Before I correct the record of the
on his recent piece who has conflated historic pagan religions of Western Civilization with that of deistic occultist degenerates in America’s elite class, I want to make a clarification.Those who know me personally know that while I am not a Christian, I am pro-Christianity. I am a theist; I believe in God. I believe that Christianity, as a religion, is a fundamental part of Western heritage and spirituality. This has not changed, nor will it ever. Although the majority of the West has moved on from Christianity, save for portions of America, and it is in a rump state, utterly corrupted institutionally, and incapable of reinvigorating people (save for its heresies), I understand the appeal and identify with some of it. To those Christians who know me, know this is not an attack upon you or your faith, for I respect it and admire your piety in the Lord. You have chosen to rage, rage against the dying of the light, and I empathize with that deeply. I don’t believe that denigrating or overall counter-signalling Christianity or Christians is a sound strategy politically speaking, but behind closed doors, and in specific literary circles, I have no problem providing my thoughts. I think that Christians are important allies in our mutual existential struggle against the Managerial Regimes plaguing our respective nations. I am proud to stand side by side with my Christian brothers, doing whatever I can, to the best of my abilities, to counteract the decline.
Our Misanthrope pulls no punches, referencing an article by
, famously known as The Distributist, titled “A Letter to Right-Wing Pagans.” I read through half of that before deciding to respond primarily to our insufferable Misanthrope.Before I respond to Misanthrope, some General Comments on Dissident Christianity
Admittedly, I’m not a fan of the majority of Christians on the right, particularly traditionalists on Substack. Before I open a salvo on them, I will say many of them are educated, well-written, and well-spoken. Many of them are respectable, as far as I know, often fathers of many children, who aspire to virtue. This is certainly better than a great many. Many of them have been in this business far longer than I have. Many of them are intelligent and offhand I enjoy many of their general insights. Overall, I wish them no ill will.
However, I’m inclined to believe they’re mostly out-of-touch, often Generation X or elder Millennials who caught the last chopper out of Vietnam and fundamentally don’t understand the socioeconomic or cultural reality of younger Millennials or Generation Z. Who are colourblind by their narrow fraternal environment of American ruralite post-postmodern Christians who seldom interact with people outside of their pseudo-collapsitarian communities. I say “pseudo” because they’re not crazed Libertarian doomsday preppers building bunkers with a hand shovel in the backwoods of Montana, but I’ve observed that the Christian Traditionalist tendency is “Quietism.” From what I understand about Quietism, this is the Christian tendency to be pacifistic, avoid all confrontation, completely abandon North American cities, urban or civil life, and retreat to what is a romanticist fantasy of pastoral agrarian landscape of isolated God-fearing communities, have a pint, and wait for this to all blow over. They’re convinced of the moral, ethical and philosophical superiority of their rural life, an desperately wait for the day they can starve the city boys out.
On that note, the worst and most obnoxious of them are former city slickers or suburbanites who move to the countryside, but that’s an entirely different argument, and I’m getting sidetracked. Perhaps my biggest criticism of the Christians is that they are extremely presumptuous people in “this thing we call” the Dissident Right.
They piggyback off the remnant adherence and nominal identification to Christianity among the irreligious populace who, if they attend church at all, attend churches that are completely captured by the deistic DEI God of Equity. They pretend their super-ultra esoteric Pageau Hermetic Catholicism, Christ-is-King MAGA communist groyper Christian “nationalism,” or “based warrior priest” Eastern European war footage Orthodoxy is the norm. They pretend that the bumbling Christian faithful know or understand half of what they discuss on Telegram, X, or Substack, and this gives them a false sense of security and inevitability. They speak with a false confidence that, to outsiders, would appear that they’re truly in the know, that everyone is in fact Christian, and it’s only a matter of time before everyone else is. This is completely out of touch with reality. If you look at who is Christian and who isn’t, you start to see the brutal picture. For simplicity’s sake, we will focus on North America and Western Europe, with the dividing line being the old NATO boundaries. Let’s break down the facts:
In 2024, the following percentages of national populations identified as Christian
Portugal: 84.8%
Italy: 83.8%
Denmark: 79%
Norway: 76.7%
United States: 65% (Pew Research Center)
Belgium: 65%
Canada: 53% (Pew Research Center)
Spain: 67%
Switzerland: 58.2%
United Kingdom: 59%
Germany: 57%
Netherlands: 43%
France: 63% (Pew Research Center)
On its face, you’d be inclined to believe that the majority of the Western world is Christian: God-fearing, church-going, has read and understands the Bible, and partakes in a community, correct? Wrong. The overwhelming majority of people who identify as Christian don’t go to church, and this is explained by baptisms at birth or early life inductions that never lead to anything. The real percentage of practising Christians is as follows, with Portugal hilariously being not even a quarter of what it claims, despite having the highest rate of identification.
