Paradise and Utopia

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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. 04/07/2025

    Communist World Building III: The Great Terror

    In this final episode dealing with the Soviet Union under Stalin, Fr. John narrates one of the most chilling episodes in the ideological project to apply the transformation-imperative to a nihilistic, post-Christian Christendom.

  7. 27/06/2025

    Communist World-Building II: Realized Ideological Eschatology

    Father John continues his account of the Soviet Union's totalitarian project of building socialism by contrasting its nihilistic ideology with the sacramental experience of traditional Christianity.

  8. 30/05/2025

    Communist World-Building I: The Revolution from Above

    In this episode, Fr. John begins a discussion of ideological world-building during the twentieth-century age of nihilism. The Communist leadership of the Soviet Union under Stalin drew on the philosophies of both Marx and Nietzsche to advance a terrifying counterfeit of the transformation-imperative in ancient Christian cosmology.

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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 - 2025
  • Episodes
    124
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © Ancient Faith Ministries
  • Show Website
    Paradise and Utopia

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