our Presidency -and Perhaps the Future of Our Nation," Sydney Blumenthal's Guardian article "The Religious Warrior of Abu Ghraib" about General Boykin, and Dr. David Duke's article "Woman Evangelist Says She is More Loyal to the Israeli State than to America."

These kinds of groups can become so overshadowing in national media that I think it is important to spend some time explaining how there exist substantial numbers of hard core American nationalists who have a totally different religious world view. This world view is more in line with the natural religion concept and the genetic world view. Any Christians out to "save America" today through evangelistic strong arm methods are more likely to antagonize and create resentment among these kinds of thinking individuals than accomplish any real public good. It behooves any Christians interested in creating a common patriotic front to understand how these fellow nationalists think.

A good starting point is America's own Tom Paine, author of Common Sense that helped ignite the American Revolution. He explained his reasons for disenchantment with Christianity in The Age of Reason. Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin were two other well known nationalists of this era who were also agnostics/deists. They were familiar with the works of Voltaire and other European Enlightenment free thinkers. They also had some of their own heretical ideas. As one prime example, Thomas Jefferson went through the four gospels, stripped out all the supernatural events, and then consolidated the stories into The Jefferson Bible. A thorough rationalist and deist, Jefferson felt that the supernatural tales obfuscated the true teachings of Christ. After clearing away this obfuscation, he was able to find some ethical teachings that he could agree with.

Criticism of Christianity by nationalist thinkers moved forward a quantum leap with the advent of Darwinism in the mid-1800's and the Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee in the 1920's. Higher Criticism theology, combined with research into antiquities and archeology, picked the Bible apart further. Two good examples from this era are The Bible Handbook: For Freethinkers and Inquiring Christians by G. W. Foote and W. P. Ball published in 1900, which lists contradictions and absurdities in the Bible, and Ingersollia: Gems of Thought from the Lecture, Speeches, and Conversations of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, published in 1882. A preface to a compilation of Col Ingersoll's lectures describes his views and values as "those of the Agnostic school of thought as exemplified by Hume and Kent with a mingling of the philosophy Berkley...Col. Ingersoll departed this life with the same convictions that he held all through his career, both as soldier and citizen, a true patriot, a lover of home, mourned by all who knew him..."

Speaking of the late 1800's, we cannot overlook the publication of Friedrich Nietzsche's The Anti-Christ in 1892. This helped to advance a philosophically anti-Christian strain of nationalism. When Nietzsche compared Darwinism with Christianity, he concluded that Christian philosophy is so leftist and universalistic that it does more harm than good to society by inverting or transvaluating healthy instinctive values. He believed that the ancient pagan Greek religion comprised a much more natural and healthy religion for society. He charged that Saul of Tarsus (the Apostle Paul) deliberately spread Christianity throughout the Roman Empire in order to turn it on its head. Nietzsche believed that Saul may have sought revenge for the Roman destruction of Jerusalem during the Jewish War. Later a Jewish writer, Eli Ravage, embellished Nietzsche's theory with his articles "A Real Case Against the Jews" and "Commissary to the Gentiles" published in the January and February 1928 issues of The Century Magazine respectively.

Nietzsche was certainly not unknown among American nationalists. H. L. Mencken, a guiding light of the American Old Right in the early 20th century, translated Nietzsche and published The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche in 1908. Simmering in the background, we also see works such as Which Way Western Man? by the former American Christian minister William Gayley Simpson who continued Nietzsche's frontal assault on Christianity. Equally scathing works were produced by the late Dr. Revilo P. Oliver, a professor of classics and former co-founder of the John Birch Society. Last, but not least, one must also mention the brilliant works of the late Dr. William Pierce, a former physicist, who founded the Cosmotheist Church.

A number of writers and historians have claimed that the leftist, mystical aspects of Christianity has gone so far as to weaken converted populations. They challenge the assertion made by many Christian conservatives in America today that American institutions and morality are ultimately based on "Judeo-Christianity." They believe that the reality has actually been more of the reverse.

