After the coronation of Charles the Great, also named Charlemagne, as the Roman Emperor of the West, a strange and wonderful thing happened:
Not just in the Carolingian realm, but in all Western Europe, civilized society, as embodied in every major institution, was aimed toward a purpose, namely, to conform the laws and customs to the purest and highest virtues that can be envisioned, namely, Christian virtues. This is the international social order fitliest called Christendom.
This period, misnamed by Petrarch as “the Dark Ages,” was contrariwise the single period of greatest enlightenment in European history. Our current period under this present darkness, these ages, these are the true dark ages.
All of our current society, as embodied in every major institution, are likewise aimed toward a purpose, but a far less noble one. The purpose is the opposite of Christendom. It is Antichristendom. The purpose is to conform the current laws and customs to the most hypocritical, perverse, and most wicked vices that benightedness can produce.
The purpose is falsehood.
Our age ventures to destroy civil order, to denature man, to defame heaven, and to establish and maintain an Empire of Lies. For our age is devout toward unreality, and worships untruth. Every major institution is fraudulent, fake, and false.
Ours is an age is afflicted with a vision of blindness.
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