In 2024, the following percentages of national populations regularly attending church.
Portugal: 19% (Catholic News Agency)
Austria: 14% (Catholic News Agency)
Spain: 13.4% (Wikipedia)
Italy: 20% (Catholic News Agency)
Germany: 9% (Catholic News Agency)
Netherlands: 7% (Catholic News Agency)
Switzerland: 5% (Wikipedia) (BFS Administrations Website)
France: 5% (Catholic News Agency)
Belgium: 5% (Catholic News Agency)
United Kingdom: 5% (Catholic News Agency)
Canada: 5% (CareyNieuwhof.com)
United States: 24% (weekly attendance) (ChurchTrac) (PRRI)
Norway: 3% (Catholic News Agency)
Sweden: 3% (Catholic News Agency)
Denmark: 3% (Catholic News Agency)
I was technically baptized Catholic, specifically because it was believed that I’d have greater access to educational opportunities, and not out of any genuine piety. I was given a choice at 3 years old to go to my first communion or watch Power Rangers. I’ve never read the Bible, save for two versions of half the book of Romans before putting it down, incredibly unimpressed with Paul failing to sell me on Christianity. My family has been irreligious for four generations. My province of origin, Quebec, is the most secular part of North America, and I’m proud of it. I don’t believe we can sever the influence of Christianity completely, and I don’t think we should. It is an integral part of our heritage, and we need to respect it. You can’t claim to honour your ancestors, or even western history without honouring Christianity. I do however believe that secularism gave the West an opportunity for a clean enough slate to find the definitive, ongoing unraveling of Truth. I chose hero worship. No honest person would say this makes them a Christian.
The purpose of bringing up these statistics is to perform a reality check. Christians are not the majority. Not in the general population, and not in the Dissident Right. Christians do not have a monopoly on morality. Christians do not have a monopoly on Truth. Christians completely lack the social capital and popular consensus to instigate the social policies they want in accordance with their faith on a civilizational scale. I believe that part of the issue is that the discourse is civilization-wide, but most of the Christianity is coming from North America, specifically the United States of America, where it represents a small and dwindling political faction of a broader conservative movement. There is not going to be a Fifth Great Awakening — their latest awakening as Greene himself would admit, is Wokism. A deistic Christian heresy. The public is not going to kneel, convert to disparate, squabbling denominations of Christianity marching in lockstep with Regimevangelicalism.
Blue Checkmark Christianity™️ has recently signaled a green light to the millions of Global South Catholic faithful that it’s okay to illegally migrate to and trespass in Europe. The Hierophant has ordered His faithful to abide.
The fact of the matter is that Dissident Christians are a minority of a minority — they’re the equivalent of Sikhs in India. One percent of the population, and yet one loud, obnoxious voice giving all the impression they’re a bigger majority than they are. Christians like Misanthrope are as barely relevant as the degenerate neopagans and their profligate made up religions with zero legitimacy or antiquity. Hiding their views from their pastors, priests and the rest who attend their churches. It is an absolute LARP to speak with the audacity and arrogance that they do to the great secular majority, and or other groups who are attempting to cultivate faith with sincerity. You’d think if their truth was so self-evident, they’d be winning a whole lot more people, and the West would be Christian, but no. They’re going out the same way Zoroastrianism did, and after that, Hellenism, the state religion of the Roman Empire. Weak men, wicked priests, irreligiosity, bureaucratization of the liturgy, heretical reinterpretation of the word. I could go on.
Finally, Addressing The Misanthrope
In this reviewing of Greene’s article Misanthrope gloats like a fat man stealing a second plate of food from his family at the dinner table.
