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Youth for Western Civilization Tells Us the Real Meaning of the Death of Jesus

Posted April 2, 2010 by Patrick Young, Esq.

The self-proclaimed “right wing youth movement,” Youth for Western Civilization, has published an essay on its web site purporting to tell us the “real” meaning of Good Friday.

[T]oday is the most important day in all of Christendom. It is Good Friday, the day of commemoration of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, God come in the flesh of a mere man to atone for the sins of the elect. Today will be a day marked by the most solemn of all church services throughout the Christian year. As a Christian, this day of commemoration gives me great pause to contemplate both the level of my sin and the level of the gracious mercy and love of God to redeem mankind from sin. But as well Good Friday speaks to the entire Western world, as it does to individuals. As an individual, a believer approaches the Cross of Calvary by reflecting on what he has done wrong to transgress God and receive not mercy, but judgment. He then comes to realize that he is totally depraved in terms of his behavior and lifestyle and must repent.

Something tells me the author was one of “Young Eagles’ at the RNC bondage club excursion.

But what does Good Friday mean for the West? For the West it means that the West has to come to terms with the crimes that it has committed not against others, those since have already been paid for. Rather it has to come to the sins which it has committed against itself.

Firstly the slaughter of innocent children via abortion and calling it a right. Westerners who are aware of the declining birthrate of Europeans are rightly aware of the lack of pro-creation amongst Europeans. But what about the abortion toll? The Jihadists kill other people, but the West has adopted the most suicidal position possible, the slaughter of its children who are its future. The West cannot move forward until it confesses its most grievous of trespasses and changes direction back to honoring the gift of life.

The West also needs to repent of its abandonment of honoring her ancestors. Soldiers who fought on the fields of Trafalgar, San Jacinto, Hattin, Kursk, Thermopile, Tours or Vienna? Millions of men, dating back to the pre-Christian era, have laid down their lives for the honor and survival of their nations, of their families and many, if not most, for the continued evangelizing of the Gospel.

I’m not sure how many “Men of the West” laid down their lives for the “evangelizing of the Gospel” in pre-Christian times. The fact that they were able to do so indicates the superiority of the Western Man over all other, since it would seem to involve at least a bit of time travel. Less inspiring is the choice of “ancestors” we Western Men are supposed to honor for the sake of Our Lord Jesus. First there are those who fell at San Jacinto. Now that was a battle between Mexicans and Texans. The Mexicans were Catholics and the Texans were largely Protestants. So this was basically Christian on Christian violence, hardly the sort of thing Jesus would want to trumpet. Ditto with Trafalgar which pitted Britain against Spain and France, three of the most Western countries available.

Even worse is the call to honor the “heroes” of the Battle of Kursk. The “Western” side in that 1943 battle in the Soviet Union was the German Army under the command of Adolf Hitler! The author of the piece is himself a German student so he no doubt knew that this was essentially a lionization of Nazism.

Far from trying to defend the West, the Nazis had embarked on an invasion of Russia designed to enslave the Slavic peoples and exterminate the Jews.

The Fifth Commandment that the LORD gives us is to honor thy mother and father. This is an obligation one owes to God and one that a person owes to his parents. But traditionally this has been understood beyond the parents to include grandparents and all ancestors.

Not sure that the LORD really likes his name in ALL CAPS, but, while I sincerely loved my grandma and grandpas, I never heard in Catholic school that I had to honor all my “ancestors”. Do I have to don animal skis on Caveman Day to pay homage to Ur Patrick?

Lastly is the perversion of society.

This is always my favorite part. These guys always say they love the West and then they insist it is rotten and perverse.

Whether it is the perversion of marriage from the traditional form God intended it to be, which is interestingly enough the standard for all major world religions and societies

If all societies have a common form of marriage, then why does the author need to say that God intended this form? If it is really universal in both Western and non-Western countries, then there is nothing particularly Western about heterosexual marriage.

In fact, since so-called gay marriage originated in the West, perhaps same sex marriage can be more properly called a true Western idea than heterosexual marriage.

In addition, any perusal of anthropological texts on the subject reveals that marriage around the world varies significantly from country to country, religion to religion, and even varies within a culture over time. Many cultures, including that of the Fathers of the Judeo-Christian tradition, have allowed for polygamy. Others permit marriage to only one spouse which terminates only upon death. Protestantism generally allows for serial monogamy, something which Catholicism finds abhorrent. Some cultures demand female virginity at the time of marriage, while we in America scorn such ideas.

Mormonism, a product of American culture, at one time allowed for plural marriage, and now forbids it.

But we know that the author does not really mean that there is a unitary idea of marriage. He means he does not like gays, and accordingly neither does Jesus.

Next the author bemoans:

the loss of the work ethic in society and the shift to slothfulness and gluttony as found in our grossly obscene welfare state.

I’m guessing you’ll find more gluttony at the country club dining room than at the welfare office.

The author continues by attacking The West yet again:

not only is the West in “trouble,” but in fact it has cancer. A cancer that can be cured with genuine repentance, but it will require a rediscovery of the orthodox faith of our fathers and an adherence to the traditions of our ancestors.

I’m not sure if this is a call for the author’s fellow evangelicals to return to Catholicism, or if he wants a conversion to Orthodox Christianity. Perhaps he can write in a comment clarifying.

Right-wingers can campaign and crusade against the Left all they want. But the desired change that the conservative Right wants to see will not occur, until we as the members of the Right, begin to live out the virtue that we want to see. The Left is well known for their glorification of decadence and perversion,

Yup, its in all the Democratic fund raising letters I get.

but we as the Right represent that which is true, honorable, just and pure.

Why does that bondage club keep popping into my mind.

In my view, that cannot be done without religion and recognition of an established, Universal Truth, which is the God of the Bible. Because if one is to reject the Universal Truth, I believe what remains is intellectual despair and materialistic anarchy, which is the foundation of the atheistic Left.

So you can only be a true conservative if you are a Christian.

If we are going to appeal to the Centrists and Leftists, the Right must just not talk about how we are correct, but rather we must show them our genuine fidelity to honor, tradition, family, nobility, chivalry and God.

Listen up conservatives, no more diddling the Congressional pages, trysting with Louisiana prostitutes, “hiking the Appalachian Trail,” looking for love in airport restrooms, or cavorting with simulated lesbian bondage mistresses.

If the Right can figure out how to control its randy sexuality, amazing things will come:

Then if we can live out the life that Christ on the Cross atoned for us can the Right recapture Europe and America for the forces of justice over the forces of the Revolution.

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