Posted on 10/30/2020 11:49:20 AM PDT by CondoleezzaProtege
“Our new generations walk through our cities like strangers, they have no idea what even Easter or Christmas truly mean, or what all those stories in those beautiful stained glasses or churches tell." - Thierry Baudet
"A civilization that forgets its past is condemning its future." - Santiago Abascal
As Christianity has declined, European politics has secularized. Christian democratic parties have lost their distinctive religious identities and become generic liberal or conservative parties. At the same time, secular Green and Socialist parties have increased their percentage of the vote.
But in recent years, this political secularization has enjoyed a notable, if perhaps superficial, reverse. The rise of Islamist terrorism has made once-fringe conservative parties stress their Christian identity. The League in Italy, the National Rally in France, AfD in Germany, and Vox in Spain, among other parties, are appealing to Europe’s Christian roots to counter what they see as an imperialistic form of Islam. These parties focus more on cultural identity than faith, though they have formed alliances with genuine believers. Rémi Brague has called this political form of Christianity “Christianism.
Some of these populists see Christianity as a mere element of Europe’s cultural identity. Others genuinely believe and practice the faith. In today’s political climate, these two forces are coming together. The genuine believers are cooperating with non-believers...
While many Catholic leaders, including Pope Francis, have been openly hostile to populism, others are open to this alliance. Cardinal Müller, the former prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, recently argued that a politician who “symbolically holds up the Rosary is more to be trusted than one who literally takes down the Cross of Christ.”...
(Excerpt) Read more at firstthings.com ...
Until the faux KKKommie Pope is removed, Catholicism is a dying breed and thus Christianity is a dying breed. How much will this current faux KKKommie Pope do to the institution before he is either removed or croaks is the question.
There had better be an alternative to Islam, because a vacuum isn’t sufficient.
very good article.
deserves more attention here.
It's the non-believers who are most vocal. I don't know what that means.
Nota bene, these non-believers are totally different from the uncooperative believer in liberal democracy Andrew Sullivan.
Wait a minute. Baudet hardly uses the faith like those bleeding-heart EU lovers in parliament manage to throw open the borders on the basis of some idealized "Christian" virtue.
Why?
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