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Virginie Fayad
Believe it or not, there are bright young professionals in Ottawa who aspire to be something other than bureaucratic drones, if you know where to find them. I discovered some last week. They meet monthly under the guidance of the Rev. Dr Andrew Bennett, who once upon a time was our Religious Freedom Ambassador. Those were the days when Canada still knew what religious freedom is and had such an office. Anyway, I visited them at Cardus for a quodlibet and I will share here some of the questions raised and answers attempted. These are musings, however, and no more than that, which I beg the reader to bear in mind.
If ever we had that consensus, however, we do not have it now. Moreover, we cannot hope to have it now, save by way of repentance and revival. Churches and synagogues should be pursuing that prayerfully. They should be pursuing it with great earnestness. Let them read their scriptures with ears that hear. Let them read, too, the opening book of The City of God, in which, following the sack of Rome by Alaric, Augustine points out to his co-religionists that the innocent have been punished with the guilty because the innocent are not entirely innocent. Both have suffered because the former did not confront the latter with their sins and, just so, invite them to repentance. They were too busy going along to get along, and getting along so as to make social and financial headway, having invested too much in temporal goods and not enough in eternal goods.
It may be that things are so far gone in our own time that, only through some sudden disaster that strips us of our pride and complacency and cures the madness that has descended upon us, will we see such a consensus emerge. Be that as it may, what has descended upon us is no eternal day of light and life. It is what the prophets called a day of the LORD, a day of judgment, a day of confusion and strife, a day when madness lays waste both society and state.
We are mad in matters of immigration, as Tucker Carlson reminded us in his recent visit, though those orchestrating this are not altogether mad. Indeed, they are acting quite strategically. Replace the existing population, which is passably cohesive and self-sufficient, with a new population lacking both qualities; the latter will be dependent upon you in ways the former is not. That is not rocket science or even climate science. It's as risky as riding a rocket, but it makes sense if you want to convert democracy into plutocracy, a free society into a fully domesticated one. When I left London for Montreal, I could already see that it was the strategy Blair and Brown and Mandelson were following. What I didn't yet see was that it was being coordinated internationally, that a war on multiple peoples and nations was under way.
Why are we in receipt of such manifest nonsense from our political masters? Because the denial of sex is necessary in order to complete the demolition of the family as "the natural and fundamental group unit of society," which is what that quaint old document, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, calls it. On this feature of our madness a few further remarks before resuming the course of my argument, for it matters much to my argument.
Among our own contemporaries, one man who understood that was William Gairdner. Besides being a successful Olympic athlete, an equally successful doctoral student in literature and philosophy at Stanford, then a teacher at York University, chair of the Gairdner Foundation and founder of Civitas, Bill Gairdner was a prolific and powerful diagnostician of cultural decay, writing penetrating works such as The Trouble with Canada and The Trouble with Democracy and The Book of Absolutes. He died on 12 January. If a serious obituary has been written, I've yet to see it, but I trust it's coming. [update: a reader points me to this by Tom Flanagan]
One of his most important works is a massive tome published by Stoddart in 1992 called The War against the Family: A Parent Speaks Out on the Political, Economic, and Social Policies that Threaten us All. Its first chapter is titled "The State vs. the Family." The managing editor of Stoddart when that book appeared was Donald Bastian. Last October, alas, we lost Don also, at a somewhat younger age. May they both rest in peace.
Such a heartfelt cry in the Canadian conceptual wilderness reminds me of nothing so much as the many booklets, pamphlets, and tracts published by private Canadian and American citizens during recent centuries, prior to the rise of the homogenized public orthodoxies now suffered on mass publics by mass media. There was a time when concerned citizens took up such writing as a moral and political duty (often at their own expense) in order to ring the change of their most passionate ideas on the public forge. It is a rousing thing to see it here.
To talk of a Christian state under such conditions, even to talk of a state based on natural law and the fundamentals identified in Gairdner's Book of Absolutes, is like talking about lost Atlantis or Nmenor. The decline of the West looks increasingly like a complete collapse of the West. But if you ask me, not whether I think such a state attainable or recoverable, but only whether I think we would benefit from having such a state, the answer, I repeat, is Yes. And if you press me as to whether we should work toward it, despite past failures and present conditions, the answer again is Yes.
We must work soberly, but urgently. We have no alternative. Tectonic plates are shifting beneath us, pulling us apart. Storms are building such as we have seldom, if ever, seen. Those who have the kind of faith lauded in Hebrews 11 will not panic. Nor will they neglect their obligation to love their neighbours as themselves. They will work alongside them for the sake of the earthly city, while encouraging them to seek citizenship in the heavenly, in that city of eternal peace which will never collapse or sink into the sea. They will say with the psalmist, taking the same comfort, that
God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore we will not fear though the earth should change,
though the mountains shake in the heart of the sea;
though its waters roar and foam,
though the mountains tremble with its tumult.
All this is important, all this is necessary, though demanding is one thing and achieving another. But, even if achieved, or partly achieved, it is not enough. We must also contest the secularism of the public sphere, calling it out for what it is: theology by sleight of hand and, embryonically, a new religion. There has never been a religionless society or a religionless state, nor ever shall be. The a-theology of secularism is still theology, albeit an intellectually thin sort of theology that cannot hide the deep moral corruption it engenders. Into the void created gushes a highly volatile mixture of scientism and socialism, the synthesis of which produces a violently utopian mindset, a Marxist religion totalitarian in spirit and ruinous in practice. That religion is in every way the enemy of the family.
Well, if I am not arrested in mid-sentence, the next question I shall speak to can be addressed rather more calmly. It concerns the differences between those whom Bruce Pardy calls Virtue People and those he calls Freedom People, and the dilemma he raises as to whether they can work side by side against the madness I have been describing. How far Bruce would agree with my description of that madness here, or with my resolution of the dilemma in Part Two, I will not venture to say. Among my own readers, as among his, there will surely be differences of opinion, but no Denken verboten.
My answer to this first question is dialectical. It begins with \u201CNo, it doesn't.\u201D For the better country in question is a heavenly one, in the sense that the city of God comes down from above rather than arising from below through political elbow grease. It is the work of God, not the work of man. Or rather it is the work of the God-man, who has already done the heavy lifting and deep cleansing; and of the Spirit of God, who is at work preparing citizens of that country and willing subjects of that sovereignty.
No one else can do what needs to be done; nor can anyone prevent what God has determined to do. The Spirit broods over the dark waters, over the chaotic sea of nations, until the command is given, \u201CLet there be light!\u201D And behold, there is light, light and vision.
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband; and I heard a great voice from the throne saying, \u201CBehold, the dwelling of God is with men. He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself will be with them; he will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain any more, for the former things have passed away.\u201D
Those who look for no such world, and those who fancy they are building it themselves, are both making an enormous mistake. The \u201Crealist\u201D and the utopian are both confused. There will be such a world, but they cannot build it. They can only anticipate it and bear witness to it. If, that is, they discover faith.
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