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WWI and the Second Fall of Man
ChristianConcepsDaily ^ | June 28th, 2014 | Paul Kengor

Posted on 06/27/2014 8:58:56 PM PDT by se99tp

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President Reagan's biographer on the tragedy of WWI: "The war not only permitted the cataclysm in Germany; it also enabled the fall of Czar Nicholas II in Russia. It’s difficult to imagine the Bolsheviks supplanting the Romanov dynasty without the intervention of WWI."
1 posted on 06/27/2014 8:58:56 PM PDT by se99tp
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To: kronos77; Bokababe; Ravnagora

Ping


2 posted on 06/27/2014 9:03:24 PM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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To: lightman

Thanks for the ping, Lightman.


3 posted on 06/27/2014 9:06:46 PM PDT by Ravnagora
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To: se99tp

100 years later, the eve of the next conflagration....


4 posted on 06/27/2014 9:10:32 PM PDT by clintonh8r (Can Juan Williams possibly be that stupid?)
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To: se99tp

You know, never until this moment did I realize the wife had been killed too. Very true about Russia.


5 posted on 06/27/2014 9:18:50 PM PDT by jocon307 (These people are (some Polish word) crazy)
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It’s hard to put WWI in descriptive enough terms to explain it’s place in history. Pivotal might be as close as you can get.

WWI for all practical purposes wiped the European system of monarchy off the map and paved the way for the secular nation states we see today. It helped unleash communism that brought left wing ideology out from academia and into the seat of power.

This after centuries of Christian domination of Europe in both it’s thinking and politics that produced high European civilization of legend. Everything was just wiped off the slate, and what it unleashed meant the world would never be the same.

We are still living with it’s effects today, and will likely do so for generations. The consequences of it are the gift that keeps on giving, and generally not for the good. It’s still debatable whether it might be the trigger that ultimately brings down Western civilization.


6 posted on 06/27/2014 9:36:11 PM PDT by Free Vulcan (Vote Republican! You can vote Democrat when you're dead...)
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To: se99tp

I just went back and read the piece, very good. I wish they gave a credit for the picture they used. I also wish the piece was longer, and how often does one say that?

Thanks for posting this, I hope a lot of people read it!


7 posted on 06/27/2014 9:38:00 PM PDT by jocon307 (These people are (some Polish word) crazy)
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The war not only permitted the cataclysm in Germany; it also enabled the fall of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.

As well as the end of the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire.

8 posted on 06/27/2014 9:47:47 PM PDT by iowamark (I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy)
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To: se99tp

In Orthodox Christian thought “the one who restrains” who must be removed before the (last great) Antichrist can be revealed was the Emperor — be it the Roman Augusti (as the Emperors East and West were called from Diocletians reforms until the Empire fell in 1453) or their successors, the Tsars.

World War I and its aftermath swept aside every possible claimant to the Imperial Throne of Rome: the Tsars of Moscow, the “Third Rome”; the Kaisers, successor to the “Holy Roman Emperors” following on Charlemagne’s attempt to revive the office of Western Augustus; and the Ottoman Sultans, who, when it suited them, styled themselves as Muslim Roman Emperors, ruling from Constantinople (it was only Ataturk’s Turkish Republic which formally changed the name of the city to the popular Turkish nickname “Istanbul” — a corruption of the Greek eis ten politas).


9 posted on 06/27/2014 9:47:55 PM PDT by The_Reader_David (And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know...)
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To: se99tp

Hilaire Beloc in Europe and the Faith http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8442 informs us that the Junkers were essentially atheistic, a bridge between the anti-Christian Kulturkampf of Otto von Bismarck and the neo-paganism of the Nazis.


10 posted on 06/27/2014 9:48:34 PM PDT by CharlesOConnell (CharlesOConnell)
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To: se99tp

Bump.


11 posted on 06/27/2014 10:09:26 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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The assassination was not considered a very big deal at the time it happened. It was the Austro-Hungarian Foreign Minister Berchtold who ginned up all of the problems with his impossible demands.

I have no idea why the dude wasn’t shot by Emperor Franz Joseph after the war went south - Berchtold was allowed to “retire” and lived on.

A really good read about all of the political missteps leading up to the actual start of the war is a book called “The Sleepwalkers” ...


12 posted on 06/27/2014 10:16:05 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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As well as the end of the Hapsburg Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Yes, and don't forget who was a decisive figure in this destruction: U.S. President Woodrow Wilson. We rightly complain that he was the first progressive "dictocrat" president here at home, but his foreign meddling after the war helped set the stage for WW II. He did this largely by pursuing the calamitous policy of destroying the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Although he did this in cahoots with the French, he was still one of the major drivers of this insane policy. In breaking up A-H, he created the little states that Hitler was able to occupy one by one in the run-up to WW II.

13 posted on 06/27/2014 11:18:28 PM PDT by ishmac (Lady Thatcher: There are no permanent defeats in politics because there are no permanent victories.)
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It was a disastrously wasteful affair that Pope Benedict XV publicly declared an unjust war, a mad form of collective European suicide.

It didn't have to happen, and it seems ridiculous in hindsight, but regardless - it did occur.

14 posted on 06/27/2014 11:46:02 PM PDT by PGR88
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Europe never fully recovered from essentially losing an entire generation of her best young men.


15 posted on 06/28/2014 12:03:29 AM PDT by dfwgator
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“In breaking up A-H, he created the little states that Hitler was able to occupy one by one in the run-up to WW II.”

Austria-Hungary was destined to fail; while Austria and Hungary could have stayed together, there was no way so many different ethnic and religious minorities were going to be ruled by foreigners from the north. The number of languages spoken alone made it impractical.


16 posted on 06/28/2014 3:01:53 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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“... Woodrow Wilson. We rightly complain that he was the first progressive “dictocrat” president here at home...”

“Dictocrat”!! You’ve coined a new word, my FRiend! And how it applies to our current Tnediserp in the WH.

FWIW I stumbled upon an article about the 100th anniversary of Sarajevo. In that same city on this day, Bosnian Serbs are dedicating a statue to the assassin Gavrilo Prinzip! A reenactor of Prinzip fires a pistol into the air, TWICE, to commemorate the murders of the Archduke and his wife.

They want the Serb portion of Bosnia annexed to Serbia. What a sick way to frame their demand.

I’m mostly Slovenian and I day, how typical of the Serbs.


17 posted on 06/28/2014 3:57:26 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: elcid1970

“day” = “say”


18 posted on 06/28/2014 3:58:29 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: se99tp

ping


19 posted on 06/28/2014 4:31:33 AM PDT by gattaca (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecclesiastes10:2)
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To: The_Reader_David; Free Vulcan

The fabricated nation of Iraq with all of its turmoil, past and present, is part of the legacy of the “Great War”.

It certainly did not end all wars!


20 posted on 06/28/2014 6:31:47 AM PDT by lightman (O Lord, save Thy people and bless Thine inheritance, giving to Thy Church vict'ry o'er Her enemies.)
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