‘The Islamization of Texas and the Rest of the States’

 

This news article from Revolver reads like a horror story for those who care about traditional Texan culture, starting with de Vaca and de Coronado, on to Davy Crockett and Sam Houston, to Gen John Bell Hood and Lt Richard Dowling, and the rest of ’em:

‘As of now, Texas has the third-largest Middle Eastern immigrant population in America.

‘And that new influx of Muslims is already making sweeping changes in the Lone Star State. Just to be clear, the video clips you’re about to see weren’t filmed in Iran. They were filmed in Texas.

‘Yes, the footage is from 2022, but there’s nothing “old news” about it. Texas is changing fast, and the rise of the Muslim population and culture is playing a major role in that transformation.

‘Wall Street Apes:

‘“Seeing this in America, you should be aware of what’s happening in Texas – Texas is the number 1 state for fastest growing amount of new Muslim Mosques – Texas state government has allocated approximately $13 million in taxpayer funds to 18 Islamic organizations just in 2025 – Texas is now ranked 3rd for most Muslim Mosques in the nation – Texas is expected to overtake California for the number 1 ranking for most mosques nationwide numbers by 2025–2030, potentially as early as 2025 (THIS YEAR) if the rate new mosques being built continues”

‘https://twitter.com/WallStreetApes/status/1939900903508910201

‘Here’s another video from that event.

‘Amy Mek:

‘“Islamized Texas 🚨 The New “Mecca of the United States”

‘“Dallas has fallen….

‘“Muslim men pounding their chests in the streets of Texas for Ashura, while over 70 mosques, Islamic schools, political groups, and “religious leaders” already dominate Dallas.

‘“You think this looks foreign now? Give it five more years. Our demographics are vanishing, our culture erased, and our leaders sold us out without a fight.

‘“Where are the values that built Texas?

‘“Gone – replaced.”

‘https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/1940331571044896980’ (‘This isn’t Iran… It’s Texas…,’ revolver.news).

Alarmingly, Texas’s situation isn’t unique.  Islam is gaining ground all across the US, where the number of mosques has increased by 31% from 2010 to 2020, from 2,106 to 2,769.

We are heading for a gigantic reckoning in Texas and many another State in Dixie and beyond.  The political institutions that we’ve grown accustomed to aren’t going to last very long under the influence of the imams of Dallas, Minneapolis, etc.  What has developed under Christianity will change dramatically under Islam.  We are not so keen on some of Alexander Hamilton’s views, he being a strong proponent of turning the United States into an empire with a powerful central government, but he expressed the truth when he wrote in 1799,

‘“I hold with Montesquieu, that a government must be fitted to a nation, as much as a coat to the individual; and, consequently, that what may be good at Philadelphia may be bad at Paris, and ridiculous at Petersburg.”

‘In other words, not every people was capable of political freedom because not every people is grounded in the same moral code, religion, civic understanding, and cultural norms that helped forge this nation. A republic is not held together by geography, but by bonds of belonging and loyalty. It requires a people who speak the same language, revere the same traditions, and share the same worldview and morality’ (Brianna Lyman, ‘You Can’t Celebrate 1776 While Ignoring The Invasion We’re Dealing With In 2025,’ thefederalist.com).

But the importance of religion goes beyond its effects on the political system.  The soul’s relationship with God the All-Holy Trinity is most essential.  And this is why Christianity must be upheld and Islam and other religions discouraged, because only the Church can unite us with God.  An homily given by Elder Philotheos for the Feast of Sts Peter and Paul illustrates both the blessings that come from faith in Christ and the curses that befall those who reject Him:

‘Without neither fear nor trembling, he [St Peter] stood before kings and tyrants, teaching and rebuking and remaining fearless in the face of threats and dangers. Eager and tireless, although he was an elder, he began preaching from Jerusalem, running to Judea, Antioch, Pontus and Galatia, Bithynia and Cappadocia, Europe and Asia. In Rome he was martyred for Christ by being crucified by Nero with his head down.

