Blood Cults

I have a good friend who has a sentimental attachment to democracy. He tends to see, in the Marxist mode, all right-wing popular movements as being the same and says, "for someone who claims to not be into race and blood cults, your latest post on the Dutch could make someone wonder."

Ah-hah! You must understand that I see these things as matters of cultures, not genetics. And I absolutely affirm and declare that there are some cultures that are objectively better than others. Not only that, but I affirm and declare that one can go from one culture to another, even as an adult, and should be seen as part of the culture he has joined. So, an Algerian can have as credible a claim as Oriana Fellacci to being an Italian should he fully embrace Italian culture (one would have to renounce Mohamedanism to be a bona fide Italian, though).

So, I do not see anything genetically wrong with the Englisch or Dutch: they are people, as much so as Italians, even. They are capable of all the triumphs and failings of the French, the Spanish, the Californian, etc. IF they reject that which is erroneous in their culture (and I will not go so far as to say that ANY culture is all bad, even the Aztec, which gets pretty close in its religion to pure evil).

There is one standard by which to ultimately judge a culture, and that is the Gospel as interpreted by the living magisterium of the Catholic Church, and every culture has some good and some bad. It is just that the proportions of each are not equal.

So, dear reader, have no fear that I am promoting some race and blood cult. Those are wrong and evil and have no place in a Catholic dialog.