An excellent column today by Dennis Prager speaks the truth about what is happening to France, Europe, and Western Civilization. It is well worth the read.
Excerpt:
With the end of World War II, every internal Western intellectual doctrine was secular. God, the Bible and religion were regarded at best as innocuous nonsense and at worst as noxious nonsense.
Meanwhile, Europeans brought a non-European ideology into Europe, an ideology that, for more than a thousand years, sought to replace Christianity as the world’s dominant religion. The Europeans, believing in nothing distinctly Christian or Western and believing in the moral and intellectual nonsense known as “multiculturalism”—a doctrine that asserts that all cultures are morally equivalent—saw nothing problematic in bringing millions of Muslims into Europe. They had no idea that most of these people actually wanted to replace Christianity with their religion. They had no idea because, in their ignorance and arrogance, they assumed that because they were secular multiculturalists, everybody else was, too—or would be, once they lived in Europe.
They were wrong, of course. And as a result, the two dominant forces in Europe—secular leftism and Islamism—sought the end of Christianity and the West. (The left believes that protecting Western civilization is equivalent to protecting white supremacy.)
This is not producing a pretty picture. Generally speaking, Islam has not been nearly as kind, tolerant, open, medically or scientifically innovative or intellectually curious as Western civilization (and yes, Nazism and communism were born in the West, but they were anti-Western).
It’s going to be a very rough couple of generations if we don’t wake up our grandkids.
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Thank you for the link: I read the whole article. He is so right, at every level.
I just learned in my speech class yesterday that as a public speaker I should avoid “ethnocentrism,” or acting like one culture is better than any other. After all, who are we to judge?
Here’s one metaphorical grandkid who’s awake. I swear, this generation’s proclivity towards sleeping through their ideological alarm will be the death of this civilization…. I’ve got a few generations ahead of me yet.
I haven’t finished working on it, but I’m going to drop a post in the near future that will make me a target of all these people, titled “Don’t Buy The Lie: All Cultures Are NOT Equal”.
I am ashamed of my fellow man on this subject. Meanwhile, Islam — sensing our weakness — is celebrating in the streets and sharpening their knives.
We are so damn stupid.