Point of fact: no educated racial-nationalist today (that I know of) holds to the old scientific racialism of the Madison Grant sort. Their ideals have grown along with the complexities of popular evolutionary myths.

So, your association of this blog with Tolkien’s “pernicious and unscientific race-doctrines” is what we educated Europeans call a: “straw-man caricature.”

The heart of S/W/B and the heart of Tolkien are closely aligned.

Your ilk, on the other-hand, (if I’m in right in suspecting you to be an outraged modernist) are closer to the men of the South who betrayed their oaths to Gondor.

The great white races owe their success to the perfection of their nervous system — a nervous system which, although very delicate and excitable, can, however, be disciplined.

Quoted from a quote. Carrel. Man the Unknown.

Someone recently recommended that article, and so it was fresh in my mind.

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So we don’t want to become too hardy if our delicate nature is our strength (inclining us towards discipline perhaps).

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But yea, we’ve grown soft. We need to become aware of the ever present dangers of this world to our people, and to our souls – though Jewish paranoia isn’t quite what I mean :p

As for our salvation not being dependent on the flesh, circumcision came to mind. As is also true of baptism, circumcision signifies being born into the covenant, not attaining to it by any human means. As Rushdoony taught, it also signifies that the parents “cut off” all hope that natural generation can save the child. He is to be saved by regeneration, an act of God.

Calvin’s heading: “Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.” That sounds like a prerequisite, but he then writes, “as these are connected together by many ties, it is not easy to determine which of the two precedes and gives birth to the other.”

Calvin focuses mainly on the knowledge of self in its negative aspect, that “we cannot aspire to Him in earnest until we have begun to be displeased with ourselves.” This is certainly true, but it seems that more could be said about how the gift of faith resonates with our natural affections. In other words, those who are entirely given over to depravity, such as Aztecs who sacrifice their own children, are unlikely to ever trust in Christ because they are even more depraved than animals. Then you have the Japanese, who do possess natural affections (reverence for ancestors and posterity) but do not believe. Then you have the ancient Hebrews, who possessed both the covenant and natural affections, and still fell away. “He came to His own and His own did not receive Him.” So it’s understandable that Calvin would focus on the fact that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God.”