Posted on 08/15/2021 6:05:23 PM PDT by ebb tide
The brutal death of a French Catholic priest last week is grimly symbolic of liberal Europe’s direction under its open-borders ideology. The priest was beaten to death by a Rwandan immigrant to whom he had given shelter. The immigrant was a known threat to the French authorities: a year ago he had been arrested for trying to burn down the Cathedral of Nantes.
The French have become accustomed to these horrific stories in recent years. In 2020, a Tunisian immigrant beheaded a woman and killed two others at a church in the French city of Nice. In 2016, two jihadists slit the throat of a French priest, yelling “Allahu akbar” as they left the church.
European progressives, meanwhile, prattle on about the supposed glories of open borders and cheer the disappearance of Christian Europe. They fear not the rise of “Eurabia,” but the few voices of “Christian nationalism” remaining on the continent. Instead of fixing their own countries, they busy themselves with plans to ostracize figures like Orban, Hungary’s prime minister. For not following the ruinous path of his progressive peers, Orban has been denounced as “repressive.”
Tucker Carlson’s recent trip to Hungary occasioned yet another round of Orban-bashing from the progressives. Even as their own countries disintegrate, they obsess over the common-sense policies of tiny Hungary. Even as they seek to build their own one-party states, they brand Orban an autocrat.
The spectacle of liberals encouraging the spread of Islam in Europe is a very curious one. As old-style liberals such as Christopher Hitchens and Orianna Fallaci used to point out, Islam, from liberalism’s perspective, is a far more illiberal religion than Christianity.
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I doubt this author has ever visited Hungary. It may be a conservative country, but like much of Europe Christianity is essentially dead there.
Christianity is the solution. Not the problem.
European progressives are short sighted fools.
Any country that can produce an Olympic athlete like Aron Szilagyi is okay by me.
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‘But Pope Francis, unlike his predecessor, is cold to the project of a revived Christian Europe. “When I hear talk of the Christian roots of Europe, I sometimes dread the tone, which can seem triumphalist or even vengeful,” he has said. “It then takes on colonialist overtones.”’
I’m way past being surprised by anything Bergoglio says, but I still sometimes marvel at the reality of having an overtly post-Christian pope. Such a thing certainly was predicted in literature and film, but I guess I dismissed such fantasies as unlikely. Nope. Here we are.
Please note: progressives are who have broken their countries.
They never think they are to blame. The only thing they’ve ever really done is double down on heathenism and dumb.
Bring back Triumphalism!
I don't think Pope St. Pius V was either triumphalist or vengeful when the Christian fleet defeated the invading muslims at Lepanto. He gave thanks to God.
Pope Saint Pius V has a vision announcing the victory of Lepanto
"Let us return thanks to God for victory over the Turks.”
Bergoglio is an Argie, anyway.
I get that he’s not a native of Europe, but it’s still astounding on some level to have a “pope” who’s apathetic with respect to the idea that a historically Christian continent should remain so.
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