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Paganism sacralizes and thereby exalts this world whereas Judeo-Christian monotheism sanctifies and thereby retreats from this world. Paganism is based on the idea of the sacred.

— Alain de Benoist On Being a Pagan (2004)

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Modernity proclaims rights without in any way providing the means to exercise them.

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In reality, as their theological roots demonstrate, human rights are only law contaminated by morality.

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