Rob: the brilliance of Christianity is that it allows us to be relatively brutal with our enemies, while still preaching piety among ourselves.

Since when does Christianity condone brutality. Its values have a universal cosmopolitanism, a factor that contributes significantly to its popularity worldwide.

Rob: Maybe it provides a sort of escape valve for moral problems.

? You do not seem to understand Christianity in the least.

Rob: Not many Christian Americans lost sleep over Hiroshima (or would today if we did the same thing to parts of Pakistan).

Killing is un-Christian, even if the victims are non-Christians.

Rob: The great Christian rulers like Charlemagne were among the most brutal against their enemies.

I assume then that the virtue you are singling out is brutality, in which case there are more numerous and severe non-Christian examples. Moreover, the Carolingians, not unlike the Merovingians that preceded them combined Germanic paganism and Christianity in which 'God' was a war god of the variety worshipped before Clovis accepted Catholicism. That Catholicism was alive and well in Gallia before its domination by the Franks, and that the clergy were descended from Roman senatorial families, goes a long way to explain why the French remained Catholic and the Germanic lands embraced the Reformation...

I wrote a small article on this subject about one year ago...as I had become disgusted with the identification of serious Christianity with limp-wristed pacifism.  That the Christian churches have succumbed to the Pacifist delusion is just one example of the many recent Christian heresies that have dis-embowled the ancient faith, thus alienating our peoples and effeminating our males.  (An empowered and masculinized woman simply fails to engender overall social security when confronted by really bad men. To meet such a challenge, we need lots of really good men. Nothing else will suffice.) This can be shown from a NON-Western, (non-Roman and non-reformed) account of history, as well.  One only has to familiarize oneself with Byzantine, Slavic, Nestorian, Armenian, Coptic, and Georgian history to see that Christian Pacifism was never the understanding of manifestly Christian societies when it came to matters that involved the defense of the Historic Faith, the preservation of one's family and country, as well as...the salvation of strangers and neighbors that were oppressed by Godless authorities, such as Islam. Nowadays, America is perhaps the sole embodiment of a Christian-derived Western culture that feels obligated to the sacred responsibility that REQUIRES us to evangelize not only liberty as a nation, but also our Christianity as the one true, catholic, and apostolic faith.  This notion of Christian Pacifism is extracted out-of-context from Christian written tradition in the particular, and extended to encompass the universal as a non-violate dogma of the Faith.  Though it is, in-fact, nothing of the sort.  Gramsci and the Soviets had utilized this one facet of "tweaked" Christian theology in order to de-stabilize the family's adherence to Christian values, thus weakening the Christian society as-a-whole by de-balling it and making it powerless to withstand and defend itself against the onslaught and saturation of Leftist/atheistic/and politicized dogma.  BUT, "No greater love has any man, than he who lays down his life for his friend," so said the Lord.  Christian warriors are not the nemesis of the Christian Faith, they are the very Essence of the Christian Faith...they are the epitomy of self-emptying sacrifice. The surrendering of everything they have toward the ultimate victory of the "GOOD," which is the Trinitarian God, and the Church of the Living Christ.   These "Christian Warriors" are a "type" of Christ.  They are martyrs...but, not Islamic martyrs. Islam has given martyrs a very bad name, indeed. An Islamic martyr is energized by satan, as this is evident from the nature of their atrocities which have their explicit justification from the Koran itself. C'est la difference. When the West finally awakens to the sanctity of what they have been handed-down, it will be a glorious New Day. Then, they will not eschew legitimate force in order to defend their peoples and their Christian Religion  In fact, they will relish the opportunity to do so, as the existential aspects of the struggle against evil becomes revealed to them through Christian theology as the answer to the eternal question, "Why am I here?" We are here to struggle and fight against evil...specifically against Islamic (satanic) Colonization and Western (Christian) annihilation. Nothing clarifies like clarity. As the Psalmist says:  "You shall hate evil with a righteous hatred,"  "and you shall burn the evil from out-of your midst."    
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I would argue that drinking too deeply from the cup of Marxism is the primary reason for the collapsed birthrates in the West. As captainchaos points out, in the post war period when monogamy ruled the day there were many large stable families who were practicing Christians as well. The secular socialists (ie Marxists) who populate much of the western world today are practically sterile.

Our present time christian warriors:

The Judas Kiss

Let us remember that just 50 short years ago the Western world was in the middle of the "baby boom." I just don't think plausible that in the last fifty years men of European descent have undergone some kind of genetic decline in their virility.

I've worked in factories here in America with self-proclaimed "rednecks" and let me assure you their virility and masculinity is very much intact. Anything said to the contrary would not be condusive to one's physical safety.

Studies have shown that when it comes to testosterone levels in the blood blacks rank number one with whites in the middle and Northeast Asians bring up the rear.

Also, its obvious that European men are taller, physically stronger, and more athletic than Arabs.

I think the culprits of declining Western fertility rates are most likely feminist ideology, widely availible contraceptives and abortion, and anti-white brainwashing.

What could be more masculine than the "authoritarian" type personality? I'm not talking about some kind of nut like Hitler but just the good old fashioned 1950's dad who was the head off his house hold and wasn't afraid to lay down the law. But as we all know thanks to the Marxist slugs that crawled out of the "Frankfurt School" this kind of guy is no longer to be thought of as a pillar of society but as a closet Fascist.

is that it allows us to be relatively brutal with our enemies, while still preaching piety among ourselves. Maybe it provides a sort of escape valve for moral problems. Not many Christian Americans lost sleep over Hiroshima (or would today if we did the same thing to parts of Pakistan). The great Christian rulers like Charlemagne were among the most brutal against their enemies.

Just because the time was right for Christianity 2000 years ago doesn't mean it still is today. Perhaps it has run its course. We can't make a definite connection between the intentions of the supporters of Christianity 1500 or 2000 years ago and the outcome in this day and age. When polygamy is allowed, the "alpha" males have more offspring. Polygamy has been outlawed in the Christian world almost since the beginning. This is bound to have genetic consequences over time, both beneficial and detrimental.

Actually, it may be the case that monogamy is preferable to polygamy for societal stability, but this assumes a closed society, which we don't have in the West now due to high levels of immigration. Feminists and liberals in general seem fundamentally conflicted on the subject of manliness. They seek to eliminate it from native-born Westerners, while tolerating and welcoming it when it is exhibited by non-Western immigrants. Perhaps this is more evidence that feminists and liberals ultimately do not know what they want and should not be trusted with the reigns of power.

Ibrahim: Following Constantine, there have been a number of heroic leaders who chose – not through coercion or any pressing need – to embrace Christianity: such as the Carolingians, including Charles "the Hammer" Martel, who Christian civilization owes no small debt for its existence (battle of Tours 732) and his descendants, most notably Charlemagne.

Actually it was the preceeding Merovingian dynasty that converted to Christianity after winning the Battle of Tolbiac. Francia was Catholic almost 200 years before Charles Martel's birth...so the above comment is nonsensical.