This is especially true given that the term "Judeo-Christianity" is itself a highly suspect intellectual construct. The "Judeo" part of this phrase gives Zionists a psychological leverage point in their efforts to high-jack Christian Americans to blindly support their schemes.

Let us start with some famous writers who have made cultural arguments without necessarily implying a genetic change. Nicolo Machiavelli wrote that pagan Romans of the early Roman Republican period were more hardy and virtuous than the Christian version that came later. Salvian the Priest saw more virtue among pagan northern European barbarians than among his fellow Christianized Romans. Edward Gibbon stated in The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire that Christianity weakened Rome before outside invaders. James Michener observed in Rascals in Paradise that blackbirders (slavers) of the Pacific in the 19th century usually picked on Christianized native populations first, because they tended to put up less resistance and became more docile slaves than pagans. According to a number of writers, Christianity had to transition from being a mystical, universalistic religion into a militant, nationalist ideology before Spanish Christians could stand up to Moorish invaders, Russian Christians could withstand the Mongols, and Balkan Christians would successfully resist the Turks.

One example of an American right winger who has openly charged Christianity with causing genetic damage is the aforementioned late Dr. Revilo Oliver, who discussed Christian homosexuality, the dysgenic effects of the Crusades, and the negative effects of Christian celibacy among priests.

Today one can find even more intellectual body blows to Christian dogma, if only one knows where to look. For example, a number of major Christian churches sponsored a "Jesus seminar" of leading scholars in the early 1990's who concluded that at least 80% of the Gospels is fiction. In addition, American free thinkers have become even more aggressive, such as American Atheist leader Madelyn Murray O'Hair who planned to write a book before her untimely death demonstrating that the story of Christ is total fiction. Last, but not least, additional archeological evidence and scholarship now challenge the historicity of major segments of the Old Testament, to include the stay of Israelites in Egypt, the Kingdom of David, and the Book of Esther.

In fact, one begins to wonder after reading Asimov's Guide to the Bible and Philip R. Davies' In Search of Ancient Israel whether ancient Jews were ever anything other than a highly organized, urbanized, quasi-underworld, and professional minority whose real center of gravity lay in Babylonia, not Palestine. One might also wonder if they ever departed from a pattern of creating satellite syndicate operations to dominate Middle Eastern water holes and various urbanized areas of the ancient world.

The Biblical stories suggesting glorious and self-sufficient kingdoms in Palestine, a servile tenure in Egypt, and various bucolic and pastoral settings are so contrary to this other pattern, to include even the psychological pattern of the Babylonian Talmud, that one might wonder if much of the Old Testament was deliberately created as disinformation. The Israeli dissident writer Uri Avnery wrote in "Israel's Provocations: The Method in the Madness" that:

. . .most Israeli archaeologists have always been the loyal foot-soldiers of the official propaganda. Since the emergence of modern Zionism, they have been engaged in a desperate endeavor to "find" archaeological evidence for the historical truth of the stories of the Old Testament. Until now, they have gone empty-handed: there exists no archaeological proof for the exodus from Egypt, the conquest of Canaan, and the kingdoms of Saul, David, and Solomon. But in their eagerness to prove the unprovable (because in the opinion of the vast majority of archaeologists and historians outside Israel – and also some in Israel – the Old Testament stories are but sacred myths), the archaeologists have destroyed many strata of other periods.

Even the site of the Dome of the Rock Mosque that many Zionists would like to level in order to make way for the Third Temple is subject to doubt. Unfortunately the Dome of Rock happens to be the third holiest shrine in Islam, and destroying it to make way for more Zionist real estate development is likely to spill even more rivers of blood in the Middle East — and cost ever more American treasure to support their schemes.

