What Christianity requires in order not to be destructive of society by Lawrence Auster

Conservative Swede said recently that my Jewish background means that I have more confidence as a spokesman for the Christian West than do gentile Christians, because for me the Christian God is the Jewish God, and the Jewish God is a national God for Jews, but a foreign God for gentile Christians, and therefore gentile Christians have only a universal or sacrificial ethos, and that's why the Christian West is going down.

It's an interesting theory with an element of truth, but the Swede is badly missing the point and ending up with a formula that would require the rejection of Christianity, which, of course, is his agenda. The key to Christian this-worldly confidence is not that an individual Christian be Jewish (an absurd and offensive idea); it is that Christian society--any Christian society--must include non-Christian cultural and political sources.

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