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Myth of Judeo-Christian Culture
Jeff J. Brown: Thomas, knowing your erudite expertise on Christianity, I have a question for you: When did Jews get control of the Vatican? I know it was at least in 1942, when the Jewish psychopath Rothschild clan created the City of London Vatican Bank. T.P. Wilkinson: I will check on your query before I […]
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The Ritual Roots of Animism, Drama and Sports: The Work of Jane Harrison and the Cambridge Ritualists
My friends claim that I am irreverent to the Olympian gods. My interests I am told are unduly focused on ghosts, bogies and pillar cults. I prefer savage disorders, Dionysian origins, the tearing of wild bulls to the ordered and stately ceremonial of Panathenaic processions….The gods who once mirrored human unity with nature came to […]
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Are We Having a God Problem?
Hubble Spots Fireworks in Westerlund 2 (Image by NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team [STScI/AURA]) Is God not the ultimate human creation? The gods we inherited were designed for small populations, scattered across the earth, with narrow horizons. They concerned themselves with intimate details—how we ate, dressed, or made love. Each was tied to a […]
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Not Taking a Position on Gaza IS Taking a Position on Gaza
It’s not okay to claim ignorance or uncertainty about what’s happening in Gaza in 2025. You’re an adult. You have internet access. If you don’t know, learn. You can’t just go “it too compwicated, me no understandy, googoo gaga.” It’s not cute and it’s not okay. Grow the fuck up. Not taking a position on […]
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From Agrarianism to Transhumanism: The Long March to Dystopia
A total demolition of the previous forms of existence is underway: how one comes into the world, biological sex, education, relationships, the family, even the diet that is about to become synthetic. — Silvia Guerini, radical ecologist, in From the ‘Neutral’ Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology (2023) We are currently […]
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Aryan Idols and the Search for Indo-Europeans
Orientation Mythology and folklore can be used for political and religious purposes whether they be to support socialism or fascism. What was going on at the end of the 19th century politically and in the 1930s that made mythology so attractive to both German and French fascists? Why did the imagined gods of the Indo-Europeans […]
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Spring Traditions and Celebrations: The Past, The Present and the Future of Farming
The Fight Between Carnival and Lent (1559) by Pieter Bruegel the Elder Introduction Eleanor Parker writes in her book, Winters in the World, that “in Anglo-Saxon poetry winter is often imagined as a season when the earth and human beings are imprisoned, kept captive by the ‘fetters of the frost’. Naturally enough, then, spring is […]
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Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism Part II
Summary of Part I After briefly reviewing the theories of the relationship between religion and nationalism, I find the theories of Anthony Smith, George Mosse and Adrian Hutchinson the most compelling. They all agree that religion provides the propagandistic foundation for nationalism. But I also claim that it is a particular kind of religion, monotheism, that is […]
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The Monotheistic Roots of Nationalism Part I
Do religion and nationalism compete with each other? Do they replace each other? Do they amplify each other and drive each other forward? Do they exist in symbiosis? Theorists of nationalism have struggled with this question. At one extreme of the spectrum is the early work of Elie Kedourie (1960), who argued that nationalism is a modern, […]
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Missionary Strategy for Social Engineering
More than twenty years ago I published a study in which I argued that South Africa’s apartheid system was created by mission and land appropriation.1 This obviously implicated the Christian churches, including those that had claimed to be opposed to the British policy enshrined in the National Party programme when it came to power in […]
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