St. Austin Review: Reclaiming Culture

March 2nd, 2010The Infernal Beast Stirs Againby Kevin O'Brien | http://www.thewordinc.org

Belloc said the primary moral fruit of modernism is not sexual license, but cruelty - for such was the primary moral fruit of paganism.  I am reading about the North American Martyrs, who endured unimaginable cruelties and tortures at the hands of the Indians.  The paganism of the natives was bloodthirsty and savage and infernal, with men, women and children engaging in what can best be described as orgies of torture.  Some of the Jesuits were publicly tortured for hours on end before being martyred, their fingers gnawed off, their bodies burned, their lips and tongues and noses cut off, hot pokers thrust down their throats, etc.  We fallen men can give ourselves over to the most obscene and perverse and cruel acts as we rush headlong into hell.  Heigh ho!

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