What went wrong with the West and what can we do?

One of the symptoms of our decline is the failing of our families. Many people don't marry at all, don't select their partner(s) carefully for their marital quality or obtain divorce on a whim. Too few children get born and those who do get born, often get raised by single parents or in dysfunctional households. People give having fun top priority in their lives, and reproduction seems to happen more or less randomly.

It has been opined before by some that the decline of organized religion caused this mess and a return to it could cure it. This was countered by the observation that nations with deeply rooted Catholicism, like Poland or Hungary, have a particularly appallingly low fertility rate. However, it can't be denied that religion does have an influence on how people live, Islam is an example.

I am a lifelong atheist myself and couldn't believe in God if I tried. But organized religion is more than just the faith in a supernatural entity, it consists of other beliefs and practices, too. Islam is notorious for setting strict rules for every aspect of life for its adherents to live according to. It is because of these rules that muslims choose their partners among themselves and that they don't practice contraception. (At least they shouldn't, according to the stricter interpretations of Islam) These rules "work" insofar that even in the absence of government enforcing them Islam thrives and its adherents multiply in numbers. Judging by its spread, the rules of Islam are quite successful.

Christianity used to have such rules, too. Pre- and extra-marital sex and contraception used to be forbidden according to the rules set by religion. I read once, that some centuries ago in a part of Germany even marrying a partner of a different religious persuasion was condemned of by the Church. Even if these were not enforced by government, the mere fact that the Church condemned it, had an affect on the moral behavior of the people.

I am not an insider, but from the outside it looks to me as if nowadays Christianity is almost completely reduced to the faith in God. Moral rules concerning reproductive behavior are not taken seriously anymore and community members are not ostracized for violating them. Therefore, to those of us, who don't believe in God, religion seems to serve no useful purpose. But maybe organized religion could serve a purpose, if it devised rules which fit into our time and address the problems we have, and if it took these rules seriously and tried its best to enforce them within the community?

I was born to atheist parents who did not try to impose any moral rules concerning reproduction on me or influence me in any other way. It was completely up to me to decide on how to live and what to do with my life. I am under the impression that, at least in my country, most people grow up in that way. No wonder that they rarely have children - nobody told them to, nor to submit to any rules at all interfering with what is generally taken for granted as to be the primary purpose of life: To have fun. Children are an inconvenience and even though the government helps in coping with the financial burden, people often don't want any in the first place.

What can we do? We seek political power, we strive to influence the governments of our countries in order to change the law and enforce different rules. But as we don't have any such political power now and, quite possibly, not get any in near future, maybe we should at least try to live and enforce rules, which we deem necessary for our survival, among ourselves? Maybe it sounds cranky, but I, being an atheist, want to suggest us creating an organized religion, a new one, not centered around or insisting in any belief in supernatural entities, but as a community developing and implementing a strategy for our survival as a group, consisting of rules which we try to adhere to and enforce among ourselves as far as this is possible without the power of a government. Other ethnic or religious groups have survived over centuries as separate minorities without becoming extinct, and as we now face the prospect of quickly becoming a minority in our own countries, too, shouldn't we at least try to adjust our habits and possibly get ourselves organized into a religious community?

Such a community could not only reinforce our shared commitment to survive as a group, but also teach people on what we believe is important, on how to go about life and assist them in it. Naturally, the creation and upbringing of the next generation must be our ultimate concern. Whenever financial difficulties are a problem, wealthy community members could volunteer to help out poor ones, for the common purpose. I have no experience of organized religion myself, and maybe I am silly for thinking that such a community could be held together, even without a common faith in God. But it seems to me that it would help greatly, if we overcame our relative individualism compared to other people and acted together in a communal way. If it is possible to make people pray in a mosque five times a day, even without a government enforcing it, why shouldn't it be possible to make people have enough children, too?

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The Church of Eugenics is a proposed religious congregation for any ethnic group with the aim to breed a future generation according to eugenic principles. It does not preach any supernatural or metaphysical doctrines, but a lifestyle dedicated to breeding capable people in sufficient numbers for sustaining its ethnic groups as separate peoples, and to eventually give rise to an age where these people live separate from, but in peace with each other in separate territories.

The Church seeks converts in general, but a parish can reject a willing convert.

Members are expected to make regular donations, according to their financial capability. According to their donations, they will be ranked. The highest ranked will be honored.

