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This was beautifully written. Genuine love and admiration from Norway.

One thing i have witnessed, in my own country, but others as well, is the malevolent use of 'Christian' aktivist groups to facilitate the immigration of third world 'Christians' to Western Nations. These activists are of course only superficially Christian, and care nothing for Western Peoples, their brand of 'Christianity' is a social justise version. These activists and the meek and frankly pathetic 'right wing' politicians who support them, seem absurdly unaware of the fact that these 'Christian' somalis and eritreans etc that they help bring to our shores don't even remotely practice the same Christianity as us Europeans, and that their 'Christianity' is often just a rebranded tribalism for their own people and no one else. A 'Christian' eritrean will not, as is obvious to anyone paying attention, care more about preserving Western Traditions and Culture than a muslim Eritrean. They are, more often than not, equally envious and hatefulle towards Europeans and European accomplishments. And this makes perfect sense, as it is a perennial realm to this issue. To think, as many modern 'right wing' people do, that the owerwhelming spirit and beauty of European Christian history, shaped by millenia, also by beautiful traditions predating Christianity, could even be compared to a somali or eritean 'Christian', whose conversion is largely a product of modern colonial and post colonial efforts, is laughable.

A topic that i have often pondered about, and perhaps one that could write about, is the contrast between the often lauded moral man, or the good citizen and the exceptional man. It seems, at least to me, that we have disproportionally celebrated mere agreeableness and compliance over quality broadly. In my own case i can not help but reasonate more with the truly exceptional individual, even when that person lacks a conventionally defined moral compass, rather than the solely 'good' man without passions or talents. The latter, if I can be brutally honest, seems and abomination of Mankind. And in the applauding of the 'good' man, we never stop to realise that the morals of that individual are not really moral at all, at least not in the active and heroic Indo-European sense. The 'good mans' morality is cowardice to my eyes, and will lead to much more suffering for all. Mere moral make-up to hide truly hideous creations.

I want to make it clear also that i deeply appreciate and value morality, also in the conventionally thought of manner, but it is my opinion that this strong sense of morality and justice, must be coupled with a strong will and strong hand, unaffected by the whims and complaints of lesser men. Perhaps you can elaborate more on this if that is your intention, i think it is a very important topic. And sorry if this was overly long and frantic, i certainly wrote more than i initially intended.

Again, all the best Asha, from Norway.

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As Pete Quinones says “The Left gave their radicals no show 6 figure jobs and The Right censored theirs and called them Nazi’s for decades.”

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