Posted on 05/28/2005 7:21:59 AM PDT by voletti
In Europe religion doesn't rise to the level of burning away “in the open air”; in fact, it barely smoulders. Most European politicians would rather talk about sexually transmitted diseases than their own faith in God. The hugely bulky European constitution doesn't mention Christianity.
America's policymakers, by contrast, don't seem to talk about anything else. Look at the issues that have dominated the past week.
America's religious wars are only going to intensify. Fourteen moderate senators averted a nuclear explosion over conservative judges this week; but explosions over the issues which made those judges controversial seem all but inevitable. Just wait for the next Supreme Court ruling on abortion. Or for the next vacancy on the court to open up.
Forget today's crowing about the ceasefire in Congress. America's wars of religion will get a lot nastier before any long-lasting peace can be declared—if ever.
(Excerpt) Read more at economist.com ...
Hogwash. They just are not admired by most. Sounds like you have some sort of personal problem.
So how do you explain morality?
Spiritual Warfare.
Seriesly hugh.
Short term: The US is dealing with a lot of the Middle East issues while pseudo-intellectual Europeans pontificate about us and some made up crusade in their mind. As in the Cold War, this will be a long protracted campaign where we will pay the price in economics, blood, terror and politically.
With our GWOT all eyes are on us. All effort by AQ, Abu Saayef and others is devoted to fighting us. Iran, Syria, Libya and other are maneuvering against us and the pressure in taken off of Europe. Just years ago in France you could read about near monthly bombs blowing up in France.
If we fail, in the long run, Europe with it's declining populations, increased numbers of Muslims (France has 10%), Germany over 3.6 million.....will suffer the wrath very dearly.
Europe is flooded with Muslims, and has many extremists. Appeasement is difficult when you're dealing with people who are extremists. The Koran states verbatim that "Well destroy the infidels in ways they are not aware of". There are many passages where our destruction is advocated. What some don’t understand is that you don’t need to be Christian to be on the “hit list”. Even Buddhists are killed, and their shrines destroyed. Ask a Hindu if the Muslims are a “religion of peace”. Anything outside of the Imams paradigm and Shari law is lower than scum. It’s not deserving to live! And if they like it or not, the Europeans fall into this category. Even if they believe in nothing, are hedonistic socialists with a green and anti-American undertone, even if they want to appease the Muslims, they are still scum in the Muslim fundamentalists mind.
Open boarders, close proximity, high Muslim populations already present, high dependence on Middle Eastern oil, a decedent hedonistic culture (Love parades, liberal media, Feminism, and and and) which clashes with the Muslim paradigm combined with a Judo Christian cultural base WILL lead to a war of civilizations as some predicted. It’s just a matter of time. 70 million Muslim Turks joining the EU will only accelerate this.
Europe is in denial! Van Gogh, Madrid train, France headscarves and all the threats, France and the bombings years past and and and. The anti-American, pseudo intellectual European will casually overlook all these MINOR details.
Red6
Somebody must have told the current "Lexington" a million times not to exaggerate.
The title was so silly, I expected it to be from 'Scrappleface'.
Yes,
HOWEVER! There was a socialist movement that swept over Europe. Marx, Freud, Nietche, Hitler, Mussolini......all were Godless people. Socialism goes beyond economics. It is a region replacement.
God has left Europe!
Today many Europeans pride themselves with the fact that they are NOT religious. As if only stupid people believe in such an absurd thing as "God". Cathedrals and churches are visited from a historical perspective. It’s like visiting a museum, but it’s not about warship anymore. Religion is studied in schools. But it’s not practiced.
Red6
People have to live with each other. They try to find the best ways to do it.
Historically, Europe has been fertile ground for religious wars and religious intolerance. A little more than 60 years ago Jews were being murdered on a grand scale just because of their religion. Anti-semitism is running rampant throughout France and countries like Holland and Denmark must now deal with a growing threat from militant Islam. France and Germany are trying to deal with increasing muslim minorities in their midst who are not interested in assimilation.
Albania and Serbia are engaged in essentially a religious war. Nothern Ireland still has an ongoing, now less violent, religious war. The UK has a state church, the Church of England. In Germany religion is taught in the public schools.
Which all suggests that America's religious wars are only going to intensify. Fourteen moderate senators averted a nuclear explosion over conservative judges this week; but explosions over the issues which made those judges controversial seem all but inevitable. Just wait for the next Supreme Court ruling on abortion. Or for the next vacancy on the court to open up.
The author uses terms of violence, but the fact is that Americans are not engaging in physical acts of violence in the name of religion. It is happening in Europe however in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Holland, Germany, and France to name a few. The article buys the Dem line about the threat of the religious right.
You don't have to be religious to appreciate the arguments against abortion. Freely killing your offspring has already had devastating effects on a number of social issues.
Just goes to show how shallow left thinking really is.
So is the DNC. Your point?
I think it's more accurate to say, Europe has left God.
One night I dreamed a dream. I was walking along the beach with my Lord. Across the dark sky flashed scenes from my life. For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand, one belonging to me and one to my Lord.When the last scene of my life shot before me I looked back at the footprints in the sand. There was only one set of footprints. I realized that this was at the lowest and saddest times of my life. This always bothered me and I questioned the Lord about my dilemma.
"Lord, You told me when I decided to follow You, You would walk and talk with me all the way. But I'm aware that during the most troublesome times of my life there is only one set of footprints. I just don't understand why, when I need You most, You leave me."
He whispered, "My precious child, I love you and will never leave you, never, ever, during your trials and testings. When you saw only one set of footprints, It was then that I carried you."
Christians are motivated by their religious values in most wars, but that doesn't make them religious wars. The American revolution was a war for political freedom. In contrast, the French revolution was, in large part, a war against the Catholic Church.
But of course the bloodiest war of religion that was fought in the west (unless you count the battles to stave off Muslim invasions) was the Thirty Years War between Protestants and Catholics. If there was one war in which you can fault Christians for being fanatically bloodthirsty, that was it. The reaction to that war was one reason why the Age of Enlightenment pulled back from religion in the public sphere and in the general culture. That happened in Europe, but nothing like it has ever happened here.
Like all trash in modern day journalism.
Their premise is a lie and then the selectively edit facts to promote the premise.
The US has not been even in one religious war therefore religious wars cannot continue.
And one which we have since forgotten.
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