Recently Theodore Roosevelt Malloch posted an article entitled, "The death of Europe", first outlining his personal history and his affection for everything European, calling himself an Europhile in order to give credence to the "deep sense of disappointment and true sadness" over what he sees for Europe. He explains:
"Europe’s churches are empty, mass on Sundays, in any Gothic cathedral, is virtually unattended, except for a handful of tourists, vacant. The actual celebration of Mass is typically conducted in a side chapel, fit for the dozen or so worshipers who show up for service. Europe is adrift without a soul and evolving rapidly away from its moorings."Europe has not only abandoned the very Judaic/Christian ethic that created Western culture, it has become virtually hostile to it. Quoting Georger Weigel in his book,” The Cube and the Cathedral,” he says:
“European man has convinced himself that in order to be modern and free, he must be radically secular,” “That conviction and its public consequences are at the root of Europe’s contemporary crisis of civilizational morale.”To even include any reference to Europe's Christian roots in the European Union's Constitutional treaty became an area of contention. Only grudgingly did they include, “the cultural, religious, and humanist inheritance of Europe.....which was shoehorned into the preamble’s first clause".
Europe's stomach for Christianity goes only as far as enjoying long holidays, along with the true religion of Europe - socialism - which gives them a good material life, short work hours, generous government benefits in exchange for minimal effort and output. They exchanged Christianity for three hots and a cot, and no moral restrictions. All of which history has shown to be a formula for social disaster. History that's incontestable!
Then he goes on to ask this question: Dare we ask what is the deeper source of European antipathy to religion?
He blames scholars going back to the 14th century who disabused concepts such as justice, freedom, good and evil, human nature and "no universal moral truth". That made religion a form of "oppression" based on "myth". This became a concept Europe's elite embraced as a form of liberation and now "look down on their American and Third World cousins who continue to believe in such irrational flights of fancy."
Europe is doomed because it's now "religiously bereft, demographically moribund and morally without a compass" He goes on to note: “The muezzin summons the faithful to prayer from the central loggia of St. Peter’s in Rome, while Notre-Dame has been transformed into Hagia Sophia on the Seine – a great Christian church become an Islamic museum.”
Europe has severed itself from that which made it great. There is no Charles Martel in France, there is no Jon Sobieski in Poland and European society is lost in a fog of incomprehension, confusion, delusion, enrapt with the myth that socialism brings utopia. They've abandoned, ignored and re-written their own history, and for what? Islam? And who's to blame. The author blames the European philosophers and ruling elites. Clearly they were part of the problem, but he's missing the real source of blame - church leaders. They abandoned Judaic/Christian ethic long before their congregants, and now it's caught up to them all.
The author goes on to say: America is now alone in defending freedom and upholding the tradition of faith and reason. That's not going to last either, and for the same reasons. Our secular leaders are traitors and our religious leaders are heretics! Is it any wonder so many are so confused.
Do you doubt that? Look at who are the top candidates the Democratic and Republican parties running for President of the United States. An insane and incompetent communist - and I don't care what Sanders calls himself: An insane, incompetent un-indicated criminal who everyone openly acknowledges is the biggest liar to ever run for the job, and that's saying something: A narcissistic egomaniac who's almost as big a liar as Hillary: And a legitimate conservative who's clearly the only one qualified for the job, and the leaders of his party, which claims to be tbe party of conservatism, hate him.
I think I can honestly say - I'm not really optimistic!
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