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Gatestone Institute: Childless European Leaders are ‘Sleepwalking Us to Disaster’
CNS News ^ | 06/26/2017 | Theresea Smith

Posted on 06/27/2017 1:50:49 PM PDT by ForYourChildren

Because Europe’s top political leaders do not have children, they do not know what it means to be a mother or father and therefore have “no reason to worry about the future of the continent,” reported the Gatestone Institute.

The institute specifically cited the childless European leaders German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, French President Emmanuel Macron, Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven, Luxembourg's Prime Minister Xavier Bettel and Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.

“Merkel's childless status mirrors German society: 30% of German women have not had children, according to European Union statistics, with the figure rising among female university graduates to 40%,” reported Gatestone.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: childless; embraceimmigration; europe
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1 posted on 06/27/2017 1:50:49 PM PDT by ForYourChildren
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Well I found this fascinating.

As our leaders and people are childless, they tend to accept other peoples children more readily. And specifically regarding today, it is the immigrants and their children.

No children of their own, so lets let in immigrant children.

Fascinating.


2 posted on 06/27/2017 1:52:10 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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“It is not a coincidence that Merkel, who has no children, has been called ‘the compassionate mother’ of migrants,” said Gatestone. “Merkel evidently did not care if the massive influx of these migrants would change German society, probably forever.”


3 posted on 06/27/2017 1:52:48 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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Emmanuel Macron, th new French president, was labeled the “anti-family candidate,” reported Gatestone.


4 posted on 06/27/2017 1:53:44 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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Merkel's childless status mirrors German society

Angela Merkel's childless status is easily explained:

I wouldn't hit it for all the beer in Germany.

5 posted on 06/27/2017 1:54:58 PM PDT by humblegunner
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“Being a mother or a father, however, means that you have a very real stake in the future of the country you lead. Europe’s most important leaders leave no children behind.”

German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski wrote:
“for the childless, thinking in terms of the generations to come loses relevance.”


6 posted on 06/27/2017 1:56:05 PM PDT by ForYourChildren (Christian Education [ RomanRoadsMedia.com - Classical Christian Approach to Homeschool ])
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To: humblegunner

That is one really angry looking dude.


7 posted on 06/27/2017 1:58:38 PM PDT by bar sin·is·ter
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To: ForYourChildren

Absent a nation-wide revival, we are next.


8 posted on 06/27/2017 2:04:44 PM PDT by Salvavida (The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
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She also has a blog that she pimps.


9 posted on 06/27/2017 2:11:23 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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Angela Merkel, at least, did mankind a favor by not reproducing...


10 posted on 06/27/2017 2:14:05 PM PDT by Redbob (W.W.J.B.D. - What Would Jack Bauer Do?)
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11 posted on 06/27/2017 2:15:23 PM PDT by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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She also has a blog that she pimps.

heh heh heh...


12 posted on 06/27/2017 2:17:55 PM PDT by IrishBrigade
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To: ForYourChildren

Wow.


13 posted on 06/27/2017 2:22:11 PM PDT by Williams (Stop tolerating the intolerant.)
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No skin in the nihilistic game they are playing


14 posted on 06/27/2017 2:25:57 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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Procreation. That is SOOOOOOOOO 20th Century.


15 posted on 06/27/2017 2:33:08 PM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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“German philosopher Rüdiger Safranski wrote:
“for the childless, thinking in terms of the generations to come loses relevance.”

If you’re godless, yes. Believers in Christ that are single can understand the importance of families and support them. May sound strange but seeing those I’ve known divorce has been painful for ME. Watching the breakup and its effects is vexing. I’ve put time and money into those lives and I “lose” one or the other spouse when they bust up. The way it goes.


16 posted on 06/27/2017 2:54:23 PM PDT by avenir (I'm pessimistic about man, but I'm optimistic about GOD!)
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Over half of the EU leaders Pres. Trump met with last month were there with their “partners.” What a sorry example for their citizens. No one can improve on God’s design for families. It always ends badly.


17 posted on 06/27/2017 3:20:25 PM PDT by txrefugee
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No children of their own, so lets let in immigrant children.

Fascinating.

An unspoken, unacknowledged atonement for past abortions, perhaps? Quite likely.

18 posted on 06/27/2017 4:16:45 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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This is kind of creepy and bad.


19 posted on 06/27/2017 5:15:03 PM PDT by jocon307
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A de-genderizing EU will either de-populate itself or be conquered. The EU is not worth saving, although it would be better for western civilization if the Russians took over rather than the Muslims.


20 posted on 06/27/2017 5:39:33 PM PDT by Socon-Econ
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