Eric Zemmour - France Must Return to Its Christian Roots
May 9, 2026
(Left, The die is not cast: For a Judeo-Christian revival.)
Eric Zemmour, 67, is another assimilated Jew who recognizes that Western civilization is founded on the New Testament.
Zemour has created a sensation in France where he forcefully reinserts Christianity into France's national conversation at a time of deep malaise.
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La messe n'est pas dite: Pour un sursaut judéo-chrétien (Fayard, October 22, 2025) is Éric Zemmour's latest essay, a relatively short, dense manifesto (around 128 pages) that shifts from the diagnostic pessimism of his earlier bestsellers like Le Suicide français (2014) and Le Destin français toward a call for cultural and civilizational hope.
Core Thesis and Structure: Zemmour argues that France and Europe face existential decline through aggressive dechristianization, cultural nihilism, and demographic/cultural competition with Islam. The title plays on the French idiom meaning "the matter is not settled" or "the fight isn't over," while literally evoking the Catholic Mass.
His central claim: Europe's survival depends on reclaiming its Judeo-Christian roots--Christianity as the formative force that shaped its identity, laws, art, morals, and sense of the individual. Without this, France ceases to be France.
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He draws on personal reflection (as a culturally Jewish Frenchman steeped in Christian civilization), history (from the Roman Empire and early Church through the Middle Ages, Enlightenment, and modern secularism), and contemporary observations: empty churches contrasted with growing traditionalist or charismatic Catholic youth movements, baptisms, pilgrimages, and resistance to "the void."
Zemmour contrasts this with a youth "raised in the void" facing assertive Islamic identity. He envisions a "Reconquista"-style cultural revival, not necessarily through mass conversion but through re-embracing Christianity's civilizational role--cathedrals, rites, ethics, and a sense of transcendence--to restore meaning, cohesion, and demographic vitality.
Key elements include: Emphasis on Judeo-Christian continuity (influenced by thinkers like Renan), with Christianity as Judaism's fulfillment yet distinct. Critique of universalist strains (e.g., Pauline vs. Petrine interpretations) that he sees as eroding particular identities. Advocacy for Christianity as a bulwark against both radical secularism and Islam, compatible with a strong, culturally Catholic laïcité.
(Left, Zemmour in 2022)
Strengths: Zemmour writes with his characteristic verve, erudition, and polemical clarity. The book resonates as a stimulating "profession of faith" for those alarmed by France's cultural erosion--rising church desecrations, demographic shifts, and identity vacuums. Supporters praise its optimism: after years of sounding the alarm, he highlights signs of renewal among young Catholics and calls for pride in France's Christian heritage rather than shame.
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It sold briskly upon release (tens of thousands of copies quickly), appealing to a conservative audience seeking intellectual ammunition.
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As a cultural diagnosis, it aligns with broader observations (e.g., from sociologists like Guillaume Cuchet or Jérôme Fourquet) about Catholicism's minority status in France and the appeal of visible identity.
Criticisms and Controversies: The book has sparked heated debate, as expected from Zemmour. Many Catholic and secular critics accuse him of instrumentalizing faith: treating Catholicism primarily as a political/cultural tool for identity and national strength (echoing Maurras's "political Catholicism" without personal belief), rather than a spiritual path centered on Christ, grace, and universal fraternity. He is faulted for a somewhat utilitarian view--faith as heritage and "social order" more than personal conversion or theology--and for historical simplifications or selective readings (e.g., on Judeo-Christianity or early Church divisions).
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Left-leaning and some centrist voices see it as exclusionary, mythologizing a homogeneous Christian Europe while framing Muslim immigration as the primary threat. Others note it underplays Christianity's own internal dynamics or the limits of cultural revival without genuine faith.
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Zemmour is not a theologian, and the book is explicitly a political-cultural essay, not a work of piety. This leads to valid tensions: can a civilization be revived through "rational" appreciation of religion's benefits without the underlying belief?
Overall Assessment: La messe n'est pas dite is a provocative, well-written polemic that fits Zemmour's oeuvre: insightful on civilizational decline, bold in proposing roots-based renewal, but open to charges of reducing the sacred to the political. It will energize his base and those on the identitarian right, while alienating others. Whether it sparks the "Judeo-Christian sursaut" he hopes for is uncertain--cultural shifts are slow, and faith often resists top-down projects--but it forcefully reinserts Christianity into France's national conversation at a time of deep malaise.
For fans of Zemmour's style, it's essential reading. For skeptics of his politics, it offers a clear window into his worldview. In a secularizing, fragmenting Europe, the core question it poses--can the West survive without its Christian soul?--remains urgent, regardless of one's agreement with the prescription. The Mass, as he says, is not over.
BW said (May 9, 2026):
Hello Henry! I’m surprised you took up the “topic” of Eric Zemmour….
I totally agree with “Anon”’s comment by the way. Zemmour is a Zionist, pretending to defend the Catholic faith, yet as Anon mentioned: Zemmour is for the “church” but against Christ!!
Plus, he is obviously NOT a true French patriot, since he doesn’t want nor request “FREXITING”! France cannot be a sovereign Nation without getting out of the EU and of NATO!
So, regretfully, Zemmour is not the “real deal”!
PS: I am myself originally French, white, and not Jewish, nor Muslim…
"To understand who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.”
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