Christianity

Holy water and mumbled words cannot change one’s race. Meanwhile, Angela Merkel says “Islam belongs in Germany.” MOHAMMED ALI ZONOOBI bends his head as the priest pours holy water over his black hair. “Will you break away from Satan and his evil deeds?” pastor Gottfried…

THE GREAT “Culture War” is over. In the very same week that the Confederate Flag was taken down across the country the Gay Flag was hoisted up. At the same time the Confederacy and the Old South were repeatedly attacked and denounced, the White House was bathed in the colors of the rainbow flag. What a cosmic…

by Revilo P. Oliver introduced by Kevin Alfred Strom IN APRIL 1977 Revilo P. Oliver (pictured) was working on the second edition of his book, Christianity and the Survival of the West. This second edition would be different in a crucial way from the first: Oliver had decided in the intervening five years…

by Revilo P. Oliver Atheism and Pessimism IF YOU SEARCH the annals of mankind for a parallel to the strict materialism and concomitant atheism that is the premise of a very large part of the dominant thought of our time and simply taken for granted by many of our best minds, you will find the closest parallel…

by Revilo P. Oliver (Liberty Bell, September 1991) IN THE Liberty Bell for September 1990, my attention was particularly caught by Nicholas Carter’s italicized statement about the early history of Christianity: “we simply do not know what happened during the first hundred years or…

MYTH IS a gateway to action. Christmas is a gateway to gift-giving, putting up trees, and enjoying Christmas carols. Thanksgiving is a gateway to gathering together with family in formal feast. Halloween is a gateway to dressing up in costumes and trick-or-treating. Easter prompts the action of…

by Revilo P. Oliver LAST AUTUMN the Christian Science Monitor devoted a full page to what would have been a ‘scoop’ in the old days of independent and competitive journalism. It predicted that on the first of January 1989, William F. Buckley, Jr., would retire from active management of…

A thought-provoking article on the spiritual nature of our race, written by R. P. Oliver, one of the greatest writers and thinkers of the last 100 years. — Kevin Alfred Strom.
by Revilo P. Oliver (pictured with his wife Grace in 1990) WE DO NOT KNOW when or how or by whom the notion of a life after death was…

A GROUP OF local clergy is taking steps to tear down the walls of racial divide and build bridges of reconciliation in Kent, a city Google research data identified as the most racist in Northeast Ohio. “It is unacceptable for Kent to be identified as the most racist community,” said the Rev. William Meyer…

by Robert Green Ingersoll (pictured) THEY SAY that the Emperor Julian [AD 331-363] was an “apostate”; that he was once a Christian; that he fell from grace, and that in his last moments, throwing some of his own blood into the air, he cried out to Jesus Christ, “Galilean, thou hast…