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Paradise and Utopia

Fr. John Strickland, and Ancient Faith Ministries
Paradise and Utopia
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  • Paradise and Utopia

    From Utopia to Dystopia II: Totalitarianism, Hard and Soft

    03/04/2026
    In this episode, Fr. John describes how ideological world building created not only a hard totalitarianism in the Communist dictatorship of the Soviet Union, but a perceivable "soft" totalitarianism in the liberal democracy of Cold War Western Europe and America.
  • Paradise and Utopia

    From Utopia to Dystopia I: How Christians Like C.S. Lewis Saw Nihilism for What It Was

    09/01/2026
    In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John tells how traditional Christianity provided certain critics of ideological world-building with a new way of seeing the West.
  • Paradise and Utopia

    Liberal World-Building II: American Anticommunism in the 1950s

    05/12/2025
    In this episode, Fr. John describes the anticommunist character of liberalism in America during the Cold War, noting how in its promotion of individual rights it accommodated and even emphasized religious belief, but did so conditionally.
  • Paradise and Utopia

    Liberal World Building I: When J.S. Mill met Friedrich Nietzsche

    14/11/2025
    In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John looks at the origins of the main rival to the world-Building ideologies of Communism and Nazis, American liberalism.
  • Paradise and Utopia

    Liberal World Building I: When J.S. Mill met Friedrich Nietzsche

    14/11/2025
    In this new sequence of episodes, Fr. John looks at the origins of the main rival to the world-Building ideologies of Communism and Nazis, American liberalism.
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