Posted on 12/08/2021 2:49:41 PM PST by george76
It is a country where so-called "dead churches", can be viewed and purchased on the Internet, Even a synagogue became a mosque...
The Catholic Church in the Netherlands has entered such an unstoppable spiral, according to research by the Trouw newspaper, that eight out of ten parishes are in the red and will have to be closed.
From 1970 to 2008, 400 Catholic churches were demolished or converted. Since then, the rate has accelerated dramatically. Two churches, on average, close every week. One fifth of all the churches in Holland have already been converted.
Holland still has six thousand churches. Up to 80 percent of these will lose their religious function in the coming years. There is a shortage of money and faithful and demolition is looming.
Also sold was the Cathedral of St. Catherine in Utrecht, bought by the adjacent museum of religious art. Since 1853 all the priests of Holland were consecrated in that cathedral.
Fifty years ago there were 2.7 million "active" Catholics in the Netherlands. In 2016 there were 173,000. By 2030, there will be just over 63,000.
Between 1970 and 1985, Dutch Catholics fell by 70 percent.
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Cardinal Wim Eijk himself explained to the newspaper De Gelderlander that Christianity in Holland is nearing its end. Within ten years, he said, within the archdiocese of Utrecht, the largest and in theory the most active in the whole of Holland, only 15 of the current 280 churches will continue to celebrate mass. One fifth of all Dutch churches have already been converted to other uses. And a Trouw study shows that 25 churches have been converted into mosques.
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A synagogue in The Hague has been converted into the Al Aqsa mosque.
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Holland is the Catholic area of the Netherlands, and outside of that is more Protestant.
The irony is that those denominations which adapted themselves to current fashion in order to be “relevant” and appeal to “the young generation” are the ones on the quickest route to irrelevancy, if not extinction.
“So tolerant and open that they have destroyed their own culture. I believe Rotterdam is actually majority muslim.”
When the obituaries of the Western Nations are written in 15 or so years, the remaining historians (in Russia and China) will conclude that the ‘tolerance’ culture of Western society gave Muslims the PERFECT PATH to take over, without even needing to fire a shot.
Yikes, the Netherlands is history.
How dumb.
“And the sad part is… it seems to WANT to die.”
Agree, it’s a combination of incredible guilt for all of the violence of the 20th century, coupled with people at the very top who were able to seize upon this guilt to ensure the complete destruction of Western Society.
But the 50.7 % “none” are the now secularized nominally Protestant which brings Protestant up to 65%.
This is simply a repetition of the islamic conquest of Spain many centuries ago...
Just the strategy has changed, with the sword being replaced by migration...
Now the swords come out after they have invaded...
Charles Martel weeps.
“Now the swords come out after they have invaded...”
Yes, I think it was Richard Spencer that had a chart about how things change as the percentage of Muslims in a country grows.
I seem to remember that the open violence starts taking off at 5% Muslim.
The Belgian Islamic party Partij Islam have declared their intention to create an Islamic State in which women and men have to ride in separate buses.
As the old joke goes, the last two people on earth will be muslim and one will kill the other for not being muslim enough.
Maybe Moscow is the “Third Rome” after all.
From IsraelNationalNews.com?
Is it a lot more rapey now?
that is a good description of the death of Dutch Christianity. How about an equally good description of the growth of Islam, and how it was achieved.
Here’s a leading indicator of the decline of a culture:
The birth rate in the Netherlands is 1.57 births per woman (2019).
“...I visited Amsterdam. I was harassed by Arabs, Muslims...”
Have you checked out Minneapolis? Starting at the airport, then public transportation, then wherever - Muslims
Actually, secular hedonism and atheism replaced Christianity, and then, since no one can live that way, Islam replaced secular hedonism and atheism.
Exactly right.
Enjoy the diversity where everyone is exactly the same, women wear burkas, and all pray 5 times a day as the loud speaker blares your prayers.
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