"One can have a society without God,” writes Régis Debray, “but there cannot be a society without religion.” He adds, “Those nations on the way to di… - Alain de Benoist

"One can have a society without God,” writes Régis Debray, “but there cannot be a society without religion.” He adds, “Those nations on the way to disbelief are on the path to abdication.” One can also cite Georges Bataille, according to whom, “religion, whose essence is the search for lost intimacy, boils down to a clearly conscious effort to become entirely self-conscious.”

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About Alain de Benoist

Alain de Benoist (born 11 December 1943), also known as Fabrice Laroche, Robert de Herte, David Barney, and multiple dozen other pen names, is a French political philosopher and journalist, a founding member of the Nouvelle Droite (France's New Right), and the leader of the ethno-nationalist think tank GRECE.

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Alternative Names: Fabrice Laroche Cédric de Gentissard Robert de Herte Martial Laurent Tanguy Gallien Frédéric Laurent Pierre Dolabella Maxime Meyer Jean-Pierre Dujardin Frédéric Toulouze Jean-Louis Cartry Julien Valserre Pierre Jacob Pierre Carlet David Barney Jean-Pierre Hébert Maiastra G. Foumier Gilles Foumier Mortimer Davidson Mortimer G. Davidson Fabrice Valclérieux Éric Saint-Léger Éric Lecendreux Éric Dumesnil Bastien O'Danieli Walter Aubrig Alain Marie de Benoist
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As only God has an absolute value, everything that is not God can have only relative value. To be created means that one’s being is not due to oneself but to something other than oneself. This creates a perpetual sense of self-loss within one’s own state of unfulfillment. It means that one is not self-sufficient but a dependent being—one’s state of existence is caged from the start inside that dependency. Creation therefore does not posit man’s autonomy. It circumscribes it, and by virtue of this, in my opinion, invalidates it. Indeed, man has no right to enjoy this world except on condition of acknowledging that he is not its true owner but at best its steward. Yahweh alone is the owner of the world. “The earth belongs to me, and you are nothing but strangers and guests to my eyes” (Leviticus 25:23).

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Paganism therefore implies the rejection of this discontinuity, this rupture, this fundamental tear, which is the “dualistic fiction,” which, as Nietzsche wrote in The Antichrist, “degenerated God into the contradiction of life, instead of being its transfiguration and eternal Yes!

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