Defiling Consecrated Ground
This year, 2025, marks 1,250 years of the German region of Westphalia, the place where a celebrated treaty was signed in 1648 which laid the legal foundations of the modern nation state. Ours is now an age of globalists, however, at least on the EU-governed continent of mainland Europe, where, at the behest of the little people’s political “betters,” all expressions of traditional national and civilizational identities are to be systematically dismantled from above—particularly that of Christianity.
This is how we ended up with a recent farcical display being staged within the (formerly) hallowed halls of Paderborn Cathedral. On May 15, a secular ceremony of thanksgiving was allowed by the area’s Catholic archbishop, Udo Markus Bentz, to be staged—seemingly without him having checked up on its content properly beforehand. While German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier stood at the pulpit and spoke of the need for “spatial and temporal orientation” in an age of profound spatial and temporal disorientation—which liberal politicians like him had helped unleash onto the world in the first place—it seems these words were insincere, at least to judge by what followed next.
A German performance-artist group, Bodytalk, presented an extract from their musical Westphalia-Side Story, a piece of left-wing, environmentalist-related agitprop which, according to their website, bemoans how the rural portion of the region “sometimes seems like the home of the Hobbits from The Lord of the Rings” (i.e., white, conservative, German Christians).
However, in the modern, globalist era of EU-facilitated mass immigration, demographic and cultural differences between conservatives, liberals, and immigrants will have to be ironed out somehow, which is why the musical possessed “the leitmotif of ‘Flowing Borders,’” aiming to get rural and urban areas to know one another better via the medium of song and dance. Far from being a bastion of stolid religious illiberalism, why not instead rebrand the countryside from a more “global perspective” as a potential hotbed of “animal welfare” and “sustainability,” whose farmers could shift away from their traditional role of creating
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