Towards a Theology of Survival

Has coexistence become the orthodoxy of the West? asks the author. Are we prepared to make peace with the barbarians?

Our aging civilization, hurried on by the angel of death, seems bent upon holocaust and oblivion. The full meaning of November 3, 1964, may never be known to us on this side of history but one ominous truth, a fixed and awful face, is glaring down upon the West and we would be fools were we to fail to look and see what is written there for us to read. The West, sickened in comfort and diseased in doubt, has unleashed its sword and is about to hand it over to the enemy, blade in palm and hilt outstretched. We have lost faith in the power of justice to conquer evil and we are thus disposed to make our peace with barbarism. I can see no other meaning to the politics of co-existence and to the banner of cowardice upon which are written the words, “peace and prosperity.”

FW

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Frederick D. Wilhelmsen

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Has coexistence become the orthodoxy of the West? asks the author. Are we prepared to make peace with the barbarians?

Our aging civilization, hurried on by the angel of death, seems bent upon holocaust and oblivion. The full meaning of November 3, 1964, may never be known to us on this side of history but one ominous truth, a fixed and awful face, is glaring down upon the West and we would be fools were we to fail to look and see what is written there for us to read. The West, sickened in comfort and diseased in doubt, has unleashed its sword and is about to hand it over to the enemy, blade in palm and hilt outstretched. We have lost faith in the power of justice to conquer evil and we are thus disposed to make our peace with barbarism. I can see no other meaning to the politics of co-existence and to the banner of cowardice upon which are written the words, “peace and prosperity.”