Yesterday I wrote with reference to Dennis Prager’s article regarding the response of organized religion to the Covid Regime: COVID-19 and the Failure of America’s Major Religions. Prager’s basic point was to criticize America’s “Major Religions” for, generally speaking, complying in servile fashion with government edicts—usually framed as public health emergency rules rather than specific laws—that prevented religious from freely exercising their rights to worship. The same has held true throughout much of the West as well as with regard to mandated injections that religious believers object to on conscience grounds.
**Hungary under Orbán rejects the illusion of liberal neutrality, recognizing, as this column has previously phrased it, "that a values-neutral liberal order amounts to a one-way cultural ratchet" toward leftism and progressivism.**
As euroskeptical Hungary and other like-minded Central and Eastern European nations, such as Poland, have learned all too well, it is impotent to defensively plead "live and let live"-style tolerance from imperious liberal European Union overlords in Berlin and Brussels. Rather, the only way for traditionalist nations like Hungary and Poland to push back against the EU's progressive, globalist vision of the good, the true and the beautiful is by offering an affirmative counter in the form of its own conservative, nationalist vision of the good, the true and the beautiful.
I am so pleasantly surprised to find this quality of writing - so beautifully expressed - and this objectivity in Newsweek. Kudos to Mr. Hammer and his editor.
An accurate portrayal of Orban has been much needed as he and his supporters are at the crux of the conflict between traditional nationalist, Christian values in Europe and the antithetical values of the EU.
This makes me wish I could somehow qualify for Hungarian citizenship by ancestry. On top of the current ideological compatibility, Budapest is just a gem of a city. I visited there a couple of times not long after Communism fell and you could feel the spirit of the people, newly awakened and animated by freedom and hope. It is gratifying to see how that spirit has evolved over all these years. God bless Mr. Orban and his supporters.
Mark I suspect you have seen this. It mirrors your views and is very good. For those who have not:
https://amgreatness.com/2022/02/17/prodigal-church-prodigal-nation/
https://www.newsweek.com/view-budapest-opinion-1680433
**Hungary under Orbán rejects the illusion of liberal neutrality, recognizing, as this column has previously phrased it, "that a values-neutral liberal order amounts to a one-way cultural ratchet" toward leftism and progressivism.**
As euroskeptical Hungary and other like-minded Central and Eastern European nations, such as Poland, have learned all too well, it is impotent to defensively plead "live and let live"-style tolerance from imperious liberal European Union overlords in Berlin and Brussels. Rather, the only way for traditionalist nations like Hungary and Poland to push back against the EU's progressive, globalist vision of the good, the true and the beautiful is by offering an affirmative counter in the form of its own conservative, nationalist vision of the good, the true and the beautiful.
I am so pleasantly surprised to find this quality of writing - so beautifully expressed - and this objectivity in Newsweek. Kudos to Mr. Hammer and his editor.
An accurate portrayal of Orban has been much needed as he and his supporters are at the crux of the conflict between traditional nationalist, Christian values in Europe and the antithetical values of the EU.
This makes me wish I could somehow qualify for Hungarian citizenship by ancestry. On top of the current ideological compatibility, Budapest is just a gem of a city. I visited there a couple of times not long after Communism fell and you could feel the spirit of the people, newly awakened and animated by freedom and hope. It is gratifying to see how that spirit has evolved over all these years. God bless Mr. Orban and his supporters.