[presidio9]

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[LurkedLongEnough]

Don't worry, this should fix everything.

The United States has launched an Arabic-language lifestyle magazine for young men and women across the Middle East. The government hopes the publication, called Hi, will change America's image among 18 to 35 year olds in the Arab world.

[F16Fighter]

Excellent post....

Around the developed world, it is clear that aggressive secularist lobbies are now assailing Christianity. By the imposition of so-called anti-hate laws and enforcement of ethical aberrations abhorrent to Christians, believers are to be presented with the stark alternatives of coming to a self-serving accommodation with the forces of evil, or incurring legal and social penalties amounting to persecution. How many will stand up to be counted?

Culture War stamped all over it.

[King Black Robe]

Bump

[NYer]

How could one persuade a moderate Muslim, from Iraq or anywhere else, who has a deep-seated religious faith, prays at set hours of the day, enjoys a secure family life and lives in a community where these conditions are universal, of the benefits of embracing the western lifestyle?

We have met the enemy .... and it is us!

The Brits are a bit late to the scene but, not surprisingly, on target with this review. Excellent post! Thanks.

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[Polycarp IV]

This is a short but masterful reflection on the current social climate. Definitely worth a quick read!

Ping. (As usual, if you would like to be added to or removed from my "conservative Catholics" ping list, just send me a FReepmail. Please realize that some of my "ping" posts are long.)

[Thorin]

Thanks for posting this great piece.

The author is especially perceptive when he writes about how Moslems perceive us. Inundating the Islamic world with condoms, pornography, and abortions, as some neocons seem to want, will not win us friends in the Mideast. Nor should it.

[AAABEST]

This is an excellent post.

[truthandlife]

Good find

[qam1]

The world of paganism, just as it was before the original triumph of Christianity, is bleak. For all its token deference to the interests of the weak, it is a devil-take-the-hindmost, bread-and-circuses society in which the unborn are torn from the womb and, increasingly, the elderly infirm are to be killed off for the convenience of the young and active. Even some people of no religious affiliation are becoming alarmed at the violence and disorder of a society lacking any moral compass.

Talk about hypocracy, The 1st part of the article whines about Christian bashing then it goes on to bash other religions.

Spearheaded by the media, all decency and reticence are being trampled down. Among the young, in particular, where parents (if they have any) have abdicated their responsibility, ‘peer pressure’ exerts a gravitational pull downward to the lowest common denominator. It is evasive and trite to claim that we have been here before: we have not. There have been periods of decadence in human history; but they did not result in the dissolution of the basic unit of civilisation - the family - as is the case today. Ours is an unexampled decadence.

And in the REAL world

1) Atheist/Agnostic are ~15% of the population yet make up just  0.2% of the prison population

2) From 1991 to 2001 in the USA, The Number of the non-religious doubled in number while at the same time the number calling themselves Christians declined by 10% this decline in Christianity is especially seen in young people.

As Christianity declined violent crime rate has declined through this period, as well as The pregnancy rate for unmarried women has continuously declined through the 1990s and the abortion rate dropped by about 25 percent for both married and unmarried women through the 1990s , The teen Pregnancy Rate Reached a Record Low, More Teenagers are saying no to sex and Drug use by teenagers continues to decline.

If lack of Christianity leads to great evil and poor morals the opposite should be happening but it isn't because religion and morals don't corrolate.

By what right does the developed world claim the moral high ground over poorer, but religiously devout, societies?

Because the Relgiousness of a country has nothing to do with it's morals. Modern day Japan for example is for all practical purposes an Atheist country yet their society doesn't under go anything near the chaos and turmoil of Latin American countries which are very Christian. 

Their irrelevant tinkerings will not stem the haemhorrage of indifferent Catholics out of the Church, nor prevent the increasing return to tradition and the Tridentine Mass of the surviving serious faithful.

Nor will hypocritical tripe like this article "Stem the Haemhorrage"

On the historic Good Friday, "there was darkness over the whole earth until the ninth hour"; but that black pall was soon to be eclipsed by the brilliance and glory of the Resurrection.

And the Romans failed to note this remarkable event in their historical documents, Yeah whatever.

[Aquinasfan]

It is evasive and trite to claim that we have been here before: we have not. There have been periods of decadence in human history; but they did not result in the dissolution of the basic unit of civilisation - the family - as is the case today. Ours is an unexampled decadence.

Well said.