[Wombat101]

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").

[RKV]

"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.

[Rummyfan]

A sober assessment of the situation.

[ClearCase_guy]

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

[Travis McGee]

Notre Dame cathedral will be a mosque in our lifetimes.

[TXBSAFH]

Europe started dying when the killed so many Jews. A race know for its scholarship, hard work, and ingenuity. And replaced it with Muslims.

[stuartcr]

I doubt any civilisation or culture will last forever. Obituaries can be written for all.

[2banana]

"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)

[Cicero]

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.

[chilepepper]

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.

[BossLady]

"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

[Dumb_Ox]

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.

[Revolting cat!]

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'.)

[LiteKeeper]

important read -- "When Nations Die: Ten Warning Signs of a Culture in Crisis"

[alarm rider]

I have been saying for a long time that Europe is probably doomed, and the reasons are not hard to see.

[Cacique]

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