Environmentalism, the Tower of Babel and the Disintegration of Culture | with Paul Kingsnorth

I’ve been slowly becoming a Christian over the last years, and are considering joining a small Greek Orthodox congregation. This video made up my mind. Going to the Divine Liturgy this Sunday.

"You have the luxury of rejecting religion if you're in a culture which holds it up. But if you're in a culture that has nothing, or if you're in a culture that has replaced any sense of the divine, any sense of the sacred with basically consumerism and individualism, then rejecting religion is certainly not a fun piece of rebellion any more. It's like 'Oh shit, I think I just realized what that thing was for that we destroyed'". Paul Kingsnorth, 2021

Pageau is on a roll. These conversations are transformative

This reflects my own experience to a T. I didn't want to be a Christian, but Christ showed up and dragged me back in.

Amazing. "Social justice is like the Sermon on the Mount without love, forgiveness or God".

My two-year-old just now: "The bushes and trees are crying 'Save us!' I'm crying too!" Palm Sunday today. I only just realized that when Jesus says the rocks and trees would cry out if the people of Jerusalem were silent, the cry would be the same "Hosanna - save us!" And they do cry out. It may be clearest when we build a church, or use mineral pigments to paint Christ on a board. Even when we don't, the rocks and trees cry "Save us!" All creation yearns for the life of Christ who made and sustains it.

This guest sort of gradually won me over.

Fr Seraphim Rose: "The Patron Saint of Lost Western People" ... True! I went through TM before encountering Christ, and when I began reading Fr Seraphim Rose I was able to understand my own life arc. Thank you, Paul!

As I sit here working on cartoons, I thank you for your content. I am 30 years old and I struggle daily with myself. Talks like these inspire me to be more than I am and to deny myself, to pickup my cross and follow. Thank you so much for all the work you have done, and continue to do.

church experience as a lecture vs. "oh, God's in the room." .. loved to hear what this man had to say.

Who knew YouTube conversations could be so awesome? Thanks Jonathan. These are awesome conversations.

It’s funny what when he talks about not wanting to be a Christians. I hated Christianity and Jesus saved me while literally trying to research information to discredit Christ and the Bible but Instead I began having demonic attacks dreams and visions. Jesus appeared to me in a dream and I realized for sure Jesus is God. I hated Christianity but I wanted to love God and right there Jesus let me know that In order to love God I have to love him and the Bible. Everything just started to makes sense about this life and the world we live in after I accepted Christ he began to reveal the truth about everything I use to wonder about. The process was extremely rough but I never want to go back to the blind and spiritually dark person I use to be.

It's amazing how the English have produced so many literary giants who were great defenders of the Christian faith. In the 20th century, think Chesterton, Graham Greene, C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkein, Dorothy Sayers, and Evelyn Waugh. They were mostly Catholic and Kingsnorth is Orthodox, but he is following in that same tradition. I believe he will be an important voice in the years to come, and hopefully he will be joined by others.

The last section of this discussion is basically: "Verily, verily, I say unto you, except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit." --John 12:24. This is the epigraph to Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov.

DUDE! You have been so extremely helpful in giving me a proper understanding of Christianity and these interviews are just the best! This was insanely good!!! My wife an I enjoy your content. We will both be Chrismated this Sat! From IFB to Orthodoxy! What a trip its been!

I am so encouraged by seeing you two finding each other in this space - in the image of The Garden in the midst of this God-forsaken world of our own creation! You give me so much hope - which I need as a grandma ( even a bit like an embodiment of the mythic grandma of the people)..... please keep this conversation going!

The same "extract and consume" mentality set loose on nature is also destroying relationships.

I am stunned as I listen to this. Paul Kingsnorth tells my story! I feel so much validation and clarity.

Thank you dear saints for making it clear how blessed we are to be adopted as children of God!!! All glory to Father God, our High Priest THE LORD JESUS, our Saviour, and the ever present help of the Holy Spirit!!!!

I can feel it too I follow you since 2016 but in the last couple of weeks I really binge watch your videos and I almost finished your brothers book Thank you for your work, you cannot believe how transformative this was to me. I went from panic attacks and "over-optimization" to a feeling of connection to reality and a caring for reality. Humanity suffers from a deep spiritual crisis. I mean I feel connected now, but I remember how dark and bitter and alienated I felt from life and I even think it's way worse with the younger generations. I just hope that this "pressure-cooking" of spiritual suffering leads to Christianity and not another global ideological experiment