Table Of ContentCHRISTIANITY AND THE
SURVIVAL OF THE WEST
By
Revilo P. Oliver
STERLING ENTERPRISES
STERLING,VIRGINIA
1973
©ReviloP.Oliver 1973
STERLINGENTERPRISES
STERLING,VIRGINIA
1973
Library ofCongressCatalog Card No.73-77357
Printedinthe United StatesofAmerica
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
In his Conspiracy or Degeneracy? in 1966
Dr. Oliver asked the crucial question, "Have
we, the Men of the West, lost the will to
live?" To that question there has been no
definitive answer.
The present book is an attempt to clarify
our religious and cultural tradition. It is a
profound and revealing analysis. Rest assured,
you will not find in these pages what you
have read elsewhere.
It is the publisher's sincere belief that this
book, widely read, could accomplish miracles.
The question is whether or not we can set
aside our preconceived notions long enough
to understand its message.
And what is that message? It is that we
must recognize things as they are, and base
our efforts on present realities, not dreams
and wishes. Make no mistake: unless we deal
with facts as facts, we, the heirs of
Christendom, will doom ourselves to oblivion.
The Publisher
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Dr. ReviloPendletonOliver
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About theauthor ....
Dr. Revilo Pendleton Oliver, Professor of the Classics at the
University of Illinois, is a scholar ofinternational distinction who has
written in four languages scholarly articles published in twelve learned
periodicals of the United States and Europe. His first book, a critical
and copiously annotated translation from the Sanskrit,waspublished in
1938.
During World War II, Dr. Oliver was Director of Research in a
highly secret agency of the War Department, and was cited for
outstandingservice to hiscountry.
As early as 1934, in articles in Nation's Business, he accurately
forecast the economic servitude that was gradually imposed on the
American people during the next decade by the masters ofFranklin D.
Roosevelt. He is one ofthe very fewcollege professors who have dared
consistently and vigorously to oppose and denounce the progressive
subversion of American institutions and defacement of Western
civilization.
Since 1954, he unceasingly sought to promote and obtain an
effective cooperation between all genuinely American patrioticgroups,
urging that doctrinaire differences be subordinated to essential pur
poses. His article, "Conservatism and Reality," in Modern Age (Fall
1961) represents the counsel that he consistently gave until he
recognized in 1964 that irreversible events had made the proposed
tactic obsolete and had finally made many of the hopes of "conserva
tives" unattainable.
He participated in the founding of the John Birch Society and in
planning for it a strategy that was never put into practice. He was a
member of the National Council ofthe BirchSocietyuntil July, 1966,
when he severed his connections with all of the various enterprises
promoted by Robert Welch, including American Opinion, to which he
had contributed two short books, numerous articles, and many
searching book reviews, believing that he could thus best serve the
American interest.
His booklet,Conspiracy orDegeneracy?,containing the text ofa
famous speech given in Boston on 2 July, 1966, and copious
documentary and elucidatory notes, was published by Power Products,
Nedrow, New York, in 1967, and received the Award ofMerit of the
American Academy ofPublic Affairs.
After his public announcement that he could "no longer in
conscience remain a member" ofthe Birch Council or lend his efforts
and name to any of the activities of Robert Welch, Professor Oliver
refused to contribute to "conservative" periodicals published in the
United States, believing that the public was not yet ready to face
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unpleasant realities or to surrender hopes and dreams that had become
unattainable within the predictable future.
When the Birch Society wasfounded asapatriotic organization in
1958, Professor Oliver urged the formation ofan affiliate that would
appeal directly and in realistic terms to young Americansin the schools
and colleges, and help them free their minds from the demoralizing
propaganda to which they were constantlyand forcibly exposed.
Believing that the riots which our enemies were obviously
planning to hold in colleges during the autumn and winter of 1969
would offer a unique opportunity to recruit decent young men and
women, he agreed at the beginningofthatyear to sponsor the National
Youth Alliance, for which he wrote an article, "After Fifty Years,"
published in the American Mercury, Fall, 1969, after having been
widely distributed in advance offprints. The organization was aborted
by the professional promoter who had agreed to finance its formative
stages, and was, as Professor Oliver apprehended in his article,
"frustrated at its very inception," and so came to an end. A great
opportunity wasthusirretrievablylost.
Professor Oliver has no connection with the National Youth
Alliance that is the legitimate successor organization and isdirected by
Dr.WilliamL.Pierce, for whose abilitieshe has ahigh regard.
As the author observes in his "Postscript" to the presentvolume,
this is his first publication ofgeneral interest on behalfofour agonizing
nation and civilizationsince 1969.
The Publisher
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CONTENTS
I. THE RELIGION OF THE WEST 1
II. THE ORIENT .. 9
III. CHRISTIANITY TODAY 19
IV. THE PREDICTABLE FUTURE
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V. THE CONSEQUENCES ..... · 41
VI. SUCCEDANEOUS RELIGION · 55
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COVER
AChristian memorialat
Middleton,Yorkshire,
showingthe figureofa
Vikingwarrior surrounded
by hisweaponsand
shield,asifrepresenting
the layoutofhis
gravechamber in
accordancewith pagan
tradition.
A return will set in of the re-active pressure ofnature upon mankind.
Mankind will again be restive under it. ... But woe to that people
which has not men that willstand up and fight without flinching. Those
countries where the moral decay shall have gone deepest, where the
proved stock shall have died out and given way to poor stock, where
the greatest effeminisation of men shall have taken place (for the
masculinisation ofwomen will be no compensation), where the strong
and the wise and the shrewd shall gain no more ofwealth, power, and
influence than the weak,silly, and incompetent,all beingequal,-those
will go to the wall. And when this fate shall have overtaken most ofour
western white men's countries, our cycle of civilization will be
completed.
-Correa Moylan Walsh(1917)
Glucklichwird niemandsein, der heuteirgendwo in der Welt lebt.
-Oswald Spengler(I918)
Jamais comme aujourd'hui les peuples n'ont eu la sensation d'etre
menes par les evenements. Jamais ils n'ont ete plus impuissants, plus
volontairement impuissants devant eux.... Et c'est bien ce qui me
parait Ie plus tragique dans I'aspect du monde de 1932: on n'y voit
qu'une civilisation qui tombe et lanuit qui approche.
-Pierre Loewel (1932)
The mission ofthis generationis the most difficult that has ever faced a
Western generation. It must break the terror by which it is held in
silence, it must look ahead, it must believe when there isapparently no
hope, it must obey even if it means death, it must fight to the end
rather than submit. ... The men ofthis generation must fight for the
continuedexistenceofthe West.
-FrancisParker Yockey(1948)
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