‘ . . . Like a winged eagle he traveled the whole universe preaching the word of God and baptizing those who believed. In this Apostle one sees wonderful and extraordinary things that transcend all human power; that is why Divine Chrysostom was right to exclaim in one of his sermons: "No other Paul will be born." His struggles and efforts for the gospel are beyond reason; the dangers, tribulations, sorrows, and other afflictions are indescribable.

‘Listen, my beloved ones, in a few words, you have heard the achievements of the foremost Apostles. How did they perform such signs and wonders? By what means? With faith. All the wondrous and extraordinary things that the Apostles and all the Saints did, they did with faith.

‘This is the faith of the Saints, but what is the faith of our Christians today?

‘What do I see, what do I hear from the illiterates, the peasants, the shepherds? Blasphemies, obscenities, thefts. What do I see in the rich, in the merchants? Greed, seizures, avarice. What do I see in the rulers? Egoism, arrogance, flattery, deceit, covetousness. In all, both the people and the clergy, one sees negligence, lethargy, corruption, paralysis. And then we wait for progress, we wait for wars, sorrows and misfortunes to stop. I said it, I say it and I will keep saying it; when we repent, when we become pious, then our troubles will cease’ (Elder Philotheos Zervakos, ‘On the Feast of the Foremost Apostles Peter and Paul (Elder Philotheos Zervakos,’ johnsanidopoulos.com).

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The rest is at https://thehayride.com/2025/07/garlington-the-islamization-of-texas-and-the-rest-of-the-states/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

‘Praxis Nation: Tech Bros Discover Vitalism’

 

St Seraphim Rose (who reposed in 1982), before he became an Orthodox priest-monk, when he was still simply Eugene Rose, developed an historical outline explaining the rise of the demonic Revolution all over the world.  The outline consisted of four stages and was included as a chapter in his little but profound book, Nihilism:  The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age.  The four stages begin with liberalism and then run through realism, vitalism, and nihilism.

Liberalism is a society’s indifference to Truth, to Christ; realism is the rejection of higher, spiritual truths in favor of those that can be ascertained only through the physical senses, natural science, and the like.  Vitalism is a reaction against the sterility of realism, an attempt to imbue human life once again with some level of tradition and spirituality.  It is likewise very much focused on energy, power, movement, adventure, the heroic, newness, and on the subjective experience of individuals to determine what is true and right for themselves.

Much of the West has sickened and withered under the unrelenting blasts of liberalism and realism.  And now, as St Seraphim foresaw, the hunger for something better has begun to gnaw at the souls of her peoples.  It is none other than the leaders of the Big Tech subculture who have become the vanguard in a movement toward vitalism in the West.  They do not mention that word specifically in their documents (except once, tangentially, that we saw), but their stated goals align very well with the characteristics of vitalism as described by St Seraphim.

The Tech Bros’ latest project bears this out.  They call it Praxis; here is how they describe it on the Praxis web site:

 

Praxis is the world’s first Digital Nation: a global community developing a culture, institutions, and infrastructure. Praxis is a home for the brave, who strive for virtue and wisdom. Our purpose is to restore Western Civilization and pursue our ultimate destiny of life among the stars.

A Praxian who calls himself Dryden Brown gives more details in one of the essays linked on the homepage:

 

It's important for you to understand why we are building Praxis.

 

First, I'm going to share a secret with you.

 

Every civilization has had the same origin: in a wasteland, a people unite around transcendent purpose, and pursue it heroically.

 

Today, the West is a wasteland.

 

 . . .

 

But here's a second secret:

 

To be born in the wasteland is to be chosen.

 

You live in a new Age of Heroes. Your fate awaits -- if you have the courage to step forward.

 

You are not alone.

 

Across the West -- around bonfires, on mountaintops, in shadow and in light -- 100,000 have united under the banner of Praxis.

 

Praxis exists to unite the People of the West and resurrect the heroism that drove our ancestors to build empires - so our descendants might possess this flame.

 

 . . . We are not the children of decline. We are the children of empire.

 

The flame is ours now. Take it.

