Blut and Boden sounds scarier in German.

Introduction.

The worst corruptions are corruptions of the very best things.

The devil himself fell from a very great height,

and it is not surprising that the greatest creational gifts can be turned into formidable idols.

But it can still be really easy to make light of those people who react negatively

to anything that smells like a blood and soil trope, doing so just because

it was the Nazis who put that phrase on the map, Blutin, Boten and German. Stop freaking out,

they say. What's wrong with family ties? What's wrong with little topsoil for the garden

out back? Home and hearth really are among the greatest created goods that we have been given,

and a well-ordered society places a high priority on protecting it. The Fifth

Commandment requires us to honor all such things with gratitude, Nazis or no Nazis. As Lewis said,

the state exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life,

and that ordinary happiness certainly includes the happiness of home and hearth right at the center.

But precisely because

it is such a good thing, it becomes an implacable demon when impudent sinners start bringing their kinks

into it, which they are currently attempting to do, suckled on a creed outworn. In his sonnet,

the world is too much with us. William Wordsworth lamented the materialistic disconnect between

modern mammon man, on the one hand hand and pristine nature on the other.

He yearned for an earlier time, one that he assumed represented a more wholesome integration of man with nature.

For this, for everything we are out of tune. It moves us not. Great God I'd rather be a pagan suckled and a creed outworn.

So might I, standing on this pleas Lee, have glimpses that would

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