Before long, neo-paganism is skinned, vivisected, pickled, and labeled. And this is good, the whole rhetorical framework needs to be asphyxiated and put back on the shelf of history where it belongs. I cannot match Greene's energy, you do yourself no favors by not reading the essay, but in the great tradition of a member of the mob kicking the corpse of the guy the ringleader just bodied, I would like to sprinkle some salt on the cadaver.
He relishes in what he believes is the destruction of “neo-paganism” (a term that is mysteriously never defined, conveniently everything that is not Christian, which we’ll see later).
Paganism, the real thing at the societal layer, is dead and gone. Neo-paganism for commoners, proles, and normals is an embarrassing phase all nationalists with European heritage have to go through. One reads the old books, catches a glimpse of these brutal men, their lusty ladies, and the simple life they lived, and the desire to imitate is ignited. But this image is a warped rendition of the tortured recollection from a biased and deceitful set of sources. All we know of paganism comes from the societies that destroyed it.
What compelled this man to hate Classical Antiquity so much? Reading Marcus Aurelius’s "Meditations" is embarrassing? The Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid, three absolutely foundational texts in the Western canon, are pulled from biased and deceitful sets of sources? Golly gee, I didn’t know the firsthand, unedited, unmodified texts of the pagan Greco-Romans brought over by closet Hellenists of the collapsing Byzantine Empire to Italy were biased. If they were biased, I’d wager they’re biased in favour of Christianity, since all the Christians did in Greece’s Neoplatonist academies was stir shit up and attempt to Christsplain how Henosis was actually Theosis. Throw the whole baby out with the bathwater then. Forget Plato’s Timaeus, the Orphic Hymns (2,200-year-old prayers), the Chaldean Oracles, or Hesiod’s Theogony. I guess this is all dogshit.
Absolutely none of these are simply modified fragments of a successor people who destroyed them, and I believe this is what Christians fear the most. They fear Hellenism and the rediscovery of the Classics because it was the only serious competitor to Christianity in Europe. It was a force of civilization and order (which they’d inherit), sublimating the more primitive, visceral, and warlike northerly pagan cultures and synthesizing them, without the attachment and baggage to Christ, the Hebrews, or Israel. Misanthrope is presumably not referring to Hellenism, because he either doesn’t know or has a series of interlocking copes and mental gymnastics to explain how the best of the Roman Empire “wasn’t actually pagan.” Hellenism was the largest religion in the Western world prior to Christianity. A state religion with a liturgy and civic life. Neopagans of made-up religions like Wicca or Thelema can’t compare to that. Nor can the Asatru practitioners in Europe and the United States. The Christians possessed no metaphysical framework before they claimed Neoplatonism, but also believe that the Platonists were actually atheists and not really pagans, but simultaneously proto-Christians who “discovered glimmers of light before Christ.” Their main cope is that the (Hellenized) Jews came up with everything they believe ACTUALLY. Enough pure knowledge of Hellenism, its traditions, sacred texts, prayers, and praxis has been preserved, if only to be pilfered and appropriated.
Echoes of real paganism persist, and they do so like black mold hiding in the recesses of your home, waiting to get you sick and reduce your wealth. The managerial elite of the United States has a rotten core of practicing paganism at its very heart. They don't flaunt it, but they also don't allow access without it. The Comet Ping Pong Nightmare2 is a glimpse of it. The secretive retreats, the dress-up play at the LHC facility, the tunnel opening ceremony; these are all signals between elites of what it takes to participate, to belong3.
Let’s talk about black mold “hiding” in the recesses of our homes, shall we?
The title of the Pope in Rome today is Pontifex Maximus. “Pontifex Maximus” was originally the title of the chief high priest of the College of Pontiffs in ancient Rome, not specifically the Emperor, though several Emperors did hold the title. This title indicated both religious and secular authority within the Republic and the Empire, responsible for overseeing sacred rites to Jupiter/Zeus at the Temple on Capitoline Hill. The College of Pontiffs was established around 300 BCE, an organization of high priests overseeing public religious services. Sound familiar? That’s because the College of Cardinals directly descends from it.
