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the realisation that furry children means dogs hit me like a train at 4 in the morning

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I only remembered vaguely that this book talked a lot about "western civilization" and that's often a red flag that something is a lil bit fascist-leaning, so I decided to re-read and annotate, since i recall this book being pretty influential among evangelicals (?) and we're currently being terrorized by a Christo-fascist political faction

Between this and The Decadent Society, I'm starting to think that anybody who talks a lot about "Western civilization" has one method of analyzing history, and it's "generalize wildly from the basis of the 2 (two) historical events they've heard of"

Anyway, this book is very insightful actually, because it has the recurring core ideas that:

societies need some form of "absolute" foundation to build their culture, laws and values upon (Schaeffer repeatedly argues that Greece and Rome fell because they didn't have 'eternal' values and instead were polytheists)

democracy and personal liberty as we know it are directly derived from Christianity, but even more broadly, the idea of truth itself or absolute ideas of right and wrong are impossible without Christianity. Christianity provides an "absolute" basis for saying that things are right or true. Furthermore, modern science would not exist without Christianity, because only Christianity allows humans to reason that the universe is orderly.

So those are the two core ideas that are repeated over and over again throughout the book: that Christianity is the basis of order, truth, and reason, and that previous societies that "failed" did so because they didn't have Christianity.

I am vibrating with frustration at how bad this man is at drawing conclusions about history. He either leaves out entire art movements, periods of time, and civilizations that can't be horribly misrepresented to support his point, or just straight up doesn't know they exist.

He blatantly ignores the intellectual and artistic achievements of people who aren't Christians, and blatantly ignores violent and authoritarian Christians. A quick glance at history will cause your eyeballs to pick up a dozen uncontroversial facts that send all his points straight to Eeby Deeby, and yet he still possesses The Audacity.

E.g. Roman arenas are evidence of a "fascination with violence" that is symptomatic of "decadence." Public hangings, burning at the stake, medieval torture devices, duels, cockfighting, and hunting Native American people for sport (literally)? I guess the history books you don't read can't hurt you!

He has a conclusion he wants to support and he cherry-picks information from the most obscure resources to support it. that thing about Rome in the above paragraph was written by a guy who died in the 1790s

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Schaefer's ultimate conclusion is that the only two options for "our" society in the future are: a return to Christian ideas and values, or authoritarianism.

What he does not explicitly acknowledge is this: really, his conclusion is just "authoritarianism."

His arguments get him to that dichotomy because his "Christian" worldview is authoritarian. Humans need an authority to make them do good things, or they will be bad. The universe needs a powerful entity to make things true, or nothing is really true. Society needs some kind of greater power to make it legitimate, or a non-specific bad thing will happen.

It's fascinating and chilling to see the extent to which this assumption is fully unquestioned in his writing.

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Schaeffer certainly shares what I consider to be one of the main "signs" of a fascist ideology: a kind of permeating anxiety about some form of cultural "order" being "lost," resulting in degeneration into moral and cultural "chaos."

Some of the things that terrify Schaeffer include:

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Francis Schaeffer, after watching a movie 100 times: it still wont ttel l me?? what s objectvi ly true... i,m ssh akign,,???,,,

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If you want to understand Christo-fascism, these paragraphs should be sufficient.

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There is no book or work of writing that lays out the core creed or ideas of fascism, so pinning it down will always be somewhat impossible, but fascism generally revolves around the following:

extreme nationalism
belief in the inherent superiority of a cultural, usually racial or ethnic, "in-group," which is under threat and needs to be defended
totalitarianism
belief that the current society is decaying and "decadent," and that we should "return to" the values, lifestyles and beliefs of The Past

Authoritarianism and fascism are not the same; there are authoritarians all over the political spectrum. however, fascism generally speaking is authoritarian

I'm using the term "Christo-fascist" because in the USA, the far right-wing, predominantly Christian faction is displaying virtually all the signs right now:

belief that the USA is the best nation, both in theory and in practice, frequently also that the USA is inherently Christian in its founding, conception, and/or core principles. This hits both "extreme nationalism" and "belief in the superiority of a select group."
this cannot be separated from the popularity, among Evangelical christians, of interpretations of Christianity that privilege America as having some special significance, or that hold the Bible to include messages that are unintelligible outside of a modern American context
totalitarianism: a totalitarian state is one that seeks to control EVERYTHING: what you think as well as what you do. All nation-states produce propaganda to some extent, and the big global players produce a lot of it, so don't think this is me saying this is unique to America.
However, in America, the Christian far-right openly discusses their interest in controlling how people think, particularly The Children. As someone who grew up in this environment, one of the major points of anxiety and fear for this group is their inability to control what their children will believe when they grow up. This leads to a great deal of focus on educating kids in "worldview" and basically injecting them hard enough with "Christian" ideas that they don't change their minds as adults.
This leads to books like "how to stay Christian in college" (yes, this exists). In one youth group I attended (like, twice?), we did a program called "sticky faith" which set out to give high-schoolers answers to the questions the authors thought were most likely to turn kids away from the faith—evolution, abortion, and LGBTQ rights were three topics discussed. This is also why these same people support laws controlling what parts of history can and can't be taught in schools.
The US Christian right is actually super nihilistic in this way: they believe that there's no way to reach any truth outside of a Christian worldview. There are a lot of homeschool and youth group curricula that teach "worldview," but not like "you have a lens that governs the way you see the world, and you have to be aware of it," it is instead "you have to have the Correct worldview or else everything you perceive and learn is wrong, so here's the Correct worldview."
Also, this is obvious, but this group is the one that thinks a world where cops can break into your bedroom and arrest you for having butt sex is Good.
The last point, regarding "decay" and "decadence," is actually probably the most distinctive: this group believes that gender roles, rules for sexual behavior, structures like "the family," values in general, culture, and often Truth Itself are all rapidly decaying.
The USamerican Christian Right will almost always extrapolate this to the point of predicting that soon, saying "men" and "women" will be illegal, pedophilia will be celebrated, and 2+2 will equal 5. Because they think truth and morality cannot arise and persist outside of Christianity, they think anything about society that seems to be agreed-upon, orderly, or good is incredibly fragile and will simply disappear as soon as Christianity loses its dominance. So, yes, they do think that just by seeing a gay person, your kid might become gay.
i could honestly write a whole book about this, but tl;dr they believe coercion and/or inoculation with "Christian values" is necessary to stop chaos/breakdown (and that this chaos/breakdown is ALWAYS bad)

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