Return of the Strong Gods Lib/E: Nationalism, Populism, and the Future of the West

by R R Reno, Rick Adamson (Reader)

Audio CD

Published May 29, 2020

Reviews

[Anders Hundahl · Rating 4 out of 5]

Noget så sjældent som en læseværdig og tankevækkende kritik af vores vestlige liberale og kapitalistiske demokrati fra højre.
Reno er konservativ og kristen - og belæst. Han advokerer for solidaritet og fællesskab - og for Gud konge og fædreland.

Han kritiserer de seneste 80 års udvikling - globalisering, sækularisering, diversitet og migration over grænser, fra et kristens konservativt udgangspunkt. På baggrund de de to verdenskrige, er vi blevet (for) bange for stærke værdier - med en usund svækkelse af værdifællesskabet og en følelse af hjemløshed til følge. Skurkene er Popper og Hayek, der, af gode grunde, tager afstand fra totalitarismen og grusomhederne i årene fra 1914 til 1945; men smider tro, kærlighed, og solidaritet, de stærke Guder, ud med badevandet.

God, ret kort og læsværdig bog om de seneste 80 års (idé)historie, som du kan læse med udbytte selv om du, som jeg, ikke er enig i alt.

[Jesse Beauford · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars

The weakening of being, the exchange of truth for meaning and virtue for value, the “we” (family, community, country) for the individual, all of this and more for the sake of “openness and inclusion”. We cannot have any that is solid because someone might make it an absolute and start “forcing” others to submit. No truth equals peace because nobody is willing to fight for anything. The weakening of being allows the self, the individual to decide what “it” is.
Now that we’re free of social, economic and religious restrictions ie deregulated, we can have free sex, murder our children, divorce over nothing and mutilate ourselves or our children because it’s free and open.

No more borders or boundaries means everyone will be happy etc, etc, I’m making myself feel sick!

Reno makes a compelling argument from an unusual angle, definitely recommend.

[Michael Rizzoni · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great attack on the post WW2 consensus that has been destroying Europe and America since 1945. The book was 95% accurate until the last chapter when the author unfortunately (like many pieces on this phenomena) veers off into this “an American can ultimately be anyone who accepts certain principles.” It’s a tired boomer trope that all humans are the same plus an annoying struggle session at his church from years ago about the Jim Crow era and the Tuskegee Airmen that was completely unnecessary. It’s like the old saying of, “I’m not racist, look at my black friend!” Doesn’t add anything and just seems like pandering to the side that he so eloquently states earlier in the book hates the West anyway.