He claims that we, Hungarians, adhere to all those values, to those life practices honed over the course of history, which have nevertheless brought white Western civilization to the point where we do not murder our fellow human beings on an industrial scale.
Where are the times of peace when even an atheist was a Christian? When we took it for granted that the foundation of Hungary's 1,100-year-old statehood was the Christian culture. It is true that at that time it was not even necessary to state in the Basic Law that the mother was a woman and the father was a man. Furthermore, it was not necessary to write on billboards that if you come to Hungary, you must obey our laws.
The world has changed, we have to confirm things that we have taken for granted over and over again. Don't get me wrong: these things we take for granted are not Hungarian peculiarities - they made Europe what it is. The content of the concept of freedom in the Western sense has therefore changed.
This is precisely why the cross alignment is justified.
I have written and said it several times, but it can't hurt to repeat it: Western culture and civilization - even with its dark sides - created the most livable countries in the world.
The cross is not a denial of something, but an assertion. He claims that we, Hungarians, adhere to all those values, to those life practices honed throughout history, which have nevertheless brought white Western civilization to the level where we do not lynch anyone because of their skin color or religious affiliation, we do not murder our fellow human beings on an industrial scale, their principles are equality between man and woman etc.
The damned Western civilization abolished slavery, for example. Or even the question of colonization: there is a paradox in this, namely that the colonial peoples rebelled against the colonizers based on the ideas imported from the "Western, white, Christian" world. Self-determination, democracy, human rights - these are the creations of Western, white, Christian civilization.
This is the content and framework of our freedom, the freedom of the cross gave birth to this order for us. That is why it is good to live in the countries of Western civilization - and (as I have already written) it is not only good for Western, white, Christian people to live here.
This is the message of the cross.
And he warns us about something else, which Nicolás Gómez Dávila put bluntly:
"It is not a Christian society where no one sins, but where there are many who repent."
It is the cross of our freedom, indeed. If it were up to me, a double cross would light up on Gellért Hill, clearly visible to the world, to make it even clearer what Hungarian freedom is about.
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