Posted on 11/22/2015 2:25:51 PM PST by campg
Europe is dying. Its culture has been coming apart since World War I, and it is now almost gone.
Western culture is beginning its descent in America as well.
It is a tragedy, and many people will have their lives made miserable and many more will die before it is resolved.
Yet there are some who actually celebrate the death of western Christian culture. They act like petulant children, incapable of imagining that they could ever drown, who are drilling holes through the bottom of their boat because a service provider didn’t smile at them. They are so myopic all they can see is race and gender and historical slights. What irony!
Non-Western cultures did not move the world away from slavery. Slavery was accepted as a part of life by the indigenous peoples of the Western Hemisphere, and by almost all societies in the world including the peoples of Eastern and African cultures. Radical Islamists are still forcing people into slavery.
It was the Western Christian culture that managed to abolish slavery over most of the world, and on England’s part at great cost.
It was not the non-Western cultures that moved the world away from the oppression of women. Women are second-class people in almost every culture on the planet that has not yet accepted Western values.
There are people of genius everywhere, but most of the scientific innovation came from Western Christian cultures for centuries. And no, it wasn’t a cosmic accident.
Where did the acceptance of freedom, equality and democracy come from? These are not universal values. Yes, they are ancient and could be found sporadically in a number of cultures, especially around the Mediterranean, but who made them real and applied them to entire nations?
Culture is carried primarily by values, language and religion, and if it is not taught to the children it dies. Neither can a culture be maintained if its society is overwhelmed with millions of people from another culture who do not wish to be enculturated. Either one culture will die, or the two will go to war.
Diversity is wonderful if people have the same foundational values; it is a recipe for disaster if they don’t.
Relativists are loath to imagine one culture may be superior to another, and while it may be true all cultures have positive attributes, the mass immigrations to Europe and to the United States and Canada show definitively that some cultures are better to live in than others.
Pause Current Time 0:00 / Duration Time 0:00 Loaded: 0%Progress: 0%0:00 Fullscreen 00:00 Mute The radicals who attacked Paris were very clear about what they were about. Europe, they say, is decadent, and it is full of sin. When a clash of values such as this exists, there are only three ways it can be resolved. One side can capitulate, one or both sides can wage war against the other, or one side can try to convert the other. The Islamic radicals have decided to go to war.
The European leadership caste is so deep into internationalism and moral relativism it literally cannot act to save itself. It has decided to capitulate by pretending there is no problem, or by pretending culture doesn’t really matter.
They will drop a few bombs on some mud huts out in the desert and then attack members of their own society who want mass immigration controlled.
Many American leaders have apparently made the same choice.
Last week, I was listening to Bach’s "Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring" in voice and violin while trying to complete some work when I realized I was too full of emotion to continue. The music was incredibly beautiful, but I began to realize I was becoming increasingly sad. Just as someone would mourn the passing of a flawed but brilliant friend, I was mourning the death of a culture that could produce such beauty, and concurrently, unparalleled advances in medicine, science and human well-being.
The world will not be a better place when it’s gone.
But what caused the existence of Obama?
An ALCOHOLIC Muzzy POLYGAMIST and a LIBERAL Progressive atheist = an Egotiscal POS P-Whipped AAA*
*AAA Affirmative Action Anus
First Europe, and now America are being destroyed by self loathing whites ashamed to accept the truth that one race, their own white race, could possibly have developed a civilization superior to another race.
Respectfully, I believe that the rise of Barack Obama is a symptom, not a cause.
Imagine after the Jap sneak attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 an America sick enough to elect an America hating Jap as president and open the borders to an influx of America hating Japs.
But isn’t that exactly what has happened after the muslim sneak attack on 9/11/2001?
The seeds of our own destruction were planted by American liberals long before muslims destroyed the World Trade Center and before Barack Obama was elected president.
Lest you take the lack of response to your comment as a generalized agreement, let me state: You’re an ass.
Agreed - and disregard those who disagree.
With 5 grandchildren we are so with you. It is so reassuring to know you are out there with eyes wide open and ability to see through the fog. Thanks so much.
With you. Praying every day for people like you to stand up.
I think the wheel was a great contribution to society. Thanks;-)
Wow, do we need him today.
More than ever.
With the right leadership we can save our country from decay, but it will take a huge awakening. The 19 trillion will blow us up if the Islamists don’t. Keep praying.
Ironic that Democrats are silent on the War on Women being waged by Islamists. Makes Clinton’s War on Women pale in comparison.
We have a Pakistani-American Pastor. He loves freedom and knows the other side being raised Christian in Muslim society. Christians are openly discriminated against. 95% of Christians are street sweepers in Pakistan. It is people like our Methodist Minister who can bring the world together and unify God’s flock. It is the Extremist elements that are overflowing with hate and evil. Keep praying. Thanks for your comment.
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