The Protestants might be happy to hear Misanthrope claim this would make you sick, because they’d correctly state that absolutely none of this is in the Bible. The entire liturgical structure of the Catholic Church is pagan, an inherited but corrupted structure from classical antiquity. Thus, a great majority of historic Christianity is syncretic. You might even say haphazardly pagan. The very idea of a high priest who would oversee the spiritual and religious duties is copped by the Pope's role in Catholicism. The vestments worn by Catholic clergy, the use of incense (especially frankincense, the main herb used by invocations in Hellenism), chants, the sanctification of holy spaces, and the very architecture of Catholic cathedrals are derived from religious practices of pagan Rome. Let’s not get into art. The processions, the veneration of saints (akin to the Roman household gods or Lares), ancestor worship (which Catholics pretend they don’t do), and the hierarchical structure all reflect a continuity from Rome’s Hellenic pagan past. The Catholic Church’s liturgy, with its detailed rituals and sacraments is a direct continuation of the Greco-Roman pagan way of embedding religious practice into every aspect of public and private life. The transformation of its pantheon of gods into a multitude of saints, each with specific roles and domains is indistinguishable from how they interacted with their deities.
How are you jumping from the organized, orderly, and virtue-based state religions of classical antiquity, of Europeans’ own ancestors (or their neighbours), to 21st-century fake Moloch worship by debauched, bored elites? I say fake because these people aren’t religious. They don’t believe in this. They believe in desecrating Christian symbols and iconography because they know it brings Christians to their knees. They go to retreats once or twice a year, do a bunch of drugs, engage in orgiastic, edgy and disgusting activity. You could argue that maybe they embody these metaphorical manifestations of evil through their actions (in a similar way to how the phrase ‘trans is sacred’ became part of the left’s pseudo-religiosity), but this isn’t “paganism.” At the bare minimum, it's not the same paganism, which has mysteriously jumped from the indigenous Gods and practices of fellow right-wing Westerners and ancestors, presumably including Misanthrope's, to symbolic worship of Carthaginian child-killing Gods (who were ironically, brutally wiped out by pagan Romans).
He continues:
Though at first it may seem that the two preceding paragraphs contradict each other, they do not. The paganism practiced by Obama and Beyonce4 is stripped of its minutia, it's social structure, and all that's left is a hyper-concentrated set of practices purpose built to engender cohesion in a fractious group unable to not betray, not steal, and not deceive. These practices generate heinous material for blackmail, which is a tool for enforcing compliance, but they also serve as a Mark of Cain by which the tainted can recognize each other. What starts as paying the piper to play the game transitions into a voracious appetite for blood sacrifice, sodomy, and despoiling innocents5.
Pardon my language (this is Substack after all).
Misanthrope’s two preceding paragraphs do, in fact, contradict each other, and I can’t believe this needs to be said, but European pagans did, in fact, practise virtue ethics and did have morals that involved not killing your neighbour for his stuff and taking his wife or daughter. I don’t know where Dissident Christians pull this insanity from, but I’ve been in our “space” for 15 years. There is a shocking, profoundly disturbing number of Christians who are devout and pious and know nothing about classical antiquity, or the basics of Indo-European anthropology.
I get flashbacks to the mid-2010s meme pages on right-wing Facebook, where 17-year-old boys, (“traditionalist Catholics” no less), made nonsensical claims that “pagans didn’t invent anything but a few longboats.” It seems as though these Christians are genuinely terrified of their own past. They’re leery of the Indo-European pagan stuff and have a noticeable aversion to exploring the spiritual realities of their ancestors while accusing pagans of disrespecting their own Christian ancestors. It’s very strange. So much of this in our spaces is common knowledge for even a great many Christians, but their terror is obvious. You can say “Hey, check out this video on the God-Kings of Neolithic Ireland it’s kind of neat” You can see them visibly squirm and laugh nervously for no reason. As if it’s an affront to their existence.
In no particular order, here are various European pagans advocating against betrayal, theft, and deception:
Hesiod, "Works and Days"
"But whoever deliberately with his false oath swears a perjury and stumbles on a curse of the gods, that man’s family will be brought to ruin."
Plato, "Republic"
"It is never just to harm anyone."
Cicero, "On Duties" (De Officiis)
"No one can be brave who considers pain the greatest evil, nor temperate, who regards pleasure as the highest good."
Homer, "The Iliad"
"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."