John Tiffany wrote The Myth of the Wailing Wall for the March/April 2006 issue of the Barnes Review:

Neither the Dome of the Rock near the center of the Haram esh-Sharif in Jerusalem, nor the Al Aqsa Mosque occupying the southern side of the Haram (nor any area within the four walls of that haram, or sanctuary) was, in reality, the true spot in Jerusalem where the historic temples of ancient Israel were located. Biblical and literary accounts dogmatically place the site of tall the temples over the Gihon Spring just north of the ancient City of David (Zion) and on the southeastern ridge of Jerusalem. All the present antagonists fighting in Jerusalem over the "temple site" (who are out to turn their bombs and guns into plowshares) are warring over (and for) the wrong place.

Some Christian reactions

I must point out that not all American Christians support Zionist schemes to destroy Muslim holy sites. Nor do they necessarily support Jewish media propaganda in favor of nonwhite Marxist guerillas, open borders, pedophiles, or Zionist Christians.

One good example is Dr. David Duke, who offers some Christian common sense to offset Zionist madness. In his landmark work My Awakening, Dr. Duke explains why his Christian beliefs are completely compatible with white racial nationalism. He feels that the Bible has been misinterpreted and perverted to suit an alien, anti-American, Jewish supremacist agenda. He also explains why he does not view himself as white supremacist, but rather as someone who supports self-determination for all peoples around the world. He also explains why he respects the indigenous Indo-European religions of Europeans as well as the indigenous religions of other peoples. A chapter in his book even covers the vital contribution to science, culture, ethics, and religious philosophy made by pagan Greeks of the pre-Christian heroic and classical eras.

Another good example of a real American and a genuinely patriotic Christian nationalist is the Reverend Ted Pike, archived with America First Books. Here, as well as at his own web site truthtellers.org, he identifies Zionist neo-con warmongers and war criminals who are waging a determined domestic campaign to strip Americans of their civil liberties.

Last, but not least, Col Donn de Grand Pre is a Christian who has written an excellent series consisting of The Vipers Venom and The Rattler's Revenge (incorporating an earlier work Barbarians Inside the Gates). These books expose international Zionism and provide a hard-headed assessment of America's real enemies as well as a good overview regarding how we got into the mess we face today. In fact, this series received praise from Michael Collins Piper in a book review he wrote for the American Free Press.

Reconciling Christianity and the Natural Religion Approach

I personally hold to the view that "the more things change, the more they stay the same," consistent with a conservative, genetically-oriented viewpoint. Furthermore, all religious and political ideologies can be perverted and corrupted. Indeed, there exist perverted and corrupt forms of paganism just like there exist perverted and corrupted forms of Christianity. I believe strongly that Christians and natural religion adherents should keep open minds and learn from the best that each side has to offer rather than scream and throw knives at each other. This is particularly important as we try to find a spiritual path that aids the survival of America's declining white population rather than one that remains the dupe of international Zionism.

I believe strongly that the very sublime and dignified services held in many Protestant and Catholic Churches are time-tested role models worthy of emulation. If I were to try to revitalize a natural religious approach, I would try to keep everything just about the same in terms of the general style and structure of the religious services currently used by Christians, and merely make some changes in the symbols.

We would, however, definitely change the content of the sermons. For starters, no more of this hand-wringing white guilt, white self-hatred, Zionist bootlick stuff going on in my natural religion church!

Incidentally, such an approach just might serve some liberal Christian churches just right. There is considerable evidence that the early Christian churches in Europe played the same game in reverse in terms the clever way they co-opted prevailing pagan customs and services. Many of our current traditions such as All Saints Day (Halloween), Christmas, and Easter have some strong pagan roots.

