What is Edenism?
• …Edenism [is] a determined, even if unconscious, attempt to bring about a world in which dreams will coincide with history, plus the optimism required to believe that such a thing is possible. …Edenism goes naturally with a belief in demons, for Hell is needed to accomodate those unworthy of Heaven, and especially the heretics who doubt the existence of both. …Edenists are, as it were, nostalgic for the future. They are already licking their lips at the thought of a future which resembles a fine old wine certified by the supreme authority: “Not to be drunk for … years.” – Jacques Givet, “The Anti-Zionist Complex” • …we seem to have stumbled upon an underlying theme; that certain people, perhaps all people to some degree, are driven by this quest for Paradise [or Heaven, Eden, Utopia, Euphoria…], such people are called Edenists. Depending upon the believer’s desire or the fragility of the foundations of that belief, those who, by their philosophy or very existence, threate
