In recent years, the Alt-Right—along
with the Alt-West, Alt-Lite, and the Hard Right—has come to the forefront of
the political scene. This has been due in large part because right-leaning
individuals have come to realize just how ineffective standard “conservatives”
are at battling the Left. And given the left-leaning socio-cultural changes
that have swept the West under the guardianship of standard conservatives, it
is quite understandable that many young traditionalists have gravitated to a
political alternative like the Alt-Right.
But just as with modern
conservativism, the same sorts of problems exist for modern Christianity.
Indeed, under the “watchful” eye of standard conservative Christians,
Christianity in the West has become more liberal, more feminized, more
Churchian, and entirely less Christian! As such, is it any wonder that many Christian men are
leaving Christian churches and are searching for an alternative to the
weak-kneed Churchianity that they see around them. Of course not. But is there
any Christian alternative to be had? Indeed there is, and it is called
Alt-Christianity.
What is Alt-Christianity? In
one sense, Alt-Christianity is a new way of looking at Christianity; it is a
new Christian mindset, if you will. And as we know from fitness and game,
changing one’s mindset is often the key change that needs to be made for
exponential personal development and growth. At the same time, Alt-Christianity
also aims to be a means by which orthodox Christianity could be revived amongst
men in the West. And since traditional Christianity is a pillar of Western
Civilization, the importance of this goal can be overstated.
Now, in terms of its general
tenets, Alt-Christianity can be summarized by the following 21 points (and note
that these points were largely inspired by Vox Day’s 16 Points concerning the
Alt-Right):
1. Both theologically and
morally, Alt-Christianity is traditionalist and right-leaning. It is also
more focused on shared morality and mere-Christianity than on denominational
differences. However, Progressive-Christianity, Liberal-Christianity, and
Feminist-Christianity are not Alt-Christianity.
2. Alt-Christianity is an
alternative to the mainstream Christian conservative movement in the West which
has, whether wittingly or not, been largely infected with strains of
progressivism, materialism, feminism, SJWism, over-ecumenism, and Churchianism.
Alt-Christianity has seen the socio-cultural results of these infections on the
Christian faith and thus pro-actively and overtly fights against them, rather than ignoring, accommodating, or even indulging
them, which many modern Christian movements do. And the fight against
these problems is done first within the church, and then against them outside of the church.
3. Alt-Christianity is not
defensive in nature and, just like Christ, it rejects the elevation of
niceness, tolerance, and likeability over Christian truth. It holds an
“initiative-maintaining” mindset and believes in victory through persistence,
sacrifice, materialistic minimalism, and remaining in harmony with objective
reality, historical truths, and psychological/biological facts about human
nature.
4. Alt-Christianity firmly
believes in the use of reason; however, since Alt-Christianity knows that men
are not usually moved by dry arguments, it is also willing to use truth-focused
polemics, biting rhetoric, humorous memes, and imaginative narratives to make
it points.
5. Concerning faith and
morals, Alt-Christianity is skeptical of any attempts to redefine the clear
sayings, implications, and example of Christ and the rest of the New Testament,
or Christian tradition, in order to accommodate modern sensibilities.
6. Alt-Christianity
recognizes that all men are made in the image of God and that all men will be
judged, but beyond this, Alt-Christianity rejects the idea of earthly equality
for all practical purposes given the observable lack of anything like natural
equality existing or possibly existing amongst men. For the same reason,
Alt-Christianity denies human perfectibility and earthly utopianism.
7. Alt-Christianity believes
traditional Western Civilization is the best civilization that Man has ever
created. It also holds that traditional Christianity is a key pillar of that
civilization. As such, Alt-Christianity supports the roots of traditionalist
Christianity: namely, the traditional family, patriarchy, “red-pill” knowledge,
Christian education, and apologetics in the full and broadest sense.
8. Given the above,
Alt-Christianity wishes to see traditional Western Civilization maintained, and
is thus open to whatever political system shows itself best suited to the
maintenance of that civilization. At the same time, Alt-Christianity realizes
that civilizations and nations are maintained by people, and that not all
people are created equal. As such, Alt-Christianity supports the implementation
of whatever specific political and cultural practices are best suited to allow
a particular people to maintain traditional Western Civilization. Simultaneously,
Alt-Christianity supports restricting whatever specific political and cultural
practices undermine a particular people’s ability to maintain traditional
Western Civilization.
