Christianity

by H.L. Mencken THE BACKWARDNESS OF the art of biography in These States is made shiningly visible by the fact that we have yet to see a first-rate life of either Lincoln or Whitman. Of Lincolniana, of course, there is no end, nor is there any end to the hospitality of those who collect it. Some time ago a publisher…

by William Gayley Simpson Part 5 of 7 The author of Which Way Western Man? reaches a new level of understanding of man’s identity and mission, and he begins to gain an awareness of the importance of race (ILLUSTRATION: WILLIAM SIMPSON in early 1939) Editor’s Introduction: The previous…

by Revilo P. Oliver AN ARTICLE in a magazine at which I glanced the other day repeated the trite and hackneyed denunciation of the Inquisitors in Rome, who forced Galileo (pictured) to recant his belief in Copernican astronomy and thus gave him an opportunity, if tradition is to be trusted, to mutter…

by William Gayley Simpson Part 4 of 7 The author of Which Way Western Man? eventually came to understand that the liberalism and egalitarianism he had imbibed from Jesus’ teachings were as alien to him as the Semitic theology he had rejected earlier. (ILLUSTRATION: WILLIAM SIMPSON in the early…

by William Gayley Simpson Part 3 of 7 The author of Which Way Western Man? spent nine years attempting to live in full accord with the teachings of Jesus before he realized their irreconcilable incompatibility with his own innermost nature. (ILLUSTRATION: SAILING to the Orient in October 1927: William…

by Max Musson WE LIVE IN a world in which many people have a dark sense of foreboding. Particularly in Western European countries where we have experienced better times within living memory, there is a feeling that many facets of our lives are deteriorating and have been relentlessly deteriorating…

“Mosaic” religions feed irrational, violent behavior — just as much in Peoria as in Damascus or Tel Aviv by Glenn Greenwald A NEW POLL from Bloomberg Politics contains a finding that, if you really think about it, is quite remarkable: Almost half of all Americans want to support…

by William Gayley Simpson Part 2 of 7 The author of Which Way Western Man? rejected Christian theology before the end of the First World War, but he retained a commitment to Christian ethics for several more years. (ILLUSTRATION: SPEAKING to groups of young people was an activity to which William Simpson…

EDITOR’S NOTE: This seven-part series from the unpublished autobiography of William Simpson, was originally published in the March, June, and August 1983 and March, August, and December 1984 issues of National Vanguard magazine. This is a deeply moving, hard-hitting, no-holds-barred…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Obviously, Marcion’s variation on Christianity is no more true than the established versions. But equally obviously, it will be many, many decades before the Semitic cult vanishes entirely — so it may be in our best interest to see that Marcion’s less-Jewish…