What I would definitely discourage are "Hollywood pagan" approaches that are deliberately intended to be "far out," "shocking," or a license to be outrageous. There are certain self-styled, so-called pagan groups that use "religious services" as an excuse to throw hippie costume or toga parties, revitalize superstitious spell-casting or fortune-telling activities, engage in promiscuous orgies, drunkenness, and public nudity, or indulge in other practices which leave most conservative American family people stone cold. Like I said, paganism can be perverted by selfish, immature, exhibitionist, or criminal people to have some very degenerate, if not evil forms just like Christianity. However, just because some folks abuse paganism does not mean that all pagans are part of some kind of global Satanic conspiracy in service of a Luciferian Anti-Christ.

To put things in better perspective, I believe that the every day behavior of many ancient pagan Greeks of the heroic era and pagan Norseman up through the Viking era was really not very much different than the Puritans, Calvinists, Presbyterians, Lutherans, or other American Christians on the frontier who came later. In fact, in terms of their basic values and philosophical structure, to include the emphasis on valor, exploration, self-improvement, self-restraint, and individual responsibility, the ancient Greek epics and old Norse sagas are very similar to American pioneer and cowboy stories. This should not be a big surprise, since racially they were essentially the same people.

I would also like to observe that white Americans can find more than enough spiritual causes on American soil worthy of their energies without having to go overseas to destroy mosques and genocide Arabs and do other nasty things for Israel and Big Oil. Let me provide a good example.

In 1997 Stephen McNallen, head of the Asatru Folk Assembly based in Nevada City, CA, sued the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. (Incidentally, I signed the paperwork for his group at Federal Court in Portland, Oregon). He claimed that there was strong evidence that 9,000 year old bones found along the banks of the Columbia River near Kennewick, Washington were of European origin. Hence, indigenous Indo-European religious rites would be more appropriate to perform over the remains than, say, native American religious rites.

The American Asatruar were concerned that certain Native Americans were trying to misuse the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act to take exclusive custody of the bones, bury them, and thereby prevent scientists from studying them. These Indians may have been concerned that the existence of whites in North American 9,000 years ago might upset political correctness interpretations of their special victimhood status. In fact, Paiute Indian legends tell about tall, reddish-haired, white skinned people who their ancestors wiped out long ago. Among other things, physical evidence of ancient anti-white genocide might undermine the white guilt that entitles Indian tribes to continue benefiting from lucrative gambling franchise privileges which in turn enables them to make cash contributions to whatever political party is in power that controls the Army Corps of Engineers.

The Army Corps of Engineers went to outrageous lengths to pander to the Indians by bulldozing over the Kennewick Man site along the Columbia River. It also looked the other way when visiting Indian groups pilfered portions of the Kennewick Man skeleton. In contrast to these twisted politics, American Asatruar simply wanted to allow scientists full access to study the bones. They also demanded that Army Corps of Engineers show some basic consideration for their indigenous Indo-European religious and cultural concerns.

We see in religion a very similar long term theme that we also see in politics. Over the long run, it is more the men who make the system than the system that makes the men. Furthermore, "the more things change, the more they stay the same." In many respects the peoples of the north could afford to be pagan, because their ancestors had survived a rigorous evolutionary process in frost zone environments that tended to favor individuals with a rationalistic mind set and good character. This helps to explain the famous quotation from Salvian the Christian Priest from around 440 AD who found the invading Germanic barbarians to be vastly morally superior to his fellow Christian Romans.

In what respects can our customs be preferred to those of the Goths and Vandals, or even compared with them? And first, to speak of affection and mutual charity (which, our Lord teaches, is the chief virtue, saying, "By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another "), almost all barbarians, at least those who are of one race and kin, love each other, while the Romans persecute each other. For what citizen does not envy his fellow citizen ? What citizen shows to his neighbor full charity?

[The Romans oppress each other with exactions] nay, not each other : it would be quite tolerable, if each suffered what he inflicted. It is worse than that ; for the many are oppressed by the few, who regard public exactions as their own peculiar right, who carry on private traffic under tile guise of collecting the taxes. And this is done not only by nobles, but by men of lowest rank; not by judges only, but by judges' subordinates. For where is the city ­ even the town or village ­ which has not as many tyrants as it has curials ? . . . What place is there, therefore, as I have said, where the substance of widows and orphans, nay even of the saints, is not devoured by the chief citizens? . . .

