Is it possible, I wonder, that in labeling everything that doesn’t serve the elites as “Fascist,” and erecting our understanding of most of modern history on the defeat of Hitler and his Reich, that we have fallen pretty deeply into the error of “becoming a lot like what we hate?” This is my contention, as Powys’ diagnosis of Hitler’s Germany ominously lines up very well with what other perceptive critics (such as Paul Kingsnorth, Czeslaw Milosz, Ivan Illich, and Guido Preparata) expose regarding our own Western hyper-modernity. Along this line, another reason to drop the word “religion” as being helpful to the Church during this time is the fact that these anti-Christian constructions in our midst are definitely religions of their own, replete with their own priesthoods. They’re not going to be unmasked and deflated and tamed by another “religion.” as that is the failed approach of the “culture wars,” another name for our hyper-modern “Wars of Religion” which, as theologian William Cavanaugh and others have noted, were really power-grabbing wars of the burgeoning Nation State: same as it ever was, which is also to say that that is the divide et impera game that plays right into the hands of the “Machine,” “Bee-Hive,” or “Techno-Structure.”
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