Europe, America, and Politics Without God
Europe, America, and Politics Without GodThe Brussels Journal interviewed George Weigel about his new book, in which he tackles what he calls “Europe’s problem.” According to Weigel Europe is dying in the most literal sense: it is depopulating itself. Why is a continent that is richer, healthier and more secure than ever before failing to create the human future in the most elemental sense of creating successive generations? According to Weigel, a Roman Catholic theologian, Europe’s problem has to do with the loss of the cult at the heart of the culture. I think it is unclear whether the Eurabia hypothesis is anything more than a hypothesis. What is killing Europe right now is not the Mosque, what is killing Europe and what I believe is most manifestly shown in its demographic rates, is a secularist cast of mind. It foreshortens people’s horizons of expectations of themselves and of the future so drastically that they do not even create the future in the most elementary sense. You cannot blame that on Islam. I think you can blame that on the cast of mind that expressed itself in the Habermas-Derrida manifesto that the EU must be a political community neutral among worldviews. The Eurabia question aside, no-one who can read a balance sheet can deny that Europe, Western Europe, is heading for a severe fiscal crisis. There is a real possibility that this fiscal crisis will lead to a profound social crisis. This is not good news. It is certainly not good news for Europe but it is absolutely not good news either for the United States.
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«It was because of Christianity, and Judaism, that the West realized that we humans can investigate the laws of the universe. We accept that there are truths, and that we can find truth.»
So, there was not any scientific activity in Europe before Christianity?
So, Aristotle was a Christian? What about Plato? Archimedes? Heraclitus? Thales?
Which is the root of the highest cultural level? Greece. Pagan Greece.
Europe lost a lot of it's brightness in the medium ages, i.e., during the Christian spiritual rule, and started to return to it's real intellectual and cultural roots with the Renaissance.
Thus, Europe is what it is, not thanks to Christianity, but INSPITE of Christianity.
Yes, Europe need religion - Europe need to have a superior type of conscience, a spiritual dimension. But the real European spiritual dimension, lies in it's ancestral religions - in the worship of Jupiter, Zeus, Odin, Perun, Perkunas.
Minerva, Hermes and Lug, light our path...
«It was because of Christianity, and Judaism, that the West realized that we humans can investigate the laws of the universe. We accept that there are truths, and that we can find truth.»
So, there was not any scientific activity in Europe before Christianity?
So, Aristotle was a Christian? What about Plato? Archimedes? Heraclitus? Thales?
Which is the root of the highest cultural level? Greece. Pagan Greece.
Europe lost a lot of it's brightness in the medium ages, i.e., during the height of the Christian spiritual rule, and started to return to it's real intellectual and cultural roots with the Renaissance.
It was the Church that forbade Galileo to say that the world was a sphere circulating around the Sun, not Aristotle - and, in the Pagan ancient European societies, nobody was ever punished for stating scientific theories about nature.
Thus, Europe is what it is, not thanks to Christianity, but inspite of Christianity.
Yes, Europe need religion - Europe need to have a superior type of conscience, a spiritual dimension. But the real European spiritual dimension, lies in it's ancestral religions - in the worship of Jupiter, Zeus, Odin, Perun, Perkunas.
These Gods, and their sacred Retinues, did never ordered our ancestors to give the other cheek, or to love everybody equally (with no distinction of blood and family ties), which is the Christian root of today’s European political correctness.
Let Minerva, Hermes and Lug, light our path...
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