My beloved son, delight of my heart, hope of your posterity, I pray, I command, that at very time and in everything, strengthened by your devotion to me, you may show favor not only to relations and kin, or to the most eminent, be they leaders or rich men or neighbors or fellow-countrymen, but also to foreigners and to all who come to you. By fulfilling your duty in this way you will reach the highest state of happiness…
The guests and newcomers are of so much service that they may rightly be ranked sixth among the royal dignities. As in the beginning the Roman Empire was in this manner formed, so were the Roman Emperors exalted and made honorable, so that many noble and wise men joined them in a better and better realm. For as the guests arrive from different parts and provinces, so they bring with them different tongues and customs, different examples and weapons, and all this adorns the country and enhances the splendor of the court while deterring foreigners from triumphalist contempt. For a country of one single language and one set of customs is weak and vulnerable. Therefore I enjoin on you, my son, to protect newcomers benevolently and to hold them in high esteem so that they should stay with your rather than dwell elsewhere.
-Saint Stephan of Hungary, Admonitions to Prince Emeric of Hungary
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I am sorry to say this, but I must disagree with you here. Did the Roman Empire eventually not fail because of the arrival of Germanic tribes?
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No it did not. The so called “Fall of Rome” based on the laughable historiography of Edward Gibbon is one of the most misrepresented of historical periods. The role of the Foederati in not only preserving the Roman Empire against the Slavic and Hunnish onslaughts, but of actually expanding its institutions to those peoples is deliberately ignored not only because of the original anti-Christian intention of the secularist historians, but also because of the insane “Romantic” (anti-Roman) “Teutonic” cult of the Hohenzollerns. The transformation of the Roman Empire upon foederātial model of Kingdoms based around the Emperor (first in Constantinople, and later in Aachen) allowed for the development of a free Sacrétemporal society with relative Concordia Provinciarum, as compared with the onset of the Hunnish Crisis. True throughout the thousand years of this society’s existence, there was much war, some of it internal, but that is the sad fact of the decaying effect of the Fallen World. It never at anytime reached the destructive proportions of the last two hundred years.
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When you say Hohenzollern, you mean the German Empire?
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Yes, I am referring to the Prussian Kingdom of the 1870s which fostered elements of the “Romantic Movement” to a propagandized distortion of history.
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The Hohenzollern began their dynasty in the Middle Ages, and there was nothing wrong with them until the Early Modern period, no?
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The Alemannic House of Zollern of course remained faithfully Catholic and Kaisertreu, and was the eldest line. This branch of the family died out in 1869. The Prussian cadet branch began its descent into infamy in the 1500s with the apostasy of Albert of Prussia.
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You cannot really “protect foreigners benevolently” when these foreigners come with the intention to destroy and conquer you.
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You can do what must be done to defend what duty requires be defended. However, any measures taken must be within the moral laws regarding conduct, particularly as regards the principle of equity. Those whose intention is not openly hostile, nor without reasonable suspicion of hostility, can not be treated as though they were enemy soldiers marching in arms. To do so would be an injustice. We cannot with a special Divine gift know the intentions hidden in the human heart, and therefore Justice requires that we presume they are good until it has been proven to be otherwise.
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This can only work when the government is a traditional Christian one. The current satanic governments of Germany and Austria would persecute anyone who dare to open their mouth to complain about the “refugees”, and the Germans have been shamed for WWII to the point that they are so afraid of being “racist” that they have no choice but to support their own ethnic demise in the form of the refugees.
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I am not writing this to condone the actions of the current regimes, but I feel I must mention that ethnic demise was occurring and is occurring not primarily due to the refugee crisis, but to the grievous evil of abortion. The amount of refugees (and there are real refugees fleeing horrible conditions for the same reason anyone might) is insignificant to the current population, until you factor in the decline caused by decades of peoples murdering their own children. It is not with God’s grace an irreversible catastrophe, but it is one the peoples of Europe are themselves responsible for, and no amount of borders closed will present a solution. Only the conversion of souls will, and we must trust in God for this.
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true, and the breakdown of the family due to the sexual revolution and feminism too
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