The Walthers greatest contribution to Western Civilization was the PPK. Should've quit while they were ahead. Mathew's straw man argument would've been hooted out of my high school religion class
It is good to see Emma Freire interviewing Steve Sailer. I almost thought she had gone into hibernation. She's a fine writer but I believe she's also a mother and wife which probably takes up a lot of her time.
Strange how racial universalism somehow became a core tenant of Christianity after WW2. Almost like it's historically contingent and not biblical at all.
“… in a style that purports to be neutral and scientific.”
Steve, you need to stop *purporting* to be neutral and scientific! You should become *truly* neutral and scientific, like all the Lefts’s favorite scientists, leaders, and especially journalists!
Not sure how the flattering illustration of Steve helps make their case that he's part of a New Pagan movement. The opposite of sack cloth and ashes? Why are the pagans so well groomed, especially if all they care about is IQ? Anyhoo, if I were Sailer, I'd license that illustration for my next paperback cover. Fabio of the new-pagans!
I suppose there is validity to what she writes, but isn't the same true of the left? Hasn't the left turned woke and woke adjacent into their main religion? Is not Donald Trump their Great Satan? Is not transgenderism their rebirth and redemption?
Writing as a lifelong atheist, I've increasingly seen it as a great shame that people largely abandoned organized religion. Turns out, most of y'all are a little too dumb to handle life without it (present company excepted). Seems to me we figured out the formula for Catholics and Protestants and Jews living in proximity without occasionally killing each other, at least in 20th century America.
Also WRT people being able to discuss biodiversity in sports, my brother got drummed out of Washington U in St. Louis back in the 1980s for daring to discuss exactly that.
Further 1280 out of 1280 on a study of humans? If you submitted such a study to the New England Journal of Medicine with such results, e.g. 1280 out of 1280 patients in the treatment group were cured, they'd first assume you faked your data in some way. That's how impossible that result is. It's like how they should have caught Bernie Madoff. Too perfect to be real yet it is.
Don't think I've ever seen Steve engaging in theology aside from his endorsement of the idea that Creator and created is a simpler and more parsimonious explanation for existence than any other.
Agreed. 'Myself' is now way overused, as it's being inserted as a substitute for both 'I' (subjective case) and 'me' (objective case). As an example of the latter, I frequently see constructions such as 'The brewery sent cases of beer to Billy Bob and myself'. 'Me' is absolutely correct in this situation.
My theory: it's a side effect of people not being quite sure when to use 'I' or 'me' as the objects of prepositions, e.g. the infamous 'between you and I'. 'Myself' is neither 'I' nor 'me', so it must be neutral, and hence universally applicable, right?
There's also the traditional thinking that elementary school teachers used to admonish their pupils "Try to avoid using "I" so much, that way you'll come off less a braggart."
Also, traditionally it was always "Billy Bob and I", as "I" was the object of prepositions. But again, it could go back to a subconscious reluctance of using "I" so as to appear less a narcissist. It's the old humble bit, so to speak.
Christians and classical liberals are the last universalists remaining on the right. Everyone else is tribing up. It's actually inaccurate to say all Christians; plenty of them are tribing up as well.
You need to get that illustration blown up and framed and hang it in your living room, Steve.
Christian 'universalists' are taking one of the calling cards of the Church, i.e. its super-national unity (little theological pun intended; Lord have mercy), and immanentizing it down into the worldly, geopolitical sphere.
Paul says 'in Christ there is no Jew or Greek' -- but this is only within the Kingdom, the Church, accomplished through the saving work of Jesus (hence the 'in Christ', and the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit. There is no such promise for the nations of the world.
People like this author act as if the post-ideological Right is a new thing. It's actually been around since 2001 and the disaster of George W Bush's suburban goober conservatism. Roissy, Dalrock, Ramzpaul, ZMan, Dennis Mangan, John Derbyshire, Peter Brimelow, Paul Gottfried, Hans-Herman Hoppe, me, have all been pointing out the failure of liberal idealism/universalism since 9/11/2001. The Alt-Right was fantastic and FUN, until Richard Spencer's clown show in Charlottesville derailed it.
Lots of us coalesced around Ron Paul, who of course got kicked to the curb by the Republican mainstream in favor of the execrable John McCain and the slick, shallow Mitt Romney. It took until 2016 for the Republicans to finally realize they couldn't keep bringing a toy knife to a gunfight. If we're going to have an Empire, we need someone willing to be a Caesar. When it all starts falling apart around 2035, that's when our team will need a Lee Kuan Yew, and a Robert E. Lee.
It's surprising to me after the run of events since 2016 that this genteel First Baptist-Conservatism is still around. But I guess there are still enough idealistic Christian millionaires over 65 who can fund it.
Related: another Christian commentator criticizes Ross Douthat for interviewing Jonathan Keeperman without pressuring Keeperman to denounce Steve Sailer's Voldemortian views.
I guess you are a pagan insofar as you reject the American elite's radical egalitarianism which cloaks itself in a specious understanding of Christianity. Or I guess you could be sacrificing bovine livers to Wotan in your free time who knows
That quote from Walther is one of the more idiotic things I have ever read.
The Walthers greatest contribution to Western Civilization was the PPK. Should've quit while they were ahead. Mathew's straw man argument would've been hooted out of my high school religion class
It struck me as willfully obtuse.
I’m very Catholic, and I have no difficulty reconciling my faith with the idea that there are differences between earth’s extended families.
It is good to see Emma Freire interviewing Steve Sailer. I almost thought she had gone into hibernation. She's a fine writer but I believe she's also a mother and wife which probably takes up a lot of her time.
