There’s an old saying that goes like this. Some people make things happen. Some people watch things happen. Then there are those who wonder what happened. Europe today fall into the latter.
At a recent conference in Switzerland, student representatives asked: how could the Muslim population gain traction so quickly in Western Europe? One answer is the disparity between Christian and Muslim birthrates and immigration patterns. But that’s only one small part of the reason. In a commentary by Herbert London, he lists five socio-political underpinning that have transformed Europe from distinct freedom loving nations into Eurabia.
- The first of these is multiculturalism, an attitude which suggests each culture should be treated on its own terms without regard to universal considerations. For example, female deformation in the form of clitoridectomy is not wrong; it is simply the manifestation of a different culture.”
- The second, and arguably the view that represents the most significant shift in European attitudes, is secular humanism, a turning away from the spiritual to the temporal. European churches are now ostensibly museums, not places of worship. The moral teachings of Christianity have been largely interred and replaced by relativism or “new age” phenomenology, such as pantheistic environmentalism.
- The third shift in attitude might be characterized as extreme liberalism. In this case, the virtues of liberalism such as tolerance have been perverted into an unwillingness to discriminate. Right and wrong are seen as archaic concepts belonging to the ash heap of history. What counts is openness, a strange form of egalitarianism in which all opinions have equal value if rendered earnestly.
- The fourth attitudinal consideration is transnationalism. A project to reduce or eliminate the national heritage of European states through Continental harmonization has had the unintended effect of making citizens rudderless, of losing an identity and deracinating patriotism.
- Last is the loss of confidence. The retreat of apostolic teaching has resulted in an absence of authority. Catholicism is in retreat, not only as a religion but as a voice of moral conviction.
London hits the nail on the head and Europe will have a long hard road to hoe if it’s to retrieve its culture from the jaws of a medieval civilization. We can only hope that America will learn from Europe’s lesson and not put socialist liberals like Hillary Clinton, John Kerry or Gore – or anyone else of their ilk - in the White House in 2008.
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