The founders of Praxis give even more detail of their intentions in a Declaration of Ascent they issued on 6 November 2024, modelled very much on the Declaration of Independence that begot the United States (which should again give us pause as to the beneficence of the latter document and its offspring).  Here is some of the more revelatory language from the former:

 

We ascend toward transcendence, striving to reunite with the eternal principles that shaped our highest civilizations. As the warrior-kings once sought the sacred Grail, so too shall we build an empire where true power flows from heroic courage and alignment with the divine order. Through this sacred pursuit, we will restore the foundations that elevated mankind beyond mere existence into ever greater heights of greatness and glory.

 

To these ends, we bind our destinies together as citizens of the first network empire. We commit ourselves to:

 

·         The cultivation of nobility, beauty, and excellence in all endeavors

·         The creation of new forms of human organization born from our highest ideals

·         The establishment of governance that nourishes the human spirit in its ascent

·         The development of our own territory, both physical and digital

·         The advancement of technology in service of human transcendence

·         The preservation and transmission of our highest values through generations

·         The extension of human civilization beyond the cradle of Earth

 

We undertake these commitments not in opposition to existing nations, but in recognition that humanity stands ready to evolve beyond current forms. We invite all who share our vision to join us in this great ascension.

In two particularly prescient passages from Nihilism, St Seraphim warns us against the dangers that are present in vitalist proposals like Praxis:

 

There is no question, then, of finding in Vitalism a return to Christian--or any other--truths. There is, however, inevitably some pretense among Vitalists to do so. Many critics have noted the "pseudoreligious" character even of Marxism, though that epithet is applicable only to the misplaced fervor of its more enthusiastic devotees, and not to its doctrine, which is too clearly anti-religious in character. In Vitalism the question of "pseudo-religion" becomes much more serious. Here a quite understandable lament over the loss of spiritual values becomes father, on the one hand to subjective fantasies and (sometimes) to actual Satanism, which the undiscriminating take as revelations of the "spiritual" world, and on the other hand to a rootless eclecticism that draws ideas from every civilization and every age and finds a totally arbitrary connection between these misunderstood fragments and its own debased conceptions. Pseudo-spirituality and pseudo-traditionalism, one or both, are integral elements of many Vitalist systems. We must be cautious, then, in examining the claims of those who would restore a "spiritual" meaning to life, and especially of those who fancy themselves allies or adherents of "Christianity." "Spiritualist" errors are far more dangerous than any mere materialism; . . . most of what passes for "spirituality" today is in fact a "new spirituality," a cancer born of Nihilism that attaches itself to healthy organisms to destroy them from within. This tactic is the precise opposite of the bold Realist attack upon truth and the spiritual life; but it is no less a Nihilist tactic, and a more advanced one.

 

 . . . But perhaps most revealing of the infection of humanism by Vitalism is the strange axiom, romantic and skeptical at the same time, that the "love of truth" is never-ending because it can never be fulfilled, that the whole of life is a constant search for something there is no hope of finding, a constant movement that never can--nor should--know a place of rest. The sophisticated humanist can be very eloquent in describing this, the new first principle of scholarly and scientific research, as an acknowledgement of the "provisional" nature of all knowledge, as a reflection of the never-satisfied, ever-curious human mind, or as part of the mysterious process of "evolution" or "progress"; but the significance of the attitude is dear. It is the last attempt of the unbeliever to hide his abandonment of truth behind a cloud of noble rhetoric, and, more positively, it is at the same time the exaltation of petty curiosity to the place once occupied by the genuine love of truth. Now it is quite true to say that curiosity, exactly like its analogue, lust, never ends and is never satisfied; but man was made for something more than this. He was made to rise, above curiosity and lust, to love, and through love to the attainment of truth. This is an elementary truth of human nature, and it requires, perhaps, a certain simplicity to grasp it. The intellectual trifling of contemporary humanism is as far from such simplicity as it is from truth.

And yet, for all the dangers inherent in vitalism, the dreariness of the wasteland created by liberalism and realism is attracting many folks in the States to its banner, particularly younger folks, as one may discern from this report about the National Conservative conference held in January 2025, whose attendees the author likens to New Romantics (Romanticism being a form of vitalism).

