Western Roots All Mixed Up

[Ed Hurst]

There's a rather famous blogger who goes by the handle of Bionic Mosquito. His stuff shows up on lots of sites tilted toward political libertarianism. As you might expect, this means he is a stout defender of Western Civilization and all that goes with that. More, he clearly knows exactly how the West came to be and applauds the compromise the Church made to attract the invading Germanic hordes.

In one article, he reviews a book: The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Sociohistorical Approach to Religious Transformation.

Why is this topic of interest to me?  As you know, I point to the period of the European Middle Ages and the decentralized law and society of the time as perhaps the closest and longest lasting example of something approaching a libertarian society that I have found.  Fundamental characteristics of the society include its Christianity.

In other words, libertarian political theory is so important to him that the perversion of Christian theology is worth it. He's on the verge of the Ruckmanite position that Germanic mythology corrects the gospel. In the process, our Bionic Mosquito mixes things up. He opines that feudalism wasn't inherent in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount. It's as if such writers are refusing to recognize that Hebrew society was feudal, and that God's revelation was also feudal.