[JamesP81]

It's debatable whether Russia is a western nation at all, but if they are, then they are on the short bus of western civ.

[The_Reader_David]

Quite right. Western civilization is the one that's rapidly de-Christianizing, with only 4% of the population of Western Europe attending church at all, while in Russia, under the Soviets, when it meant loss of jobs, being put to the back of queues for apartments and the like, 40% of the population still officially registered with the government as Orthodox Christians. Western Europe can't even agree to acknowledge the Christian roots of its civilization, and here the ACLU is trying to drive Christianity completely from public discourse while defending Islamic-prosylitizaiton curriculums in California schools, while Russia reinstitutes Christian religious education in its state schools. Plainly Russia isn't a Western country.

And, no, the West can't learn a thing from Russia, except maybe how to embrace our own heritage, something we need in the face of the challenge from Islam. Secularism, which offers nothing in particular, is not the basis for a defense against the Mohammedan hordes, as the paralysis of Western Europe in general, and France in particular shows.

[YOUGOTIT]

Without the Impaler we would all be Muslim. Bring on a new Impaler.

[PLMerite]

"short bus of western civ."


Consider that stolen.

:)