Dominion Series Resources (page two)

Below is “Does God Exist? A Conversation with Tom Holland, Stephen Meyer, and Douglas Murray”. Stephen Meyer is the author of Darwin’s Doubt and The Return of the God Hypothesis. Douglas Murray is the author of The War of the West and The Madness of Crowds.

 A dynamic conversation between Matt Fradd and Monsignor Louie Merosne, Pastor of the Cathedral of St. Anne in Anse-a-Veau, Haiti.  (Video time: 13 minutes)

 About 30 minutes, the discussion begins at the four-minute mark. 

This video offers insights into the foundational principles and values of the French Revolution - a shocking rupture from the past and is, in Holland’s view, a decisive moment in all of world history.  

There are helpful observations on The Declaration of the Man (1789) and the equally important, but often overlooked, The Constitution of the Clergy (1790).       As the historian Simon Schama argues the Constitution is “the beginning of a holy war” in France...a ‘holy war’ that appears to continue as evidenced by the blasphemous and mocking parody at the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Yet Holland argues that the rights and principles of the French Revolution were bred of deeply held Christian assumptions. How does this work?

At the end of the video Sandbrook makes a very important point regarding “Holland’s Gambit” - that Tom Holland views the revolutions and counter-revolutions of Modernity as a struggle between two kinds of Christians. This is a very clarifying insight into Holland’s interpretation of Western history and Modernity!

The 17th century “slave of the slaves,” St. Peter Claver dedicated his life to caring for the needs of slaves as they arrived in Cartagena from Africa.               

According to St. Peter Clever, social justice includes and prioritizes evangelization, a mission which flies in the face of Immanuel Kant's argument that religion is basically resolvable into ethics.