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...thesis, though it is not unique, will seem uniquely clean-cut. It is serenely distinct from cliches of wartime propaganda. Chesterton points out that, if Europe's politicians had understood the real issues at stake, they would never have weakened Christian Germany (Austria) after the War, nor allowed pagan Prussia again to become strong. He foresaw that Naziism and Bolshevism would get together. "If or when the New Germany moves one inch towards infringing on the present ancient frontiers of the Polish realm-then I shall know that I was right...
...Megiddos consider other people's Christmas a pagan festival, derived from the Roman Saturnalia, list 30 reasons why they are right. Sample reason: shepherds do not watch their flocks by night in Palestine's December. Other Megiddo beliefs: the planets are all inhabited by men in different stages of religious development; at the Resurrection nonbelievers will continue in the dreamless sleep called death. Rochester's 160 Megiddos are quiet, thrifty folk. None is on relief. They shun movies, jewelry, tobacco, tea, coffee, liquor. Megiddo women wear full-skirted gowns, Victorian bonnets...
...solid core of astute truth, and contained a clue to Wilde's ripe mixture of estheticism and grossness, charm and repulsiveness, sincerity and exhibitionism. His genius consisted in living, in the most hostile environment possible-Victoria's industrial England-as though he were a pagan Greek, "noble and nude and antique." With his trial, imprisonment and shabby ending, Biographer Winwar has no difficulty tracing Wilde's life as a modern Greek tragedy-if an extraordinarily counterfeit...
...Germany he fell in with a young politician on the make, Adolf Hitler by name, and began to supply him with most of the ideas that later became Nazi gospel. He advocated a return to the pagan worship of Thor and Wotan. He wrote a long volume of gibberish called Mythology in the 20th Century, which few Nazis could decipher and fewer non-Nazis wanted to. As the editor of the Nazi newsorgan Völkischer Beobachter he predicted that when Hitler came to power "Jewish bodies will hang from every telegraph pole between Munich and Berlin." Above...
...society, the contrasts with other societies by which we-of the 'Western Democracies'-eulogize it, only operate to deceive and stupefy us." His argument: that the choice before the next several generations is "between the formation of a new Christian culture, and the acceptance of a pagan one." Eliot's idea of a Christian culture is not as unrealistic as his High Anglican tone may make it seem; nor as simple as revivalist Christians might think...