One of the most curious paradoxes of our present time is that the Christian mentality has ended up becoming one of the main problems of the West.

Today that same civilization lives trapped in a moral framework that demands it turn the other cheek even when the blow is obvious, as if self-defense were a theological sin.

In Europe’s international politics this is evident. Where are the men?

Even more striking, the “ex-Christian theologians” of our time have no problem blessing foreign imperialisms so long as they are not Hebrew.

Bolivarian expansions: tolerated.Russian expansions: justified or relativized.Jihadist expansions: explained away as “social problems.”

But the moment Israel responds to attacks with force, the magic words of the modern moral discourse suddenly appear: racism, fascism, colonialism, Nazism…

The catechism of hatred echoes from the accuser’s own heart.

Curiously, this left-wing incantation works perfectly against the European white........

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