John’s Day and the Decline of Tradition By James Reed and Arnis Luks

     June 24 is “Midsummer” (mid winter in the southern hemisphere) or St. John’s Day, the feast celebrating the nativity of St. John the Baptist.
St. John, the precursor to Christ, was proclaiming that one far greater than he is coming and would fulfill the prophecies. The New Testament reveals that John was beheaded by order of Herod, who acted while drunk at the request of the dancer Salome, whose mother advised her to ask for John’s head on a platter. The Jewish historian Josephus in his Antiquities of the Jews, has a less romantic hypothesis: Herod saw John as a potential problem for rebellion, so had him executed.

     For the early Christians, one false move could lead to arrest, or even execution - fed to the legal lions.  THE LAW then, and more so each day now, causes everyone to shake in their boots.  The politically correct ideologies of today for example, now extends human rights protections for transgender Canadians on the federal level (Bill C16) — failing to be correctly addressed (gender expression and gender identity) as a hate crime.
These doctrines serve the interests of the elites, just as the elites of Rome had their own interests in their day. What is significant is that Rome fell. Rome, like Greece before it, became decadent, both in morals and economics. There is considerable scholarly debate about exactly why Rome fell, the correct mixture of social poisons that destroyed it, but it is clear, that whatever factors led to its fall, the West has it many thousands of times greater. Probably only technology and the last drops of economic growth hold the system together.

     The fight for the survival of the West – which translates into the survival of Western European rather than some superficial expression of it such as the economy – is now in full swing. The enemy is well advanced firing its ideological shells, which have been exploding at least since the 1960s, producing massive causalities on our side, with the present “Human Rights Commission”, “safe schools program” and “gender mania,” for example, being regarded as sufficient to collapse Western civilisation alone, regardless of every other problem. Only in the last year or so, has there been something of a fight back.

     John lost his head believing in the right and speaking against the wrong. I hope that the men of the West still have enough manhood left to do what is necessary.