Regular donations are spent on breeding and the education of the community's children.

Irregular donations can be for any purpose, e.g. supporting dependent members. Donors will be mentioned and honored by the community.

The expenses on breeding and the education of the community's children are spent according to the value of the child. The most promising children receive the highest expenses. The community also sets a lower limit to the worthiness of breeding at all.

Children who are bred against the recommendation of the community are not accepted as the community's children, not supported and the responsible members ostracized.

There are two kinds of members: Children of the community, meaning that these children were born by community members in compliance with the eugenic principles. The community spends money from regular donations for raising them and for paying for their education. This money is lent to them on a credit basis, eventually to be repaid back to the community when the child earns money.

Other members can't receive any financial support paid for by regular donations. However, on an individual basis they can ask members for direct, irregular donations, directly paid to them.

Breeding stock: Possible mates are ranked according to their pedigree and their current capabilities, their capability as parents and their education. Conscientiousness, ability to defer gratification.

Scholarship is highly valued.

New entrants, defectors: Everybody can join. However, members with discernible different ethnic identity must not mate with each other, in order to prevent subversion of the community. Children of the community could defect, but they would be readmitted, if so desired.

Every member is expected to keep a pedigree of himself, as detailed as possible.

In case of infertility of one partner, there can be divorce. Polygyny is discouraged, but can, in principle, be possible.

Clarification

Ok, my somewhat muddled thoughts have finally cleared up a bit.

Some points about the Church (community, Landsmannschaft):

1. mutual assistance of members in career-advancement and everything else, networking - but all transfers of money are voluntary. but are made known among everybody else so that great benefactors receive the honor which they deserve. financial support of unproductive dependents (sick, poor) is possible, but there should be little emphasize on it, because this is a eugenic Church and money will be in short supply
2. every member should be pressed to keep his or her pedigree, incl. (measured) intelligence, character traits, clearance certificate and, of course, job history of the ancestors, so that the genetic value can be assessed
3. advice and assistance in the search for a mate, with good genetic code
4. members should be particularly urged (as an important community project) to financially support the birth of good children, with good genetic code and their good education (university), wherever necessary and possible. again donors should receive their honor, should be praised.
5. common activism (political or personal) to combat leucophobia, influence government policies etc.
6. practicing and teaching the common culture

when, for example, somebody finds that he does not want more than a certain number of children (or none at all), but has money left over, then he can still donate for others to have good children. same goes for the unfit. sometimes there are people who earn sufficient money but are nonetheless genetically unfit and should not reproduce. but they can help others to do so

having children in violation of eugenic principles should be condemned, members who do so, ostracized. it should be taught that romantic love must not enjoy the top priority for reproductive partnerships which it has today. of course, mates should love each other, but people should make certain to date suitable mates only

How a Church of Eugenics could help our peoples to survive in an adverse environment

The ethnic peoples of the West - the White nations - are in gravest danger of extinction. The governments of their own countries are hostile against them now, because they are driven by anti-White sentiment carried by Whites. At some time in the future the remaining Whites will overcome their suicidal tendencies, but by then they will most likely be in the minority, and the governments of their countries will be influenced mostly by the aliens who will, by then, be in the majority. Thus, the government's action will, by then, possibly still be driven by anti-White sentiment, but almost certainly not be supportive to our cause. For this reason we need a strategy to survive as a separate people even in an adverse environment. We need an "evolutionary group strategy", as Kevin B. MacDonald put it, and, in the absence of a government to enforce it for us, we need to try our best to make people adhere to it with whatever punitive measures that are at our disposal.

I am a lifelong atheist, but now I turn to religion for this purpose. I don't mean religion as worship of god, but as a congregation providing guidance and structure in life to normal, ordinary people. Not everybody can be an intellectual and learn how to live according to the group strategy on his own, most are quite occupied making their ends meet. The existing organized religions provide a pattern for congregations of such ordinary people. They make them listen to and contemplate over a sermon, which provides them with guidance on how to live according to the group strategy, and they foster the unity between the people. They are headed by dedicated experts about the subject who teach, train and advise their community. The community can exert social pressure on people disregarding or violating the rules, it can attract them, support them, but also exclude them, when this is deemed necessary.

