Reviving Christendom
St. Augustine of Hippo (354-430), who was the greatest Christian philosopher of antiquity and certainly the one who exerted the deepest and most lasting influence, maintained that a Christian state is the only type of state where true justice can be achieved. This is because, in such a state, the body politic would rule according to Christian tenets and values, which would align the state’s laws with divine law.
Writing after Christianity was proclaimed as the official religion of the Roman Empire by the Emperor Theodosius I in 380, he said: “Were our [Christian] religion listened to as it deserves, it would establish, consecrate, strengthen, and enlarge the commonwealth in a way beyond all that Romulus, Numa, Brutus, and all the other men of renown in Roman history achieved.”
In a congenial manner, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, in his address at Hungary’s 2025 Conservative Political Action Conference a week ago, denounced the agenda of left-wing protagonists who are actively working to “replace Christianity and the nation” in Western society.
My friends, two plans are on the table. One is the liberal plan, and the other is the patriotic plan for Europe. The liberal plan sees the old, cultural, Christian Europe as obsolete. They want to move beyond it. For decades, they have been working to fabric
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