Posted on 11/22/2015 2:25:51 PM PST by campg
Europe is dying. Its culture has been coming apart since World War I, and it is now almost gone.
Western culture is beginning its descent in America as well.
It is a tragedy, and many people will have their lives made miserable and many more will die before it is resolved.
Yet there are some who actually celebrate the death of western Christian culture. They act like petulant children, incapable of imagining that they could ever drown, who are drilling holes through the bottom of their boat because a service provider didn’t smile at them. They are so myopic all they can see is race and gender and historical slights. What irony!
Non-Western cultures did not move the world away from slavery. Slavery was accepted as a part of life by the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, and by almost all societies in the world including the peoples of Eastern and African cultures. Radical Islamists are still forcing people into slavery.
It was the Western Christian culture that managed to abolish slavery over most of the world, and on England’s part at great cost.
It was not the non-Western cultures that moved the world away from the oppression of women. Women are second-class people in almost every culture on the planet that has not yet accepted Western values.
There are people of genius everywhere, but most of the scientific innovation came from Western Christian cultures for centuries. And no, it wasn’t a cosmic accident.
Where did the acceptance of freedom, equality and democracy come from? These are not universal values. Yes, they are ancient and could be found sporadically in a number of cultures, especially around the Mediterranean, but who made them real and applied them to entire nations?
Culture is carried primarily by values, language and religion, and if it is not taught to the children it dies. Neither can a culture be maintained if its society is overwhelmed with millions of people from another culture who do not wish to be enculturated. Either one culture will die, or the two will go to war.
Diversity is wonderful if people have the same foundational values; it is a recipe for disaster if they don’t.
Relativists are loath to imagine one culture may be superior to another, and while it may be true all cultures have positive attributes, the mass immigrations to Europe and to the United States and Canada show definitively that some cultures are better to live in than others.
Pause Current Time 0:00 / Duration Time 0:00 Loaded: 0%Progress: 0%0:00 Fullscreen 00:00 Mute The radicals who attacked Paris were very clear about what they were about. Europe, they say, is decadent, and it is full of sin. When a clash of values such as this exists, there are only three ways it can be resolved. One side can capitulate, one or both sides can wage war against the other, or one side can try to convert the other. The Islamic radicals have decided to go to war.
The European leadership caste is so deep into internationalism and moral relativism it literally cannot act to save itself. It has decided to capitulate by pretending there is no problem, or by pretending culture doesn’t really matter.
They will drop a few bombs on some mud huts out in the desert and then attack members of their own society who want mass immigration controlled.
Many American leaders have apparently made the same choice.
Last week, I was listening to Bach’s "Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring" in voice and violin while trying to complete some work when I realized I was too full of emotion to continue. The music was incredibly beautiful, but I began to realize I was becoming increasingly sad. Just as someone would mourn the passing of a flawed but brilliant friend, I was mourning the death of a culture that could produce such beauty, and concurrently, unparalleled advances in medicine, science and human well-being.
The world will not be a better place when it’s gone.
It is not “western culture”, it is WHITE culture, and it requires white people who value themselves and their race and their race’s values to preserve it. We don’t need “new leadership” - we need an awakening among people of European extraction to their shared identity.
Western civilization is also willingly being surrendered in the name of tolerance and cultural sensitivity. Political correctness would end even a secular celebration of Christmas for fear of offending Muslims. However Muslim culture is celebrated and included even though Islam is the most intolerant of all cultures. Liberals who shriek war on women for anything they see as limiting abortion, yet are strangely silent when Muslim countries treat women as little more than cattle. Muslims in western countries get away with child marriage, honor killings, gentital mutilation and the mistreatment of women because of political correctness. No one dares raise these issues as being barbaric and having no place in civilized western society for fear of offending Muslims who perpetrate these barbarities.
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That is so ironic. Just this past Friday night I, too, was listening to Bach’s Jesu and I, too, teared up thinking such beauty as that piece will pass from mankind when the barbarians triumph. At the same time I was filled with disgust at the thought that there are those among us who are responsible for bringing about Western civilization’s end.
Because some cultures ARE better than others.
In this chapter, the Left goes beyond equivalence; our culture is not only not better, it is so awful that we should invite the barbarians in to put a stake through the heart of our republic.
In America 2015, every maxim associated with our founding is a thought crime. Whites are not equal, they are oppressors who not only deserve no protection from the law, but should be exterminated for the crimes of their ancestors.
Elections alone cannot reverse our slide.
That all began in the ‘60s when the SDSers etc. went around chanting: “ HEY, HEY, HO, HO, WESTERN CIV HAS GOT TO GO!” on college campi.
Things have been bleak before, but have been held together by just a precious few with the commitment to doing so. This series might give you some hope:
A superb article.
Here is the sunufabich who has decided its his prerogative to destroy the traditions, the culture, the people and heritage that I love.
Because they do not please him personally .
Damn him.
Thanks you liberal, idiot morons who vote for him...twice. You and your children are getting what you asked for, but the rest of us do not deserve it.
Sorry, can’t be distracted right now, Hawks game.
(Reality bites)
Ronald Reagan
Can anybody point to any country at any time anywhere in the past 1400 years of the bloody history of this Muslim cult, where any country or it's culture or tranquility was improved by Muslim immigration or the imposition of Muslim culture or religion?
Any country? Anybody?
I didn't think so.
Then why in h*ll are we importing massive hordes of them into our country now like it doesn't matter?
I’m pretty optimistic all in all. Politics are of course a complete disaster, but once you get into the less political parts of our society, things are actually doing notso bad.
In the long run, the lukewarm will be spit from society’s mouth. Christianity, our children, and our values will prevail. Those who subscribe to the sort of meh humanist philosophy that is oh so popular will die out soon enough.
They can only kill us if we let them. Let’s get our heads out of the boob tube and start living for Jesus for real. This means we must cease the circled wagon mentality and courageously get out there and win hearts and souls for the Lord Jesus Christ our fearless Commander. Pages forever could be written about His wonderfulness.
But what caused the existence of Obama?
If it wasn't Obama, it would have been Deval Patrick, or Harold Ford Jr.
There is a deep sickness that preceded and caused "Obama".
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