What about Christianity, the most widespread religion among White people? Obviously Christianity will contradict the aims and means of our Church in many ways. For example, as far as I know, most organized Christianity condemns eugenics. Therefore Christians would either have to give up their Christian religion or neglect parts of it, if they want to be with us. I believe, that in our times, Christianity has outlived its usefulness, particularly in its ethical teachings. [1] However, as White people with a long Christian history and a rich Christian heritage it is natural for us to cherish our heritage.

Our Church would thus have some attributes of a state within a state. The government, with its monopoly on physical violence, has much more powerful measures at its disposal. Therefore, the entirety of one people following the religion, should strive to influence the government, and, when the opportunity arises, take it over. For government affairs different policies are possible and advisable than within our Church. But as long as we have not taken over the government yet, their implementation will be impossible for us. Therefore we will implement our Church policies within our group only, and this will hopefully accomplish our survival.

Of course, the prototype for this Church is the way how the Jews survived about 2000 years of living in the diaspora as a separate people, often under adverse conditions, and thrived during it. The emancipation of the Jews threatened their existence as a separate group through assimilation, but they have withstood this threat for a long time now. In the meantime, their struggle to create a state for their own, dedicated to and dominated by the Jews, was successful. In fact, the whole Zionist movement provides us with plenty of ideas and guidance on how to act.

Our Church could and probably would contain several ethnically distinct peoples, who remain separate but nevertheless pursue a common goal. The dangers we face are all alike and so are the counter-methods to apply and the group strategy to develop, so we can all learn from and support each other. Thus different ethnic groups make up one religious organization of eugenics together, with the purpose to eventually create several, ethnically homogeneous, nation-states. By doing so we not only save ourselves, but make it possible for us to assist other peoples, too, and lead them to an age of peace and well-being for the whole of mankind.

In the following I will outline some elements of our common group strategy. Once again I stress the point that our Church will be open for people of many different ethnic groups, also newly founded groups, but in the following I will explain our group strategy from the point of view of one of these groups. At first I am going to establish who belongs to us and who doesn't. In order to achieve the desired eugenic success, we must pay careful attention to the quality of our breeding stock and in particular about its ethnic belonging. This is in line with the policy of Judaism. We do not seek new entrants to our breeding stock, but in rare cases it will be advisable to accept them. In these cases, rapid miscegenation will have to be required of them in order to prevent the forming of a different and therefore separate and divisive group within the ethnic group.

People, who can't become part of our breeding stock, can still be members. This extends naturally to all descendants of our group, but can extend to sympathizers to our cause, too. Members of our Church are required to scrupulously adhere to our rules, but, as they are human, it would be unrealistic to expect full compliance. But even partial compliance serves our cause much better than no compliance, thus we must take care not to alienate them. We must always take care to attract our people to our cause.

Why would people be attracted to join our Church in the first place? What advantages and benefits do they derive from it? First, there is, of course, the benefit of providing a meaning to one's life. Just wasting one's life in mundane pleasures and then dying out is unsatisfactory to many people. But there is a very concrete economic advantage, too: Mutual assistance and a safety net. The community will support members, who, by no fault of their own, become dependent. Furthermore, there can be mutual help between members in advancing their careers or creating business ties. If the Church succeeds in its aim to create an improved race with superior capabilities, its members are to be expected to be, on average, higher-performing and therefore being able to contribute more financial means to the community. As examples for already existing communities achieving these aims one could cite the fraternities, who serve as networks for career-advancement.

In order for eugenics to improve on a population of a country, two objectives must be achieved: First, the unfit must be stopped from reproducing, second, the fit must be made to reproduce. Our current societies fail in both respects, and without recourse to force - which only the government can do - it will be difficult to achieve these aims. The Church can't stop unfit people from reproducing, because they can always defect and thus escape any punishment. But a community of fit members willing to reproduce can produce an association which to belong to will be beneficial to its members and thus prevent them from defecting and allowing for influencing their behavior with incentives and disincentives. The more capable children the members of a community have together, the more financial means will they contribute to the community's safety net later in their life and the more useful will the community be as a network. The benefit derivable from the community must depend on the reproductive contribution to the community, by the number and performing quality of one's children. The community thus resembles an extended family, which is so large that members can marry far relatives without an increased danger of their children contracting hereditary diseases.

...to be continued

[1] see also: "Christian Ethics - to be or not to be?" by ConservativeSwede