But for the Praxians, New Romantics, and others who are seeking a more meaningful life, there is another road open to them aside from vitalism.  It is that road of simplicity that St Seraphim mentioned just above.  The vitalist thinks there is power in brash, loud assertiveness.  The Orthodox saints show that the opposite is true:  Divine power rests upon those who live a life of quiet, unassuming simplicity.

A new saint of the Orthodox Church illustrates this with great clarity, Holy Matushka Olga of Kwethluk, Alaska (+1979).  Here is her life as given by the OCA:

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The rest is at https://orthodoxreflections.com/praxis-nation-tech-bros-discover-vitalism/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

'Why Do the United States Exist?'

 

A new film was released in the States in June with the title The American Miracle:  Our Nation Is No Accident.  There seems to be some truth in the premise; several events in the 13 colonies’ War for Independence and earlier, as well as some events much later during the War between the States, are difficult to explain as anything other than supernatural intervention, such as George Washington’s escape from volleys of gunfire without injury or helpful weather changes.

The Holy Trinity does not allow things to happen haphazardly.  There is undoubtedly then a purpose in the Lord allowing this union of States in North America to rise up in the world and wield so much power.  The key question remains, ‘For what purpose?’

The MAGA crowd would answer that God Himself created ‘America’ to be the perfect archetype to which all other countries ought to conform in politics, religion, and economics.  The American project is the end of history for them, before which and after which nothing better is to be found.

Taking into consideration what is written in the Holy Scriptures as well as Church history, we have a different theory.  It is not unusual to see the Lord raise up powerful new countries and empires in the world in order to chastise His wayward people.  Such was the case with the Assyrians and Babylonians in the Old Testament, whom He sent against the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah to bring the latter two to their senses after falling deeply into sin.  Such was the case with the Arian Vandals who persecuted the Orthodox Church in northern Africa in the 5^th century and with the Muslim Arabs and Turks who likewise scourged the Orthodox in Africa, western Asia, and eastern Europe from the 7^th to the 19^th centuries, and still today in some of those places.

In light of these things, it seems plausible that the United States are not God’s chosen country but rather a tool that He brought to prominence for two purposes:

(1) To limit the extent of the Communist menace that rose up in Russia, Romania, Serbia, and elsewhere in the 20^th century to cure the Russians and the other Orthodox of their rebelliousness against Christ, to continually challenge the Communist regime and eventually bring it down when through genuine repentance those countries had cleansed themselves of the stains of their sins; and

(2) To offer a place of sanctuary to which the persecuted Orthodox from those countries could flee and continue to live their Orthodox way of life in peace during the years that darkness enshrouded their homelands.

As evidence of this, we note how remarkably quickly the States have declined since the fall of Communism in the Orthodox countries mentioned above.  The reasons for their being a great power having been accomplished, the Lord no longer had any reason to give them any special help; He returned His favor instead to Russia and the other Orthodox countries, who had begun to look to the God of their fathers once again.

Because of this, the United States, having been a seed-bed of heresies and sinful passions from their early days, are decaying rapidly after the loss of God’s Grace.

And yet an inglorious death does not have to be the final chapter for the States.  . . .

The rest may be read here:

https://www.geopolitika.ru/en/article/why-do-united-states-exist

Also in Russian:

https://katehon.com/ru/article/pochemu-ssha-sushchestvuyut

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!

‘The Light within the Gloomy Woods’

 

The shadowy woods present an ominous face,

Leafless hands on withered branches, driven by the wind,

Beat against the black clouds that fill the sky,

Obscuring the fiery orb and its blazing beams.

 

Isn’t this the home of evil fiends, of wights and thieves?

But Saint Evroul has wrought a mighty transformation.  A refugee

From the Frankish court, now a hermit of these woods,

Eking out a life on scanty fare in his mud-branch hut.

 . . .

The rest is at https://www.newenglishreview.org/articles/the-light-within-the-gloomy-woods/.

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Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England, South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð, unworthy though we are!

Anathema to the Union!