A Brief Review: The Camp of the Saints

And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Revelation 20:9

I recently finished reading Jean Raspail’s The Camp of the Saints. It’s prohibitively priced in print form, but is available in a free 1975 online English translation by Norman Shapiro. I highly recommend it to all our readers with a few caveats. The language and subject matter are vulgar and profane throughout, but, then again, what’s being done to Western Christian Civilization via the Kalergi Plan in warp drive is, to understate it, vulgar and profane! Monsieur Raspail has given us a penetrating analysis of a civilization and a race that has lost the will to defend itself.

As a Christian, what I found objectionable was his exposition of Holy Writ, specifically John’s Apocalypse, from an atheistic perspective. However, I’ll hasten to add that, from a human standpoint it’s pardonable because the Western Christianity he mocks is becoming a majority about which there’s nothing authentically Christian. Certainly the ‘Christianity’ of today has nothing in common with that possessed by John Chrysostom who said: “These traitors, these greatest villains, betray our fatherland, our force to the Turks; and we tolerate them, we feed them! That means stirring water into our chest, warming the serpent on our breast.”

Raspail lambasts those ‘evangelists’ who welcome the invasion under the pretext that we can convert them much easier as residents:

You’ve been ‘bearing witness.’ Isn’t that what you call it? Bearing witness to what? To your faith? Your religion? To your Christian civilization? Oh no, none of that! Bearing witness against yourselves, like the anti-Western cynics you’ve all become. Do you think the poor devils that flock to your side aren’t any the wiser? Nonsense! They see right through you. For them, white skin means weak convictions. They know how weak yours are, they know you’ve given in. You can thank yourselves for that. (Pg. 12). When man finally conquers his false self-image—be it only a dim and time-worn reflection of an all-but-vanished shadow, left lingering faintly in the back of his mind—there’s nothing much to do but play him his taps. (Pg. 88)

I’ll step into the gap here to say that I, by no means, minimize the inestimable work of carrying out Christ’s Great Commission by men such as David Livingstone and William Carey, but the crucial difference is that they went out into the world; they didn’t open the gates of their own homes to alien peoples! It’s a terrible irony that the Christians of today should have to be castigated by an atheist, but Raspail crystallizes the question we should all be asking ourselves about this ‘Crusades in Reverse’ we’re all passively witnessing:

“Whether those Rights of Man that we hold so dear—of certain men, that is—can be preserved at the expense of others.” He adds sarcastically, “I’ll let you think that one over.” He also employs a refrain throughout his text with great effect: “Could that be one explanation? …”

The length of this brief review necessarily precludes a too frequent inclusion of excerpts, but here’s another to hopefully whet your desire to read this book in its entirety:

We live in an age when language corrupts. Words absolved us from actions, and we sat back and waited for what was bound to happen, what we knew was beyond the power of our words. Now we’re faced with the only actions that matter, the ones that point out a very basic fact: Christian or not, they’re all calling it quits. They’re all giving up. (Pg. 78). The few clear thinkers left tried to warn us. But we wouldn’t listen. We gave way to one huge masochistic frenzy, dragged from nightmare to nightmare. We never said no. We wanted to show how permissive we could be, despite the foolish risk that, one day, we would have to face everything, all at once, and all alone. … But it seems that our mental midgets in the West see it all in terms of the rights of man. (Pg. 79). What chance, after that, of ferreting out from some inner recess of the self, from the deep maze of ready-made thoughts and emotions, some hateful remnant of a dauntless courage to throw against pity? (Pg. 53).

He concludes with a despairing note:

Why complain now? It wouldn’t have made much difference. Not really. With millions of us and billions of them, we couldn’t have held out much longer. Now we’re swept up in the Third World tide, and it’s clear that their instinctual drives have won out hands down. Everything has changed. The way people talk, the way they behave, the rhythm and rhythms of life, the play of emotions, the level of production. A whole new outlook. Even their way of not giving a damn. (Then too, with sexual appetites given free rein, it seems that the white has become Third World, though the Third World hasn’t turned white in the bargain. Clearly, they’ve won). (Pg. 93-4).

If there’s any hope for the seed of Japheth, it’s in the Divine Intervention of Revelation 20:9:

And they went up on the breadth of the earth, and compassed the camp of the saints about, and the beloved city: and fire came down from God out of heaven, and devoured them.

Revelation 20:9

-By German Confederate

9 comments

  1. What passes for Christianity is FUSA is just a biblical skinsuit of the Progressive moral orthodoxy.

    What Raspail called out was the Inversion, or convergence if you prefer vis a vis the righteous legitimacy of a Nation to exist as an extension of her People. Just as Christianity is but an extension of the Truth, God’s will and desire as he commands in Scripture.