Hávamál, Stanza 42
"To his friend a man should be a friend, and gifts with gifts requite. But men should mock their mockers and cheat the cheaters."
Mabinogion, Culhwch ac Olwen
"Let no one be deceived, for that is not the way of honour."
This is basic stuff. Come on now. There should be no excuses from this corner of the internet to pretend that things such as “thou shall not kill” or “thou shall not covet your neighbour's wife” are exclusive to Christianity. Even so, on that last one, medieval Christian societies gruesomely still practised infanticide of unsalvageably sick babies that couldn’t be materially provided for by destitutely poor peasants. Bride napping is an ancient tradition common in Christian Europe. Christianity doesn’t have dibs on good morals.
The Paterfamilias:
The paterfamilias was the head of a Roman family or household in ancient Rome, holding almost absolute authority over his household. This authority, known as "patria potestas" or paternal power, encompassed not only his immediate family—his wife, children, and unmarried daughters—but also slaves and sometimes freedmen living under his roof. The paterfamilias had the legal right to make decisions for the entire household, including matters of property, marriage, and punishment. In earlier times, his authority extended to life and death, meaning he could expose infants (a practice where unwanted newborns were abandoned) or even execute members of his household under certain circumstances.
Financial control was another critical aspect of the paterfamilias' role. He managed all the family's wealth and property, handling the finances, estates, and any business ventures. This responsibility ensured the economic stability and prosperity of the household. In addition to his financial duties, the paterfamilias also acted as the household priest, conducting family rituals and ceremonies to honour the household gods (Lares and Penates) and ensuring the family's adherence to religious practices.
These religious duties were vital in maintaining the spiritual well-being and continuity of family traditions. Upon the death of the paterfamilias, his authority and responsibilities typically passed to his eldest son or nearest male relative, ensuring the continuity of the household and its traditions. The paterfamilias played a crucial role in maintaining the family's honour and social standing, upholding moral and ethical standards, setting an example for his family, and managing relationships with other families and clients in the patron-client system. This concept of the paterfamilias illustrates the patriarchal nature of Roman society, where family and social structures were deeply intertwined with legal and religious obligations.
Yet again, we can see another traditionalist institution in the:
Mos Maiorum:
The Mos Maiorum, or "custom of the ancestors," was a fundamental set of traditional values and social norms that guided Roman life. It represented the unwritten code of conduct inherited from the ancestors, emphasizing virtues such as duty, loyalty, discipline, and respect for authority. The mos maiorum was integral to maintaining the stability and continuity of Roman society, serving as a moral compass for both public and private life.
At its core, the mos maiorum encompassed a range of virtues. Pietas (piety) was one of the key virtues, emphasizing duty towards the gods, the state, and one's family. Fides (faithfulness) and gravitas (seriousness) underscored the importance of integrity, reliability, and dignity. The mos maiorum also stressed auctoritas (authority) and dignitas (dignity), reflecting the social hierarchy and the respect accorded to those in positions of power and influence. These values were taught from a young age and were expected to be upheld throughout one's life. The mos maiorum had a profound influence on Roman politics, law, and family life. It shaped the conduct of public officials and the operation of the government, promoting a sense of duty and responsibility towards the Republic. In the legal sphere, it reinforced the principles of justice and equity, ensuring that the laws reflected the traditional values of the community. Within the family, the mos maiorum guided relationships and responsibilities, with the paterfamilias embodying these values and passing them down to future generations. This adherence to tradition and ancestral customs was seen as vital to the preservation of Roman identity and societal cohesion.
What about the Vestalis, or “Vestal Virgins” of Hellenism, the Roman state religion?
The Vestal Virgins were a prestigious group of priestesses in ancient Rome dedicated to the goddess Vesta, the deity of the hearth, home, and family. Selected from young girls of patrician families between the ages of six and ten, they took a vow of chastity and committed to serving for 30 years. Their service was divided into three stages: ten years of training, ten years of active duty, and ten years of teaching the novices. After completing their term, they were allowed to marry, although many chose to remain single due to their esteemed status. The primary duty of the Vestal Virgins was to maintain the sacred fire of Vesta within the Temple of Vesta. This fire was believed to be vital for the protection and prosperity of Rome. They also performed various rituals and ceremonies, including preparing sacred substances for other religious rites and participating in the Vestalia festival, which honoured Vesta and allowed Roman matrons to offer sacrifices at the temple. Their role was crucial in ensuring the spiritual well-being of the city. The Vestal Virgins enjoyed unique privileges in Roman society.
