Revilo P. Oliver
495 words
Urbana, Illinois
31 July 1979
Dear Madame:
I am distressed to learn from your letter of the eleventh of the impairment of your sight by a cataract, which has always been the affliction that I most dread, and of the consequences of your effort to separate fighting cats. I know from experience that after an infection has been checked by antibiotics, it takes one a long time to recover from the penicillin or sulfa.
We are in entire agreement about Christianity. It is a virulent poison that has long infected and now seems likely to destroy our race; and, like the Black Death and the equally devastating plague in the time of the Antonines, it came from the biological rot of the mongrelized and predominantly Semitic population of the Near East, festering with Jews. It is a Judaized version of the Zoroastrian dualism, which, whatever the race of the man known as Zarathustra, came from the same source. I think you will be content with what I say about it in a book that may be published yet this year. It is amazing that our race should for so long have been subjected by a mythology that has as its central figure a composite of a number of Jewish agitators who peddled what is essentially a variety of Bolshevism in the First Century and who probably bore the extremely common name that becomes Jesus in English. I enclose a photocopy of my record copy of a letter I wrote three years ago on that subject.
The booklet Christianity and the Survival of the West was written for the short-lived National Youth Alliance when I still retained some hope that some “conservative” Christians might be mobilized to defend our race. I have given up that hope now, and that means that I now have little hope for our species. The Christian paralysis of the mind is a barrier that surrounds us. One of the very few men of our side of whose integrity, intelligence, and courage I have no doubt is the editor of an excellent little periodical[*] [1]; he says he does not dare to review Mr. Simpson’s book because so much of his support comes from persons who either believe the Christian myths or think the superstition socially indispensable. You quote in your Souvenirs et réflexions a comparable statement by poor Rockwell. And, what is even more detrimental to our cause, many quite intelligent men and women, who have repudiated the Christian myths, retain in their minds the Christian nonsense about “all mankind” and even some of the sentimentality that makes Christians dote on whatever is lowly, inferior, debased, deformed, and degenerate. It is impossible to reason with such persons (most of whom, I think, are amenable to reason) without exposing the source of the poisonous residue that Christianity has left in their minds.
With sincere admiration and every good wish,
Cordially,
Revilo P. Oliver
Note
[*] [2] Probably George P. Dietz, editor of Liberty Bell.