None but the great is secure from the devastations of these plundering brigands, except those who are themselves robbers.

[Nay, the state has fallen upon such evil days that a man cannot be safe unless he is wicked] Even those in a position to protest against the iniquity which they see about them dare not speak lest they make matters worse than before. So the poor are despoiled, the widows sigh, the orphans are oppressed, until many of them, born of families not obscure, and liberally educated, flee to our enemies that they may no longer suffer the oppression of public persecution. They doubtless seek Roman humanity among the barbarians, because they cannot bear barbarian inhumanity among the Romans. And although they differ from the people to Whom they flee in manner and in language; although they are unlike as regards the fetid odor of the barbarians' bodies and garments, yet they would rather endure a foreign civilization among the barbarians than cruel injustice among the Romans.

:Let us compare these hardy barbarians with supposedly refined Pharisees who allegedly benefited from a long evolutionary history in the racially mixed urban sprawl Babylonia. If environmental theory is correct, and genetics plays no role in religion, we would expect these men to be among the wisest religious leaders on the planet. Instead, we find the exact opposite. We find them to being castigated as the worst degenerates and hypocrites. In fact, I have already characterized their depravity in my commentary for question 17, which I will repeat below:

Loop holes in the Talmud permit all kinds of amazing perversions. Please see Rev Ted Pike's analysis of the corruption in the Talmud in the Rev Ted Pike archive. Some examples include the articles: "Pedophilia: The Talmud's Dirty Secret," "Talmud: Wellspring of Jewish Pornography Industry," and "Have You Read the Talmud Lately?" He feels that an important mission of Jesus was to try to help the Jews clean all this up. If we are to accept Bible stories as actual history, then instead of feeling grateful, the Pharisees framed and murdered this innocent man and then continued with their evil ways.

Please consider other analyses of the Talmud, for example the online work The Jewish Religion, Its Influence Today by Elizabeth Dilling. In her first chapter she commented "... the Talmud reverses every one of the Ten Commandments, the teachings of Moses and the Prophets, and enshrines their opposites under a `whited sepulcher' which is a disguise for murder and `all uncleanness,' as Christ charged. Murder of non-Pharisees is always permitted; theft, sodomy, incest, rape are all permitted. For example, the righteousness of grown men violating baby girls under three is a favorite topic for discussion in book after book of the Talmud."

Please also see the Talmud Unmasked written in 1892 by Father I. B. Pranaitis. These types of works might help you understand why Martin Luther, the founder of the Protestant movement, experienced a remarkable change in his attitude towards Jews after he first read the Talmud. He latter penned On The Jews and Their Lies.

I take a more secular viewpoint. In my analysis of Jewish criminal totalitarian psychopathology in my mutualism vs. parasitism article, I discuss how the Jews evolved as a highly urbanized people in very focused occupations that reward trickery over the past several thousand years. Perhaps as much as 40% of the Jewish population could be genetically psychopathic. Their convoluted and nasty legal traditions seem to mirror this underlying social reality. There is a vicious and mafia-gangster quality to Jewish behavior that is alien to northern European traditions that esteem chivalrous conduct and individualism.

It bears repeating that while not all Jews are bad, the Jewish culture seems to be so heavily geared towards deception, low cunning, and the selfish exploitation of out-groups that the worst Jews do not infrequently rise to the top. Perhaps it is no great surprise that Jews have led organized crime in America as well as political mass murder in Russia. They have run exploitive industries such as ante-bellum black slavery, contemporary international white slavery, liquor, anti-white propagandistic entertainment, and pornography.

