No, Racialism is not Catholic, Not Even Right Wing Catholic

C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien on Christian Parties · I get a curious feeling about some right wing French ... · No, Racialism is not Catholic, Not Even Right Wing Catholic

Racialism in fact belongs to a theory more promoted in Pierres vivantes or Dutch Catechism than in Catechisms of Pope St. Pius X, as CMI, staunch opponents of this theory, have recently highlighted:

Second, the cultural supremacy of ‘white’ peoples was taken as a given. Think of the effects of the Atlantic slave trade and the spread of European colonialism. ... How did evolution contribute? It provided a biological explanation for this ‘data’: some populations evolve faster than others and thus outcompete other populations. Transpose this to human races, and it was easy to think that evolution demonstrated that the cultural supremacy of European ‘whites’ had a biological basis—‘whites’ evolved faster than ‘non-whites’.

CMI : Darwinism and racism – are they linked?
Published: 27 February 2021 (GMT+10), Feedback
https://creation.com/darwin-racism-link

How does it enter the Right over here?

Admirateur d'Ernest Renan, il exerce une influence forte sur Maurice Barrès, qui suit ses cours de 1893 à 1897.

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Soury
Footnoted to Zeev Sternhell, Maurice Barrès et la nationalisme français, p.254

Admirer of Ernest Renan, he exercises a strong influence on Maurice Barrès who follows his courses from 1893 to 1897.

Now, the reference to Zeev Sternhell is perhaps suspect to some Nationalists over here. The fact is, this fact on Jules Soury was also promoted in the weekly paper Rivarol, which had an article on Jules Soury.

I do reproach the French Right for being racialist and for being, via Barrès, disciples of Soury and through Soury even Renan.

And obviously for being favourable to racialist theories like a newly republished edition on Pardès on The Aryans - where they are supposed to originate in the far North during the Glaciation of Güntz. And where we get glimpses of their spirituality (mostly based on Germanic and Hindu, to lesser degree pagan Roman spirituality, educationwise perhaps deducted from Celts).

But the influence of Soury and Renan doesn't end here, unfortunately ... determinism and therefore a view of man as ultimately immoral and as criminals determined by genes and upbringing to less responsibility and self restraint than society around them happens to prefer, and therefore to be followed up in lifelong mental or prisonwise persecutions rather than being free once they serve their time, this also has an echo with the Right Wing over here, including Christian ones.

Now, why exactly did C. S. Lewis think Christian parties were a bad idea for England? First, yes, it was precisely for England, and second, it was because England had been since 1900/WW-I very dechristianised. He thought, bringing back Christendom is a good thing, but only possible in a Christian country. I am afraid his stance may have been abused in US, much more Christian than England back then, by Evangelicals and Broad Church Anglicans (Episcopalians) bent on not promoting Christendom.

“He who converts his neighbour has performed the most practical Christian-political act of all.”
from Meditation on the Third Commandment (in God in the Dock)

Essential C.S. Lewis : (CCSLQ-32) – Fixated on Politics
February 4, 2017 William OFlaherty Confirming Quotations, Not Quite Lewis
http://essentialcslewis.com/2017/02/04/ccslq-32-fixated-on-politics/

(Anglicans divide commandments, like Calvinists and Orthodox, so that not taking God's name in vain is third, rather than second).

France back before his death in 1963 very certainly was more Christian than either US or UK, majority Catholic. But both Gaullist Christians and Far Right Christians have collaborated successfully with non-Christians to the point of each making policies incompatible with Christianity. I am not anti-Gaullist (after all, I am fairly German for a non-German, and he did shake hands with Adenauer), but I am closer to Far Right than to Gaullists.

It seems, however, they may prefer to take my reproach as a full fledged "prise de distance" and as excluding them re-publishing anything I write : so I either take it back or stop claiming to have sympathies for Tradition. Well, neither. I know my position, not point by pointg but all points together, is here and now solitary. I prefer getting work re-published by people disagreeing on other topics and therefore also different work by different people, over having nothing re-published on paper at all.

I don't have the charity to convert the people I am with. I also am not with anyone even for one hour per day. But I do contribute with arguments. Those who do have the charity and social life I lack should better use them.

You do not win any soul really for Christ by pretending the Condemnations by Tempier in 1277 don't apply any more, when they were the model for Pius IX's Syllabus.

You don't restore Christendom by taking a view of penal right where the culprit once condemned is a patient for the rest of his life, either, nor one where he is so as long as shrinks and similar "expertise" with their insatiable itch to humiliate, don't think he's cured yet.

You save neither souls nor French culture by pretending that we can't be sure Moses wrote Exodus or that what he wrote was true.

Hans Georg Lundahl
Paris
II Lord's Day of Lent
28.II.2021

PS, it seems Creationism is low in France:

A 2011 poll conducted by global research company Ipsos for Reuters found that 55 % of French considered themselves as 'evolutionist's' ("believe that human beings were in fact created over a long period of time of evolution growing into fully formed human beings they are today from lower species such as apes"), 36 % don't know what to believe ("sometimes agree or disagree with theories and ideas put forward by both creationist's and evolutionist's"), and 9 % considered themselves as 'creationist's' ("believe that human beings were in fact created by a spiritual force such as the God they believe in and do not believe that the origin of man came from evolving from other species such as apes").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creationism_by_country#Europe
Ref: "Ipsos Global @dvisory: Supreme Being(s), the Afterlife and Evolution". and [2]

Bad job, if you try to oppose apostasy!/HGL