Progressives will be furiously ignoring this development. Progressivists believe in linear history, where things just get more and more left wing. Bringing up the fact that the most progressive government in history, the Soviet Union, collapsed and had to rebuild itself as a more conservative, non-Progressive country. History is nowhere near linear.
LOL. My church sends missionaries to England and Scotland.
The end must be near.
e had two seminarians doing internships at our parish last year: one from Colombia, one from Romania.
**Hungary, Croatia, and elsewhere in Eastern Europe**
The churches in Poland were packed when I went there five years ago, but not so in Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Austria.
So to me, this is great news!
They’ll be dealing with the swelling Muslim hordes now slowly destroying Europe before they get a chance to be sent to us as missionaries. We’ll have to fend for ourselves I expect.
Good news, thank you.
Not anytime soon, they have enough problems at home. In these two countries, particularly Croatia, there have been victories for Christianity and values voters, but that does not change the fact that there is still a large element of militant secularism trying to storm the gates.
Case in point, the marriage amendment in Croatia was the brainchild of the Catholic Church, using the law as it stood to get a referendum set up and circumvent an effort that was underway to bring civil partnerships to the country. The referendum itself was decried by people across all sectors of the government. So in Croatia, you have a government that is actually further to the left than the population at large. We’ve got a long way to go in that nation to preserve it as a bulwark against Euro-headed feminization and socially engineered destruction.
Hungary has a less daunting task ahead, mainly because the left wing there is in disarray. I think Viktor Orban is someone American conservatives should study. He was a communist in his teen years, but then had a change of heart and became a leading figure in the movement to free Hungary from Soviet satellite status. He gained political acclaim for his speech during the burial of martyrs after the failed 1956 Hungarian Revolution, where he demanded Soviet troops leave Hungary for good.
A few years later, he founded Hungary’s right-wing party, Fidesz.
For a while after the fall of communism, a Orban’s first presidency, Hungary’s Socialist Party was the major political player, but throughout the 00s, Orban engineered its downfall and the rise of his own political movement.
He now has a super-majority in parliament, as a coalition government with a sister-party, the Christian Democratic People’s Party. They control 263 seats out of the total 386. What’s even more impressive is that as a further roadblock to the Hungarian left, Orban has allowed the growth of the nationalist Jobbik Party that holds a further 43 seats and would never be in coalition with the Socialists.
During his tenure, Orban has clipped the wings of the activist judiciary precisely to prevent the things we see our own leftist judges doing right here in the USA. ‘One of the main reasons the Eurocrats HATE him and wanted to haul him into European court.
A class-A politician at any rate.
It’s also worth mentioning Poland. It was a wonderful sight to see them recently torch a massive, ugly rainbow set up outside a college in a night of protest. Poland’s right wing is growing.
Ironically, American Christians may one day be moving there. The persecution is coming.