As a last comment in this section, the book The Christ Conspiracy:The Greatest Story Ever Sold by Acharya S. makes the point that so many pagan elements have been absorbed in the creation of Christianity that trying to make a sharp dichotomy between "Christianity" and "paganism" is in fact very misleading. She believes that instead, Christianity may be better characterized as an imperial, universalistic religion that contrasted with tribal, rural natural religion. It provided an ideological formula that helped delay the Roman Empire during its declining period from having its multi-racial, multi-cultural society fission apart. However, this ended up happening any way.

Seen from this perspective, the New Testament is in many ways two books in one. On the one hand, you have Jesus Christ acting heroically against the corruption of the Pharisees, telling them that they are of their father the devil, and that they resemble a resplendent sepulchre, white on the outside and full of filth on the outside. That would almost sound like an indictment of the corruption of Rome made by a naturally honorable Germanic barbarian with good basic instincts who follows a natural religion, similar to what Salvian the Priest talked about. At the same time, we see a Jew named Saul of Tarsus (renamed Saint Paul) repeatedly sneer at the wisdom of the Greeks and other pagan greats in the face of superior Jewish wisdom. Interestingly enough, unlike the Greeks who developed a coherent theory of science, republicanism, and democracy in the 4th to 6th centuries B.C., the Jews never developed anything that remotely compares with all of this on an intellectual level.

In my mutualism vs parasitism article, I compare and contrast what I regard as a "productive" religion compared to a "parasite" or "criminal" religion or morality system. If we selectively edit the New Testament, much like Thomas Jefferson did with his Jefferson Bible, we can see how the basic message of Christ would make him appear to be more on the "producer" side of the equation, whereas the convoluted and Talmudic religion of the Pharisees who framed and murdered him appears to be more on the "parasite" (or criminal) side.

Productive Religious/Moral System ..................................................		.....	Parasite Religious/Moral System ....................................................
Consistent with principles outlined in Beyondism: Religion From Science and A New Morality from Science by Dr. Raymond Cattell; is ultimately eugenic. Five hundred years later, population of practitioners is still vibrant, intelligent, and prosperous, and not decadent and subsumed by aliens			Has a long term dysgenic decay impact on its practitioners. Extreme cases involve religious sects that die out because they completely abstain from sex or commit suicide (eg. Jim Jones' Guyana Cult, Hale Bopp Cult, suicide cults that want to bring on Armageddon/Masada Grand Finale, etc)
Moral precepts pass the test "What if everyone does it?" Answer: society prospers.			Morality consists of extreme double standards which attempt to trick the masses into slaving for a select few
Religion can be reconciled with a scientific world view. Encourages learning and free inquiry			Encourages fear of new ideas, superstitiousness, blind dogma. Discourages scientific, analytical thinking.
Leaves the individual empowered to find God in his own way. Encourages a responsible, adult approach to life.			Denies the right of the individual to find God in his own way, but instead demands costly intermediation of priest class and dogmas that have no provable basis in fact or logic to justify their existence, while treating adherents like children or sheep
Morality system is intended as a guide for honest people to live better lives.			Morality system is intended as camouflage to enable crooked people to better swindle their victims
Religious emotion draws upon natural, personal, feelings of sublimity and awe with the cosmos. Religious practices help motivate individuals to be productive citizens and stable family men.			Religious emotion centered upon fear and states of altered consciousness that self-anointed leaders can use to manipulate religious followers. Religionists feel empowered by malevolent acts that put fear and terror into others.
Religion can find new adherents in a calm, reasoning state of mind			Religion relies heavily on propaganda, fallacious logic, and brainwashing to recruit adherents
Religion relies on consistent principles			Religious principles can be manipulated at will by self-styled religious leaders to suit their selfish purposes.
Religion respects the fact that religious theologies are scientifically un-provable, and avoids straying too far from this fact with dogmatic additions to theology.		.......	Religion seeks to continually pile on ever more dogma, more church bureaucracy, more special privileges, and more aggressive proselytization on top of un-provable assumptions

 

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