Moved Loren's video post to this thread for context.
I feel that this is really obnoxious agit-prop. I had a very strong negative reaction.
I would agree that Dyer has some legitimate concerns about the rate of Islamic migration into Western societies. But, he seems to be working hard to whip up as much hate & fear as possible. He doesn't understand or recognize that ordinary Islamic people are not the enemy.
If we want to have fewer Islamic immigrants, the first step is to stop unjustly making war on their home countries, turning them into disaster areas and creating refugees. Dyer doesn't ever mention that aspect of the problem.
Quotes from the video:
I think we still are called to fight now. Orthodoxy has a history of great saints and kings who were virtuous in battle. they went to the battlefield and fought against Islam. They fought for their people, for their heritage, for their tribe, for their culture. That is true virtue, that is true heroism, and we should be doing that today. It's not fought out there on a battlefield. I mean it could one day but, you're not gonna be, you know, fighting darpa dogs and tanks with, you know, swords and horses. The battlefield is fought for the mind, is fought on line, it's fought through information war. That's where the real battlefield is is in our day....
We have a continual pattern of standing up to Islam because it is a heresy, and if you read the works of st. John of Damascus you understand why that is. I'm not really going to get into the theology here, but the point is that in terms of civilization studies we have to oppose Islam, right? And, the West is falling and the West is collapsing because of its own degeneracy....
Now I'm not saying that we go to war, but I'm saying that the pacifist tendency (as Spangler said) is the the sign of the collapse and death of a civilization. Once they adopt pacifism, because it means that they've lost their virility, and their manhood, and this is completely contrary to Christianity. And despite the idiocy of modern evangelicalism and pacifist Roman Catholicism, St. Athanasius and his fourth fortieth letter teaches very clearly the virtues of warfare and the death penalty....
It doesn't matter how many ecumenicals and how many liberals, how many modernists, try to tell us that we have to accept pacifism and higher criticism and liberalism and evolutionary nonsense, all of which I've covered many many times; because it all goes together, all the people that promote all that crap. they all go the same route and all they do is aid globalism. And what do we do? We defend the opposite. So the battle lines are becoming clearly drawn and you can decide which path you want to take. Death, sterility, the end, self-destruction. Maybe that is, maybe you want suicide, right? And as the scripture says, right? I've set before you life and death. Which of these will you choose? So that's really what we're, where we are -- at an impasse. And Western civilization, and by extension, you know, Orthodox countries as well, are really going to be faced with the choice of degenerate liberalism which is self-destructive and in all of its forms; or the return to robust masculine virile Orthodox theology.
Seriously? He expects us to reject the higher Biblical criticism, as well as the Theory of Evolution, because Orthodox theologians have bigger dicks?
