The radical republican government of 1905 used the pretext of the "separation of Church and State" to persecute the Church, to despoil its patrimony and to expel the contemplative orders. The result is well known: unrest flared up throughout France between the authorities and the Catholic faithful defending their priests and churches. Thanks be to God, the events did not take the Jacobin turn of the Terror of 1793 and blood did not flow, but the effects were acute. Persecution by the secular state against the Church and French Catholics occurred at all levels with purges within the administration and the army. This loss of competent and experienced officials and military leaders no doubt partly explains why France was ill-prepared to fight in World War I, with catastrophic consequences for the whole of Europe and what remained of Christianity...

The perfect political society constituted by the State, whose end is the common good, is quite distinct from the perfect society constituted by the Church, whose end is the salvation of souls.

And all this is based on a lie: because the republicans wanted to "separate" the Church and the State - except that the Church and the State have never been merged in the entire Christian history of France! This is precisely the exceptional particularity of the universal religion: the perfect political society constituted by the State, whose end is the common good, is quite distinct from the perfect society constituted by the Church, whose end is the salvation of souls. Each baptized person is part of these two societies, quite distinct, quite separate. The history of France shows how the two societies collaborate closely, and in an orderly fashion, to ensure the common good for the salvation of souls: it is the union of the throne and the altar.

There exists no abstract concept of "State" with a capital "S" or "Church" with a capital "C", but rather an incarnate King, the "bishop from without", who from his throne upholds Christian justice, and incarnate clerics, who offer the sacrifice of Christ on the altars.

This well-ordered order, of a union, which is not a fusion, of the throne and the altar, was delegated to all levels of society, from the Kingdom, to the parish, with its lord and its priest.

The state and the Church have always been separated in the Catholic world.

So what did the Republicans separate in 1905? Nothing.

It was a pretext to persecute the Church, and to finish uprooting all Christian power in the secular world.

Under the cover of this law of "separation", in practice we have witnessed a fusion of the republican State with the Masonic Church! In other words, a return to pre-Christian societies, under the guise of "modernization".

But better: under the cover of this law of "separation", in practice we have witnessed a fusion of the republican State with the Masonic Church!

In other words, a return to pre-Christian societies, under the guise of "modernization".

And this fusion is indisputable. The political leaders, members of parliament and other civil servants under the Third Republic were also Masons in a massive way: it is estimated that on average 70% of the members of parliament of the time were Masons.

Here we are, back in pagan antiquity, where the leader is also the priest, or the sacrificer. The natural social condition of humanity is the fusion of religion and state.

It is necessary to say it because the results of anthropology and the observation of history are clear: all societies, except the Catholic religion, present a fusion of the religious and the political. The so-called "primitive" societies studied by anthropology are a perfect example (think of the pre-Columbian Americas for example!).

The studies of René Girard, a Frenchman exiled to the United States because he could not work in republican France, showed well how the religious merged with the political to create a society composed of taboos and religious precepts, which are so many political laws, rites of passage, sacrifices, and superstitions.

Girard analyzed how societies face "mimetic crises,” violence generated at the bottom of society by the envy between men, by finding "scapegoats” upon whom to channel and pour out this violence. The punishment inflicted upon this victim, be it an individual or a group of individuals (the priest-king, the slaves, sacrificed foreigners, or anyone else), is totally unjust, but it is permitted in order to contain the violence that would otherwise tear apart society. Being that envy is the fulcrum upon which a democratic society turns, a society which puts everyone on the same level, it is clear that the contemporary world is merely a return to the primitive world!

Thus, honest and pious pagan societies push the logic as far as human sacrifices; those who are more indifferent ostracize, or abort, or wage war.

Only the Bible speaks of the history of a people - and not of the history of the gods - and only the Gospels do not pretend that the condemnation of Jesus Christ was just; He is the scapegoat, and He is the victim of injustice denounced as such, and not justified. This is the beginning of Christian societies, which put an end to slavery, and built fundamentally just and healthy institutions: marriage, courts, equity.

Girard then explains that Jesus Christ comes to put an end to this sacrificial logic of the scapegoat: Jesus is THE universal scapegoat, the lamb for our salvation, who puts an end to all bloody sacrifices and unjust lynching. Girard emphasizes that only the Gospels and the Bible are anti-mythical. The myths of the great civilizations speak of the gods, evoked in a veiled way in order to justify these mimetic crises and the practice of conciliatory lynchings. Only the Bible speaks of the history of a people - and not of the history of the gods - and only the Gospels do not pretend that the condemnation of Jesus Christ was just; He is the scapegoat, and He is the victim of injustice denounced as such, and not justified.

This is the beginning of Christian societies, which put an end to slavery, and built fundamentally just and healthy institutions: marriage, courts, equity.

