Paradise and Utopia

Fr. John Strickland, and Ancient Faith Ministries
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Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom

  1. 10 Jun

    From Utopia to Dystopia III: How Atheistic Existentialism Countered Saint Siluoan's "My Brother Is My Life" with Sartre's "Hell Is Other People"

    In this episode, Fr. John discusses the once popular philosophical movement known as Existentialism, and the way in which one of its leaders, Albert Camus, broke from others in a search for transcendent Truth.

  2. 3 Apr

    From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft

    In this episode, Fr. John describes how ideological world building created not only a hard totalitarianism in the Communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union, but a perceivable "soft" totalitarianism in the liberal democracy of Cold War Western Europe and America.

  3. 9 Jan

    From Utopia to Dystopia I: How Christians Like C.S. Lewis Saw Nihilism for What It Was

    In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John tells how traditional Christianity provided certain critics of ideological world-building with a new way of seeing the West.

  4. 05/12/2025

    Liberal World-Building II: American Anticommunism in the 1950s

    In this episode, Fr. John describes the anticommunist character of liberalism in America during the Cold War, noting how in its promotion of individual rights it accommodated and even emphasized religious belief, but did so conditionally.

  5. 14/11/2025

    Liberal World Building I: When J.S. Mill met Friedrich Nietzsche

    In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John looks at the origins of the main rival to the world-Building ideologies of Communism and Nazis, American liberalism.

  6. 31/10/2025

    Nazi World-Building III: The War of Annihilation

    In this final episode on Nazi Germany, Fr. John discusses the unparalleled nihilism of Hitler's "new order" for the West during World War II, a racist utopia grounded in a secular ideology.

  7. 19/09/2025

    Nazi World-Building II: The Project of Cultural Coordination

    In this episode, Fr. John describes how the Nazis, once in power, pursued a culture war against existing German values and beliefs by attacking Christianity, advancing neopaganism, and elaborating a racist utopia.

  8. 29/08/2025

    Nazi World-Building I: When Nietzsche met Darwin in Hitler's Mind

    In this episode, Fr. John launches into the darkest period of the age of nihilism, Nazi Germany. In it, he explores the conditions of Western culture following the First World War and how they subverted both traditional Christianity and secular humanism. He concludes with a review of the ideological mythology contained in Hitler's Mein Kampf.

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Reflections on the Rise and Fall of Christendom

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  • Creator
    Fr. John Strickland, and Ancient Faith Ministries
  • Years Active
    2013 - 2026
  • Episodes
    127
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Ancient Faith Ministries
  • Show Website
    Paradise and Utopia

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