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Modern culture is evil.  What are the alternatives to modern culture?  Before discussing alternatives that I think can work, I will discuss alternatives that don't work.

Politics doesn't work.  Moral people are an insignificant minority in all nations today.  And never in history has a nation been made moral through politics.  Politics is useful in a society formed by moral people.  In such a society, politics can help implement the will of these moral people.  This is how America worked before it became evil.  But in an evil society, politics is just a contest for power, nothing more.

Modern Christianity doesn't work.  Modern Christianity is all faith and no works, which means no morality.  The main practical difference between a modern Christian and an atheist is that the modern Christian violates the third commandment while the atheist doesn't, making the atheist slightly less sinful than the modern Christian.  I discussed in detail what went wrong with modern Christianity in The Rise and Fall of Christian Culture.

Modern Catholicism doesn't work.  To a large degree, what went wrong with Protestantism has infected Catholicism.  The current Pope is a total disaster.  But Catholicism was essentially doomed by the Second Vatican Council which fully gave in to modern culture.

Orthodox Christianity is like a better version of Catholicism, but it still doesn't work.  Mainstream Orthodox Christianity does not work in the West because it is too weak of a religion to withstand modern culture.  This can be seen by the fact that the sexes are mixed in service.  Historically, Orthodox Christianity has always partnered with a government that supports it, so this seems to be the condition in which it works.  But a religion that depends on the government is not a reliable religion, and isn't a religion that can improve a society.  This can be seen in the fact that Orthodox Christianity has never produced a highly productive culture.

White nationalism doesn't work.  No racial movement in history has succeeded without religious backing.  White nationalists who want success should copy the most successful racial movement, namely Judaism.  This means that white nationalists need to pick a religion for their movement.  Until they do so, they are a hopeless bunch.

That completes the important options that don't work.  Now let's consider options that work.  History shows that all good cultures are supported by a good religion.  How can one judge if a religion is good and strong enough to resist modern culture?  One superficial way to judge that I have found to be very effective is just to ask whether men and women sit separately during religious service.  Religions that have maintained this separation have shown that they are strong enough to resist modern culture

Orthodox Judaism works marginally if you are a racist jew.  The problem with Judaism is that it is fundamentally an evil parasitic dishonest religion, and this causes periodic holocausts against its followers.  But in spite of this, there always seems to be a remnant that carries on, which is why I call this marginally working.

Conservative Mennonism is an alternative for Christians.  All of traditional Anabaptism has potential, but the conservative Mennonites seem the best.  They don't reject all modern technology as Old Order Anabaptists do (like the Amish), but they still do a good job keeping modern culture out.  They are serious Christians, serious about following Jesus's teachings.  The book Brethren Thinking written by an unconventional Old Order Anabaptist provides a highly intelligent introduction to Anabaptist thinking.  The book An Introduction to Old Order and Conservative Mennonite Groups provides a good overview of the Mennonite variants.  I specifically recommend the Mennonite groups classified as "Ultra-Conservatives" on page 162 of this book.  You can find a Mennonite church near you using this map.  You will notice that most churches are far from urban areas, and this reflects the key weakness of the Mennonites.  Their religion is not strong enough to survive in urban areas.  If you have any more questions about Mennonites, you can ask on this Mennonite forum.

I consider Islam to be the clear leading alternative to modern culture.  Islam works everywhere, in both urban and rural areas.  It is a huge and growing religion.  Most of Islam seems quite resistant to modern culture.  All decent people should at least visit their local mosque so that they can judge Islam for themselves.

Some of us find the supernatural beliefs of Christianity and Islam hard to accept.  For us, there is another alternative which is to follow the Old Testament under another good religion.  This is the Mikraite concept.  I follow the Old Testament under Islam.