It often seems that the great institutions of the West are being hollowed out by an unseen force. Frequently, institutions, publications and organizations will promote the same twisted message, seemingly arising from nowhere. This is the result of Universalism. Universalism is not a religion in and of itself, but rather a tendency which modifies a preexisting one. When Universalists profess a predilection for tolerance, it soon becomes quite clear that they only tolerate other Universalists.

Certain beliefs are often associated with Universalism, among them the absence of absolute truth, the validity of all religions, and the infinite malleability of man. Even their Heaven has no standards for entry. Its roots reach back to the early days of Christianity. Many heretical Christians of the Late Imperial era espoused such principles, such as Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. However, the early Church recognized the dangers of Universalism, and condemned the heresy strongly in the Second Council of Constantinople. Through countless historical eras, it can be observed that any society adopting Universalist precepts will invariably implode. Unfortunately, there is no better example than our own.

The world today runs on the values and ideas of the American North. Those once included thrift, curiosity and a strong sense of civic virtue. During the height of American Puritan culture, the Northerner grew rapidly in numbers, wealth and scholarship, unparalleled by any other society. However, the seeds of his destruction were sown when he adopted Universalism in the middle of the nineteenth century.

One of the best examples of this change was the alteration of the Harvard curriculum under President Charles W. Eliot. He abolished the mandatory study of Greek and Latin, thereby depriving his students of their classical heritage. And so from then on would American education be an ever-shifting morass of academic fads. It bears noting that during this period, New Englanders would be one of the first populations in the world to undergo the demographic transition.

Many precepts of Universalism found their way into founding documents of the United Nations. One early document asserts as scientific fact the idea that all differences between nations and societies cannot be biological in nature. Although this was disputed by many prominent anthropologists of the time, it was defended on the basis that its opponents must be bad people. Another example of this Universalism is the assignment of the heavenly bodies, and indeed the vast unexplored bulk of the universe as the “common heritage of mankind” thereby retarding the progress of space exploration, by rendering any riches obtained from them the property of the commons.

The changes occurring within the Catholic Church in the 1960s are a prime example of Universalist infiltration. Prior to this era, the Catholic percentage of the United States increased by the year. Indeed, much of the midcentury population growth of America can be credited to them. It is not well known, but by that point, many Protestant groups had already adopted Universalist principles, and had already undergone the attendant decline in fertility rates. During that time, the Church ceased to view itself as the bearer of absolute truth, and instead professed to be only one of many valid religions. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the use of Latin was abolished as well. Strong Universalist messages can be found in music adopted by the Church during this period. Unsurprisingly, almost immediate upon the adoption of these changes, the Catholic Church began to lose members, eventually spiraling into decades of decline. For no one will believe an institution which doubts itself.

As the New Englander is the purest Universalist of them all, he has been destroyed the most by the precepts of this system of belief. His churches have been debased above all others by the wages of liberal modernity. If he can be made to see the error of his ways, and return to those of his forefathers, it would be an immense asset to our civilization. The old Northern virtues are essential to the welfare of America. It is therefore a necessity to preserve them.