On August 2, 1776, the Founders filed into Independence Hall and affixed their names to the Declaration, each understanding the act as a covenant sworn in the presence of God. Those who now rewrite this event as an Enlightenment exercise serve the Dispossessor's project of severing the American people from their Christian origins.

On November 10, 1793, French revolutionaries turned the high altar of Notre-Dame into a stage and crowned a woman the Goddess of Reason. They meant to sever France from fifteen centuries of Christian order.

The Acropolis Museum has canceled archaeologist Mario Trabucco della Torretta's invitation to speak because he refuses to demand the return of the Elgin Marbles from the British Museum. This act of exclusion reveals the repatriation movement's refusal to tolerate any defense of the centuries-long stewardship that placed those sculptures under British protection.

Revisionist scholars now rewrite Homer's Odyssey to sever its hero from his fatherland and household, recasting the epic as a tale of rootless wandering. This assault on the foundational text of Western literature reveals the same spirit that dismantled the altars and borders of Christendom.