They had the right to own property, make a will, and vote. They were granted special seats at public games and events and were treated with great respect. However, their responsibilities came with strict consequences. If a Vestal Virgin allowed the sacred fire to go out or broke her vow of chastity, she faced severe penalties, including being buried alive as a form of execution. Vestal Virgins were central to the religious and social fabric of Rome. Their purity and dedication symbolized the sanctity of the home and family, reflecting the values foundational to Roman society. By maintaining the sacred fire and performing essential rituals, they reinforced the community’s connection to the divine and the continuity of tradition, highlighting their importance in the stability and spiritual health of ancient Rome.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but does any of this seem like a religion of child-sacrificing mass murderers, bride thieves, and psychotic indiscriminate killers? A bloodthirsty, degenerate faith? Or does this seem like a civilized, imperial public religion with a clear emphasis on piety, virtue, and moral good?
Misanthrope goes on to incoherently rant about Comet Pizza, the Balenciaga scandal, and America’s Ashkenazi elite engaging in bizarre occult rituals. None of it is worth reiterating. In fact, most of this isn’t coherent, but he does end with this:
Paganism always, always, ALWAYS leads to the adoption of human sacrifice as a core tenet of faith. This happens everywhere paganism infects a culture. We know them by their fruit, and it is rotten & poisonous. No amount of sexy redheads, tribal tattoos, or cool axes will change the nature of daemon worshipers. These types cannot be tolerated or even ignored. They are a mind virus, a sickness like rabies11 that must be treated with extreme prejudice and caution.
Paganism always leads to ritual human sacrifice? Damn that’s crazy dude.
In as early as 97 BCE. Human sacrifice was formally outlawed by a decree of the Roman Senate. Despite earlier sporadic practices, this decree marked a significant shift in Roman religious practices, aligning with the growing influence of Hellenistic values. In the classical period (5th-4th centuries BCE), human sacrifice was largely abandoned and condemned by many Greek city-states. Philosophers like Plato and writers such as Euripides criticized it, reflecting a broader societal shift and reformation towards more humane religious rites. The Roman philosopher and statesman Seneca the Younger criticized human sacrifice in his moral writings and tragedies. In his tragedy "Medea", he portrays the horror and moral repulsion of human sacrifice. Cicero, in his work "De Divinatione" (On Divination), spoke against the practice of human sacrifice, aligning it with superstitions that he deemed irrational and barbaric.
Ovid, the Roman poet, spoke against human sacrifice in his work "Fasti," a poetic calendar of Roman religious festivals. In Book 1, lines 335-336 he expressed his abhorrence for the practice:
Far hence be the ancient rites, be those savage times! Better is the age that knows not how to shed human blood. Far hence be the blood of the knife: let it be enough to offer the little spelt cake and the crackling salt.
Ovid is clearly advocating for a more humane form of worship where simple offerings like spelt cakes and salt suffice instead of the more primitive practices of blood sacrifices involving animals, which Jews and Muslims technically do today with kosher and halal. Human sacrifice was outlawed long before Ovid’s time. All of this occurred without Christianity. All of this moral good was latent in European pagans, centuries before Christ’s birth. If the high culture and great civilization of the Greco-Roman world wasn’t self-evident enough, this is the foundation of Western Civilization. We were not primitive savages.
Spiritual Leftism
Perhaps Dissident Christians don’t know any of this. Perhaps they’re genuinely ignorant, provincial fanatics. The root of the corrupted branch that spiteful mutant freaks are derived from. I’m going to call this out for what it is. Everything I’ve written above can be verified on your own personal time. It is easily verifiable information. Anyone in our space should know about these basics.
This is spiritual leftism. This archetype are those who seek to destroy the natural, noble, and beautiful. The arch-enemy of the Vitalists, wearing a Christian mask. This very same impulse and these characteristics are used by leftists to disparage and delegitimize Westerners’ right to exist by invoking slavery or colonialism, the Holocaust, or any other unnamed injustice with a complete ignorance of their own history, rejection of the self, and a pretentious self-assuredness not backed by truth. It was this impulse that slew the great beauty and Hellenic priestess Hypatia, who was killed by a mob of spiteful mutant proto-Bolsheviks. It is this strain of individual that led to the mass destruction of art, science, and high culture of classical antiquity.
