“Everybody suffers from Multiculturalism, because Multiculturalism is no culture, it means that there is nothing to be loyal to, nothing to belong to. Any culture that wants to survive has to have an agreed culture and a common language.”
Peter Hitchens
🧵How the U.S. Got Its Name🧵
During the American Revolution, the rebelling colonies referred to themselves as the United Colonies. Before 1776, other names include “Twelve United English Colonies of North America”, “United Colonies of North America”, and more.
"If foreigners were allowed to meddle with the affairs of a nation as soon as they settled down in its midst, many dangers might occur, since the foreigners not yet having the common good firmly at heart might attempt something hurtful to the people."
-St. Thomas Aquinas
The Catholic Church has been consistently AGAINST divorce and separation for 2000 years.
Marriage is not a wedding day, it is a death. The death of the isolated self. The death of the idea that your life belongs only to you. Before God, two people walk forward and allow themselves to be bound together, not with flowers or words, but with sacrifice. The same love that held Christ on the Cross was not soft. Iron tore through flesh and pinned Him to the wood, and He did not pull away. That is the image people do not want to see when they talk about love. Love costs blood.
Love costs pride. Love costs the part of you that wants to run when things hurt. When a man and a woman become one flesh, it is not sentimental language. It is a joining that says, your suffering is now mine, your burdens are now mine, your future is now mine. You do not stand beside each other as spectators. You are fastened together and sent into battle. The world you raise children in will not be gentle. It will test you, divide you, try to convince you that commitment is a mistake and sacrifice is weakness. Marriage answers that lie with defiance. You stay. You endure. You forgive when it would be easier to walk away. You carry each other when one collapses.
The vows are not promises made for the good days. They are spoken for the nights when everything feels broken and you choose each other anyway. This is why marriage is sacred. Not because it is easy, but because it mirrors something eternal.
Christ did not abandon His bride when she failed Him. He stayed nailed there. So when you stand before God and bind your life to another, understand what you are stepping into.
You are choosing covenant over comfort. You are choosing unity over ego.
Catholic Weddings are auraful.
The Early Modern Era is egregiously under explored and underrated as a basis for fantasy. The 16th and 17th century where you had firearms, fielded alongside fully armored Calvary like the Hussars, noble Cavaliers, musketeers, and men carrying Zweihanders are so full of things to draw from that so few do.
Mark my words: the day will soon come when you will wish in vain for men of my way of thinking.
– Titus Livius (Ab Urbe Condita: The Early History of Rome)
“The safety of a republic depends essentially on the energy of a common national sentiment; on uniformity of principles & habits; exemption of citizens from foreign bias & prejudice; & that love of country... closely connected with birth, education & family.” — Alexander Hamilton
Famed Harvard poli scientist Sam P. Huntington has helpful chapters in “Who Are We?”
SCOTUS, 1811 & 1931: “We are a Christian people”
Senate, 1853: “We are a Christian people”
Lincoln: “a Christian ppl”
SCOTUS, 1892: “This is a Christian nation”
House, 1908: “a Christian nation”
"Like the individual, the nation is the outcome of a long past of efforts, sacrifices, and devotions. Of all forms of worship, that of the ancestors is the most legitimate; our ancestors have made us what we are."
- Ernest Renan, What Is a Nation?