Quotes by John Davidson

“The lionization of abortion, the rise of transgenderism, the normalization of euthanasia, the destruction of the family, the sexualization of children and mainstreaming of pedophilia, and the emergence of a materialist supernaturalism as a substitute for traditional religion are all happening right now as a result of Christianity’s decline.””

“it will be no less pagan for all that. It will be defined, as it always was, by the belief that nothing is true, everything is permitted. And that belief will produce, as it always has, a world defined almost entirely by power: the strong subjugating or discarding the weak, and the weak doing what they must to survive. That’s why nearly all pagan civilizations, especially the most “advanced” ones, were slave empires. The more advanced they were, the more brutal and violent they became””

“This new society”

“What you believe won’t really matter to the state; what will matter is whether you adhere to the public morality”

“The classical liberal order, so long protected and preserved by the Christian civilization from which it sprang, is already being systematically destroyed and replaced with something new.””

“Abraham Lincoln would ultimately anchor his arguments against slavery on the truth that all men are created equal, that no man has the right to enslave another”

“This recognition would be manifested in public pronouncements, official documents, proceedings, monuments, and even in the laws of the land. Under such circumstances, there was little doubt among most Americans that objective moral truth was real and could be known through reason, and this too was reflected in law and public policy.””

“The Founders themselves were rather explicit about the need for the maintenance and propagation of religion and morality for the survival of the republic. They believed, rightly, that self-government would be impossible with an irreligious people, and therefore made provisions for the public support of Christianity right from the beginning.””

“Western democracies held no positive principles aside from liberalism and tolerance. The result was a negative culture, lacking substance, that would eventually dissolve and be replaced by a pagan culture that espoused materialism, secularism, and moral relativism as positive principles. These principles would be enforced as a public or state morality, and those who dissented from them would be punished. Paganism, as Eliot saw it and as this book argues, imposes a moral relativism in which power alone determines right.””

“but we conceal from ourselves the unpleasant knowledge of the real values by which we live.”2 Those values, Eliot argued, did not belong to Christianity but to “modern paganism,””

“T. S. Eliot made this point in a series of lectures he gave at Cambridge University in 1939 that would later be published as The Idea of a Christian Society. Eliot wrote, “[T]he choice before us is the creation of a new Christian culture, and the acceptance of a pagan one.””

“Some say it is impossible to return to the past; but the truth is that there is now nothing before us but the choice between two paths which both return to the past. We can return to some sort of Catholic fellowship, or we can return to some sort of pagan slavery. There is no third road.” G. K. Chesterton””

“The immigration debate in America today is not really about immigration. Nor is it about national security, the economy or the vagaries of our outdated asylum system. Like much else in our civic life, the immigration debate is mostly a proxy for domestic policies and the culture wars. It just happens to a particularly potent proxy because it tends to elicit strong feelings about the American dream, ethnic identity, class and nationhood. That is to say, immigration is an issue that’s ripe for exploitation and cooption by both the Left and the Right. Each side can easily condemn the other without ever getting down to debating actual US policy on its merits. This is one reason why we still have an immigration system that dates from 1965. Book Review: “They’re not sending their best.” Claremont Review of Books, volume 20, no.3 (summer, 2020). P.45””