9. Alt-Christianity is
nationalistic. It supports the right of all distinct
ethno-ideological/religious groups to exist as distinct groups, and to defend
their existence. Alt-Christianity is also anti-globalist in the political
sense, but believes in unity amongst nations through a shared Christian faith.
Ultimately, Alt-Christianity remembers the lesson of the Tower of Babel and
realizes that ethno-states are a lesser threat to Christianity than a global
political entity is.
10. Alt-Christianity see no
conflict between science and Christianity, but it is not naïve enough to ignore
the fact that there is a difference between certain scientific claims and the
interpretation of scientists—many of them actively anti-Christian—concerning
those claims. Thus, Alt-Christianity takes an attitude of tentative acceptance,
coupled with skepticism, concerning the findings of modern science, especially
those of a historical rather than an experimental nature.
11. Alt-Christianity believes
that identity—both in the ethnic and the religious sense—is the catalyst for
culture, which is itself more important than politics. As such, the
Alt-Christian is both verbally and non-verbally overt in his Christian identity.
12. Alt-Christianity is
opposed to the unrequested rule, domination, or excessive influence (by any
means) of any ethnic and/or religious group or Christian denomination over
another; as such, Alt-Christianity supports the right of de facto or de jure self-determination /
segregation for ethnic and/or religious reasons.
13. Alt-Christianity is more
interested in the approval of God than of men; it knows that the Prince of this
World is its enemy and that, as Jesus warned, the world will hate it. Thus, the
Alt-Christian is not interested in being “respectable” in the eyes of
non-Christians, nor does the Alt-Christian care about the negative labels that
non-Christians will inevitability place on him.
14. Alt-Christianity is
opposed to the separation of church and state in an absolute sense, for
Alt-Christianity understands that the absolute separation of church and state
always leads to the state, and/or the enemies of the church, using the
resources and laws of the state to undermine the church.
15. Alt-Christianity is more
interested in the Faith than in earthly charity, although it strongly
encourages the latter because it is mandated by, and supports, the former.
However, the Alt-Christian knows that charity begins first at home, and only
then extends outward. Furthermore, virtue-signaling charity is a vice, and so
whoever allows his own family, his nation, and the Faith itself to be
undermined for the sake of virtue-signaling charity is worse than an
unbeliever.
16. Alt-Christianity is
pro-“capitalism” in terms of policy, but pro-socialist in terms of personal
charity; it holds that a man who freely does not work, but can, shall not eat,
but a man who wishes to work but cannot, shall not be hungry.
17. Alt-Christianity believes
that we must secure the existence of Christians in general, but that we must
also specifically secure the existence of Christians in countries of European
heritage and ancestry, for as Belloc said: “Europe is the Faith, and the Faith
is Europe”.
18. Alt-Christianity believes
that Christianity is true, but it also sees truth and value in other religions.
As such, while holding Christianity as the best and most complete faith, and
boldly proclaiming it as such, Alt-Christianity does not, in principle, ignore
or reject the insights of non-Christian religious or cultural traditions.
19. Alt-Christianity believes
in evangelism. However, the Alt-Christian remembers to wipe the dust off his
feet from those who, in full knowledge and Godly-freedom, reject Christianity.
Thus, Alt-Christianity rejects the non-evangelism of liberal-Christianity as
well as any imperialist attempts at the imposition of Christianity by force or
coercion.
20. Alt-Christianity values
personal strength, intellectual boldness, masculinity, and the Christ who
overturned tables. Indeed, Alt-Christianity realizes that Christ was not
followed because He allowed Himself to die, but rather because He was the
ultimate alpha male who conquered Man’s greatest enemy: namely, death.
21. Finally, just as
the man Jesus Christ and his male Apostles led the first
Christians, so too is Alt-Christianity meant to be led by men. After all, the
failures of the West ultimately fall on the heads of its men, and so it is men
that must lead the West back to its traditional roots.
Now, will embracing these 21
tenets of Alt-Christianity reverse the slide of orthodox Christianity in the
West? Frankly, I do not know. But I do know that making the mindset change to
Alt-Christianity is surely better than continuing the ineffective tactics of
the past few generations.
