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Europe's Scoffing Its Way to Annihilation
[American Thinker] I spoke with two Germans, several weeks before the Paris Islamist attacks, on religion, ideology, and the future of Europe. I predicted to them that Germany will be consumed by Islam due to the hordes now invading. Both Germans were serenely, unperturbedly dismissive.He is a captain of industry, middle-aged, brilliant. The world is his oyster, and he is in great command of industrial and financial trade. Married with children, he lives in London and guffaws at the idea of Islamist takeover on the mainland. She is a neuroscience graduate student, fully persuaded that religion is completely irrelevant and that these ripples of medievalism will surely die out as the Muslims settle down to the prosperity of economy. Evidence, for both of my German friends, need not interfere with the exaltation complexes that blind them. The question is why. Europe is convinced -- utterly -- of the superiority of its civilization. Europe today has no questions. It "knows" there's no God. It knows that socialism in a secular liberal democracy is supreme. It knows that atheistic science is the only science allowed to be done. It knows that wanton sex isn't just a right, but an entertainment industry orthogonal to morality. It knows that abortion is a shrug of the shoulders and that the bearing of children in marriage is a most improbable occurrence -- but when the Leonids return, it might be considered in an academic paper. The continent "knows" that religion is a thing of the past. And it knows that the march towards dissolution of personal sovereignty, national sovereignty, is an inevitable fact of evolution, evolution being the unquestionable god of all things. And all that evidence-free fundamentalist secular-liberal certainty is becoming Europe's complete undoing. Posted by: Besoeker 2015-11-22 |
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