Nothing good can come out of tolerating these freaks.
These passive-aggressive bozos are descendants of the peasants. Their low agency compels them to follow whomever wins. They believe Yahweh to be the strongest and are terrified of retribution for stepping out of line. Poor guys.
A lot of Christians and non-Christians believe in our old beliefs, deep down: you can see this at funerals where people comfort one another, saying that this is not the end, and that we shall meet again in the afterlife. People believe as the feel, despite the writings in the books. The emotional brain centres don’t understand the words.
If your point is that a lot of contemporary Christians, particularly in North America, and especially those that tend to make a lot of noise online, seem to have zero appreciation for the Classical Era, you're not going to get any argument from me. That's just self-evidently the case. And, speaking now as a Christian, let me tell you, it's at least as frustrating for me as it apparently is for you.
You are also correct in your observation that an awful lot of Christian commentary is, well, Boomers Boomering. I hate it.
I'd like to bring three things to your attention though.
First, I think you may be overstating the "moral good. . . latent in European pagans, centuries before Christ's birth." Or, perhaps, using the most exemplary heights of pagan moral philosophy and aspirations to paint a far rosier picture of pre-Christian Europe than is appropriate.
Are you aware of the practice of "exposure"? Simply leave an unwanted infant on the side of the road to die. It was widespread in the Roman Empire. I am given to understand that modern archaeologists can identify a Roman brothel by the large pile of babies' bones generally found nearby. Yes, the Stoics disapproved. . . but that doesn't really seem to have done anything to reduce the practice. Early Christians gained some of their reputation for compassion by taking in these infants. The practice doesn't really seem to have meaningfully diminished until the fourth century, by which time Christianity was ascendent. The contemporary practice of abortion is eerily similar. Christians tend to be opposed to abortion just like we were opposed to exposure.
Blood-sport was something else that was common in the Classical period. Gladitorial combat. Men killing each other for entertainment. There are arguably a variety of reasons the practice died out, but the influence of Christianity was certainly among them. The practice went into severe decline starting in the third century and seems to have practically disappeared by the sixth.
I'm not trying to diminish the accomplishments of pre-Christian philosophers. But I don't think you can rely solely on their philosophizing to get an accurate picture about the overall moral state of pre-Christian Europe. There was an awful lot of nastiness there, much of which got better as Christianity spread. I'm not saying that everything was rainbows and unicorn farts afterward. It wasn't. Obviously. But it certainly wasn't that way before, either. If anything, a lot of people at the time seemed to think that Christianity was a tangible improvement.
For what it's worth, I think that's probably more of what Misthanthrope was getting at when he talks about "human sacrifice". Or, at least, that's what he should have been getting at. Yes, the practice of liturgical human sacrifice wasn't as widespread as Misthanthrope seems to make out, and yes, Christianity wasn't the only reason the practice died out. But more broadly speaking, the notion that human lives are something that can be spent, at will, for selfish reasons? Granted, the practice of that probably never really went anywhere, but with the ascendency of Christianity, Western culture at least started to feel embarassed about that.
Second, I think you underestimate--though understandably so, given the degenerate condition of our present circumstances--the degree to which the Christian tradition has had a deep and long-standing appreciation for the admirable and worthy features of the Classical period. Augustine (AD 5th cent.) did a lot of work synthesizing Christianity with the Platonic and Neoplatonic traditions. Aquinas (13th cent.) did the same with Aristotle. The Renaissance was, to oversimplify, what happened when Western European Christians were suddenly given access to Classical written sources salvaged from the Turks' conquest of Constantinople in AD 1453.
Third, it seems to me that what you're mostly complaining about here is less your targets' Christianity and more their modernity. The same chronologically snobbery infects them as infects the left. Indeed, the same procedural managerialism that has corrupted most of our society's institutions has also corrupted the church. There is an awful lot of dead weight there, believe you me. Regimevangelicals have absolutely got to go. They're part of the problem, not part of the solution.