Finally, let us emphasize that our contemporary time is a return to the undifferentiated pagan world. The Enemy wants us to believe that all revolutions and modernity are only political projects: not at all, they are new religions, often messianic, with their precepts and their taboos, based on the fusion of State and religion.

This fusion, moreover, is of an unstoppable logic: unlike with our Catholic faith, salvation must be brought to this earth, so the priests of this religion must also be politicians, since paradise must be realized on this earth, and it is indeed the state that realizes the common good that is confused with religious salvation.

Let us observe three examples clearly demonstrating the timeless universality of this fusion of state and religion:

1) The so-called primitive societies: the Mayans, the Aztecs, the other cannibalistic Caribbean peoples, the Pacific Islanders, etc., who for religious reasons, being animists, thought eating human flesh allowed them to appropriate the spirit and the virtue of their victims. All the missionaries testify to this, the ancient annals also testify to this practice among European tribal peoples (human sacrifices among the Celts, the Germans, the Slavs, etc). Myths still bear witness to this (and let's think of the Spartans, Romans and Greeks where the City was the God, and where declared enemies were regularly ostracized as scapegoats). Japan, where the emperor is also the sacrificer par excellence, and the head of all the Buddhist sects, in China too, where the emperor is above all the "son of heaven", etc.

So all pagan religions are based on the fusion of the religious and the political.

2. The heretical Judeo-Christian sects are also based on this fusion. The Jews, who are by definition those who refused Christ, founded the Talmudic religion, so-called rabbinic Judaism, between the first and third centuries. Here too, the religious and the political are fused. The ultimate ambition of the Jewish nation is its religious end: reconstruction of the temple, restoration of its temporal kingdom and domination over all peoples.

Islam and its sects, which are the result of an Arabizing hybridization with Judeo-Christian sects, also merges the religious and the political: the Caliph is both king and religious leader!

3. But so are the Protestants! Look: whatever the protestant sect, the religious and the political merge. From the beginning, the Protestant monarchs, like the Queen of England, become the religious leader, and the "clerics" become secularized, that is to say that the politicians become religious.

Today we are witnessing the end of the cycle: no more Christian essence to nourish the Christianized institutions; then these institutions disappear: the end of monogamous marriage, mass murder through abortion, contempt for the poor and the weak, the resurgence of an untouchable class, etc., etc.

Look at the American constitution and its temporal messianism: the foundational document of the federal state is religious!

This is also the origin of capitalism, another religion: temporal success is de facto a sign of religious success signifying that a person is one of the elect!

So, CQFD [ce qu'il fallait démontrer]. 

The Catholic religion is the exception that proves the rule: any society except the Catholic one merges the religious and the political!

And "modernization" is in fact only a "paganization" of society putting an end to the parenthesis of the Christianity which lasted nearly 1500 years in Western Europe. A long parenthesis, certainly, but an exceptional exception.

Today we are witnessing the end of the cycle: no more Christian essence to nourish the Christianized institutions; then these institutions disappear: the end of monogamous marriage, mass murder through abortion, contempt for the poor and the weak, the resurgence of an untouchable class, etc., etc.

We are thus living in a religious war. The revolution is superficially concerned with politics, but at its core is religious: if you want to fight it, you have to fight it at the same level, that is to say, with true religion.

The twentieth century conservatives were mistaken in this: they thought to rectify the situation with "politics" when what was necessary was the Catholic religion...

The tragedy of our modern time is to have taken advantage of the good fruits of Christianity, still there in spite of having cut the Christian roots: the revolution and modernity were thus able to attribute to themselves successes that were in fact only due to the Catholic substratum of the societies still alive, or to the secular Christian inertia that does not disappear so easily.

Take Covid, or the “novel coronavirus.” It is not so novel but is yet another manifestation of primitive religion. You have the shamans (the doctors), you have the taboos (mask, social distancing, etc), you have mimetic crises and precepts (confinement, testing, etc), you have your rite of passage with its physical risk that makes you an "adult" of this primitive society (the vaccine) and new untouchables (the non-vaccinated, excluded from normal society, from certain jobs, etc).

Today, these surviving fragments are almost extirpated: we are returning to primitive society!

Take a look! Take Covid, or the “novel coronavirus.”

It is not so novel but is yet another manifestation of primitive religion.

You have the shamans (the doctors), you have the taboos (mask, social distancing, etc), you have mimetic crises and precepts (confinement, testing, etc), you have your rite of passage with its physical risk that makes you an "adult" of this primitive society (the vaccine) and new untouchables (the non-vaccinated, excluded from normal society, from certain jobs, etc).

The voice of the leader is the law, no matter how false and erroneous it may be, as in pagan times.

Everything is there, but the best is yet to come...

For God and for the King!

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