I actually like this guy. Interesting read. I've been finding more of his stuff online lately.
Not bad for a Belgian (or as I like to call them "French-Light").
1 posted on
02/23/2006 11:40:16 AM PST by
Wombat101
To: Wombat101
"a civilization that no longer believes in its own future also rejects procreation" if this were true secular China would see its population fall. This is not true.
2 posted on
02/23/2006 11:43:01 AM PST by
RKV
( He who has the guns, makes the rules.)
To: Wombat101
A sober assessment of the situation.
3 posted on
02/23/2006 11:44:02 AM PST by
Rummyfan
To: Wombat101
This is just the beginning of the beginning. Indeed.
"This is not the beginning of the end. It is, perhaps, the end of the beginning." -- Churchill
To: Wombat101
Notre Dame cathedral will be a mosque in our lifetimes.
5 posted on
02/23/2006 11:45:03 AM PST by
Travis McGee
(--- www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com ---)
To: Wombat101
Europe started dying when the killed so many Jews. A race know for its scholarship, hard work, and ingenuity. And replaced it with Muslims.
6 posted on
02/23/2006 11:46:13 AM PST by
TXBSAFH
(Proud Dad of Twins, What Does Not Kill You Makes You Stronger!!!!!!)
To: Wombat101
I doubt any civilisation or culture will last forever. Obituaries can be written for all.
7 posted on
02/23/2006 11:46:17 AM PST by
stuartcr
(Everything happens as God wants it to.....otherwise, things would be different.)
To: Wombat101
"Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."
--Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill (1874-1965),_The Gathering Storm,_bk.I ch.19 p.348 (Houghton Mifflin, 1948)
8 posted on
02/23/2006 11:47:27 AM PST by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: Wombat101
Please. French lite.
Yes, this is an excellent article. And, as it says, America will follow Europe unless we learn from Europe's fate.
But the problem with that is that you cannot become a real Christian for political purposes or because it's a winning strategy. You have to believe in it. For that, we have to rely on God.
The early Englightenment rationalists agreed that, for political purposes it was important that the mass of people should believe in the afterlife, because without that threat of divine reward or punishment, what would make them behave morally? But when belief in the afterlife becomes a method of political control, not a true Christian belief, it is bound to grow feeble and evaporate.
If a miracle were to take place in Europe and reverse their decline and fall, it would have to be a divine miracle. No use saying that it would be expedient if people would act like Christians. Expediency doesn't cut much ice.
11 posted on
02/23/2006 11:49:41 AM PST by
Cicero
(Marcus Tullius)
To: Wombat101
only half of Belgium is "french-lite" - the other (better) half is Flemish and decidedly
not French.
as you would expect, Brussels, the seat NATO bureaucrats and of the EU Parliament, is well inside the French side of Belgium.
13 posted on
02/23/2006 11:54:06 AM PST by
chilepepper
(The map is not the territory -- Alfred Korzybski)
To: Wombat101
"The coming decade will witness the war between the values of Islam and the secular values of the decadent, hedonistic post-Marxist Left"
Now THIS sounds like a party! :o
22 posted on
02/23/2006 12:10:35 PM PST by
BossLady
(Islam: Any excuse for a Jihad!)
To: Wombat101
I worry these sentiments will just scare the remaining decent Europeans into emigrating or joining in the capitulation. Reagan succeeded with the polyannaesque slogan "It's Morning in America!" This guy talks like Jimmy "Malaise" Carter.
40 posted on
02/23/2006 1:02:17 PM PST by
Dumb_Ox
(http://kevinjjones.blogspot.com)
To: Wombat101
How much greener is the grass, isn't it. I wouldn't be writing Europe's obituary just as yet. Europe is waking up, while we, our leaders, continue to babble about religion of peace. The elites over there are hopeless as they are over here, but the masses, the football hooligans, the skinheads, the salt of the earth will start kicking ass, sooner or later, wait and see (and will be reported here as 'racist neo-nazis'.)
43 posted on
02/23/2006 2:36:54 PM PST by
Revolting cat!
("In the end, nothing explains anything.")
To: Wombat101
important read -- "When Nations Die: Ten Warning Signs of a Culture in Crisis"
46 posted on
02/23/2006 7:49:26 PM PST by
LiteKeeper
(Beware the secularization of America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
To: Wombat101
I have been saying for a long time that Europe is probably doomed, and the reasons are not hard to see.
52 posted on
02/24/2006 9:07:57 AM PST by
alarm rider
(Irritating leftists as often as is humanly possible....)
To: Cacique
55 posted on
02/24/2006 7:37:52 PM PST by
Cacique
(quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat ( Islamia Delenda Est ))
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