[MtnClimber]

Regrettably, they fail to appreciate how precious it really is.

Unless it is intentional destruction of Western Civilization. I think this is the case.

[Right_Wing_Madman]

In 1913, you could take a train from Paris, France to St. Petersburg, Russia and you didn't have to show a passport or visa anywhere along the way. The open borders system of Europe in the late 1800s and early 1900s collapsed in 1914.

It would take until the 1960s for Europe and the United States to open their borders again, and we're at the same point now. Rinse and repeat. Nobody learns anything.

[PGalt]

True. Barbarians Without Borders will annihilate any civilization. Witness current events worldwide.

[Brian Griffin]

The asylum process of taking in people who can’t even get along with people nearly identical to themselves needs to end.

[SMARTY]

“... immigrants whose ethnic prejudices, brutality, and contempt for democratic values generate conflict...”

This is so familiar. If you ever read about the Bronze Age Collapse, it's pretty much the same scenario

Cultures on their way to developed writing, archaeology, technology, agricultural advances, etc. ... getting run over by waves of crude, barbaric and wholly brutish groups!

[Uncle Miltie]

“islam” and “muslim” are not in the article, so this author completely misses the point for Europe.

[T Ruth]

"An Atheist’s Take on the Decline of Christianity" (April 17, 2024):

In an interview with LBC in London, famed atheist Richard Dawkins offered two startling admissions: first, that he mourned the loss of much of what reflects the Christian faith in the world, and second, that he would consider himself a “cultural” Christian. He stated:

“I do think we are culturally a Christian country. I call myself a cultural Christian. I’m not a believer, but there is a distinction between being a believing Christian and a cultural Christian … I love hymns and Christmas carols and I sort of feel at home in the Christian ethos, and I feel that we are a Christian country in that sense … [I] would not be happy if, for example, we lost all our cathedrals and our beautiful parish churches.”

Dawkins even added that if he had to choose between Christianity and Islam, he would choose Christianity every single time: “It seems to me to be a fundamentally decent religion, in a way that I think Islam is not.”