Tag: Middle Ages

  • Authoritarian Ireland and the Secular Apocalypse

    Authoritarian Ireland and the Secular Apocalypse

    In his book, How The Irish Saved Civilization: The Untold Story of Ireland’s Heroic Role from the Fall of Rome to the Rise of Medieval Europe, Thomas Cahill shows how the Irish monks maintained European culture during the dark ages when Rome was sacked by Visigoths and its empire collapsed. In the subsequent chaos and […]

  • Nationalism as the Religion of the Modern West

    Nationalism as the Religion of the Modern West

    Orientation The emergence of a strange, secular god  “I am the Lord Thy God, Thou Shalt not have strange gods before me” is not just a religious commandment. Every nation-state expects their citizens to give up or subordinate their regional loyalties, their class, their ethnicity and even their religion to this new god. If we […]

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