Regardless, you should commission that artist. You’ve never looked better.
Yep-needs to be framed and hung on the back of the closet door
Renoir would have been proud.
Strange how racial universalism somehow became a core tenant of Christianity after WW2. Almost like it's historically contingent and not biblical at all.
The Book of Genesis seems to me to be highly interested in nature v. nurture, eugenics and dysgenics.
So is the Gospel of Matthew.
“… in a style that purports to be neutral and scientific.”
Steve, you need to stop *purporting* to be neutral and scientific! You should become *truly* neutral and scientific, like all the Lefts’s favorite scientists, leaders, and especially journalists!
Not sure how the flattering illustration of Steve helps make their case that he's part of a New Pagan movement. The opposite of sack cloth and ashes? Why are the pagans so well groomed, especially if all they care about is IQ? Anyhoo, if I were Sailer, I'd license that illustration for my next paperback cover. Fabio of the new-pagans!
I suppose there is validity to what she writes, but isn't the same true of the left? Hasn't the left turned woke and woke adjacent into their main religion? Is not Donald Trump their Great Satan? Is not transgenderism their rebirth and redemption?
Writing as a lifelong atheist, I've increasingly seen it as a great shame that people largely abandoned organized religion. Turns out, most of y'all are a little too dumb to handle life without it (present company excepted). Seems to me we figured out the formula for Catholics and Protestants and Jews living in proximity without occasionally killing each other, at least in 20th century America.
Also WRT people being able to discuss biodiversity in sports, my brother got drummed out of Washington U in St. Louis back in the 1980s for daring to discuss exactly that.
Further 1280 out of 1280 on a study of humans? If you submitted such a study to the New England Journal of Medicine with such results, e.g. 1280 out of 1280 patients in the treatment group were cured, they'd first assume you faked your data in some way. That's how impossible that result is. It's like how they should have caught Bernie Madoff. Too perfect to be real yet it is.
Don't think I've ever seen Steve engaging in theology aside from his endorsement of the idea that Creator and created is a simpler and more parsimonious explanation for existence than any other.
A lot of heavyweights who outclass me intellectually have engaged in theology, pro or con, so I'm pretty humble about engaging in the subject.
Some of it is really difficult, like the problem of evil.
Sorry, but I think myself is wrong here. "I" works just fine.
Agreed. 'Myself' is now way overused, as it's being inserted as a substitute for both 'I' (subjective case) and 'me' (objective case). As an example of the latter, I frequently see constructions such as 'The brewery sent cases of beer to Billy Bob and myself'. 'Me' is absolutely correct in this situation.
My theory: it's a side effect of people not being quite sure when to use 'I' or 'me' as the objects of prepositions, e.g. the infamous 'between you and I'. 'Myself' is neither 'I' nor 'me', so it must be neutral, and hence universally applicable, right?
There's also the traditional thinking that elementary school teachers used to admonish their pupils "Try to avoid using "I" so much, that way you'll come off less a braggart."
Also, traditionally it was always "Billy Bob and I", as "I" was the object of prepositions. But again, it could go back to a subconscious reluctance of using "I" so as to appear less a narcissist. It's the old humble bit, so to speak.
Christians and classical liberals are the last universalists remaining on the right. Everyone else is tribing up. It's actually inaccurate to say all Christians; plenty of them are tribing up as well.
You need to get that illustration blown up and framed and hang it in your living room, Steve.
Christian 'universalists' are taking one of the calling cards of the Church, i.e. its super-national unity (little theological pun intended; Lord have mercy), and immanentizing it down into the worldly, geopolitical sphere.
Paul says 'in Christ there is no Jew or Greek' -- but this is only within the Kingdom, the Church, accomplished through the saving work of Jesus (hence the 'in Christ', and the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit. There is no such promise for the nations of the world.
“The idea that a person made in the image of God can be reduced to one measure of his height is profoundly anti-Christian.” Am I doing this right?
Yes, true Christian faith *demands* an elastic tape measure.
I would leave a pithy comment but my head has exploded after reading all that. Nice pic.
People like this author act as if the post-ideological Right is a new thing. It's actually been around since 2001 and the disaster of George W Bush's suburban goober conservatism. Roissy, Dalrock, Ramzpaul, ZMan, Dennis Mangan, John Derbyshire, Peter Brimelow, Paul Gottfried, Hans-Herman Hoppe, me, have all been pointing out the failure of liberal idealism/universalism since 9/11/2001. The Alt-Right was fantastic and FUN, until Richard Spencer's clown show in Charlottesville derailed it.
Lots of us coalesced around Ron Paul, who of course got kicked to the curb by the Republican mainstream in favor of the execrable John McCain and the slick, shallow Mitt Romney. It took until 2016 for the Republicans to finally realize they couldn't keep bringing a toy knife to a gunfight. If we're going to have an Empire, we need someone willing to be a Caesar. When it all starts falling apart around 2035, that's when our team will need a Lee Kuan Yew, and a Robert E. Lee.
It's surprising to me after the run of events since 2016 that this genteel First Baptist-Conservatism is still around. But I guess there are still enough idealistic Christian millionaires over 65 who can fund it.
Spencer, what a disappointment.
Indeed.
Related: another Christian commentator criticizes Ross Douthat for interviewing Jonathan Keeperman without pressuring Keeperman to denounce Steve Sailer's Voldemortian views.
https://mereorthodoxy.com/how-to-interview-political-revolutionaries
Lots of interesting links from there.
I guess you are a pagan insofar as you reject the American elite's radical egalitarianism which cloaks itself in a specious understanding of Christianity. Or I guess you could be sacrificing bovine livers to Wotan in your free time who knows