    In many cases churchian Christianity is not even Biblical, but rather social. There is but one “culture” to which all subscribe and thus status is pursued and accrued accordingly with the church functioning as a social sanctifier via post-facto rationalizations of those Progressive values being expressed in our daily lives. One obvious tell is the feminization of the church. But there are many others.

    Of course there are exceptions. But even in my denomination, which would be considered by most other Protestant variants to be “very conservative” in that passive-aggressive pejorative way that they employ when avoiding the actual descriptor, “faithful to the Scriptures”, in favor of that social language which accepts the very premise of Progress that Christians are supposedly tasked to ward off. Hint: Language matters.

    And even within my own congregation the children are sent on “missions” to far off places as righteous working vacations under the cover of evangelical tradition while the destruction of our people within the dotted lines of our little county rage on.

    The People are broken and all matters of ruin are present. A third world ghetto unfolds right among the corn and red clay.

    The go fourth and spread the Gospel is indeed an Achilles when it is folded into the over-arching Biblical origami that has turned the bones and swords of Christianity to the doves and bland universalism that defines Man’s fallen moral orthodoxy conjured from his wants and sins. “We are all Gods children” is antithetical just as a “diverse, multicultural ‘Nation'” is antithetical.

    The inversion has opened the gates from within and without. Those kids go to Africa with Bibles while they have no homeland of their own. These two conditions are locked in the same premise which will not be turned back until that prevailing social order is destroyed.

    In this we seemed locked into a self-destructive spiral in which the very essence of language has been lost and along with it the instructions on the way to live the truth that has imperiled not just the righteousness of pursuing (and preserving!) a Godly life that serves His hierarchy, which is to say Our People, distinctly, but also the Good Works as they are tasked.

    The numerous ostensibly Christian organizations under the employ of evil NGO/nonprofit status shields capturing the ignorant but well-intentioned to usher in our replacement and destruction are symptoms but not the cause. The super bowl commercials of Jesus washing the feel of whores and sinners should be obvious as to its inverted roots but instead we have people taken in under this great re-branding exercise that seeks to capture the natural growth of Christianity in times of darkness and funnel it back into Babylon.

    Good luck Southern Men. A lot of work to do starting from ones own hearth. But as the Trump show and “elections” rage on, it is obvious to me most are not even up to this task.

  2. Raspail wasn’t an atheist, at least not in his later years (he died in 2020). It seems he was, or became, a Traditionalist Catholic, and had a Catholic funeral. This makes sense. Many/all TC’s are sick to death of the World. The wordly and androgynous bishops, priests, nuns, politicians, “influencers”, people on the street….

    Liberals have denounced The Camp of the Saints as ” xenophobic” and “genocidal”. In their usual way they therefore testify for it.

    Thank you for bringing it to our attention.

    1. Yeah I was going to make the same comment, he was a trad Catholic. I read the book about 10 years ago.

      1. Thank you both for the information on Raspail. I made the assumption based on the text and am glad to know it wasn’t warranted.

    2. I’ll be the one you roll your eyes at. Pius xii was the last pope. Joh xxiii was not a catholic and couldn’t have possibly been a pope. A new Protestant like religion replaced the Catholic faith in all the parishes in the 1970s following the revolution of the non Catholic “Vatican2” event.

      Convincing people to become Catholic with this robber church eclipsing the Catholic Church is nearly impossible. So I rarely try

      But don’t think for a second that the (real) Catholic Church or Catholics are culture annihilators despite what the vatican2 religion teaches (welcome migrants and all the other Jewish stuff) .

      The church always respected peoples and their own culture just not false religions. It’s why the English church looked so different than the Spanish church.

      1. I really enjoy listening to Bishop Richard N. Williamson so I’ll never assume all Catholics are culture annihilators. There’s one Bishop who gets it!

        1. German Confederate
          I loaded the book ‘camp of the saints’ when you mentioned it a few days ago, I can’t get my screen to turn sideways and just went ahead and read all the Amazon book reviews, which were pretty good. I don’t know how making stone age primitives equal to Christian Anglo Saxons is viewed as just and good by anyone. How can you defend that? It should be pretty obvious to all that that was our camp of the Saints moment.
          I’ll tell you this, a million Southern White men on the move would put the fear of Hell in me out west here. I can’t even imagine what it would do to all the idiots defaming us and denying our Divinity! You want it you got it Toyota!

          Making roll call.
          God Bless you Sir and may the treasures of Christ return to all of you people down South.

  3. The book reads like a fever dream because in a way it was. Raspail wrote the bulk of it over an insomniatic weekend fueled by wine and cigarettes. Take the warning about the graphic vulgarity in some descriptions seriously…but they are warranted. Flannery O’connor also goes out of the way to shock the reader because often that’s the only way to make it clear what is happening is really that terrible.

    A must read book but one of the darkest you’ll encounter. There are zero silver linings.

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