Posted on 01/11/2005 3:07:47 PM PST by dennisw
Stop, but I thought WE were overpopulating the world! It's gonna fill up!
I had to check your link to make sure this was in the original article.
C'mon. There's got to be some good Christians from France or Germany. I may have to go back a few centuries, but Martin Luther comes to mind.
Europe is literally dying off, and the population rendered sterile by socialist ideology. The profound psychological illness of liberalism will kill more people ultimately than the Black Plague. The empty streets of Western Europe are being repopulated by North African muslims.
"Have the Europeans taken to heart existentialism's complaint that man is alone in a chaotic universe in which life has no ultimate meaning, and that man responds to the anxiety about death by embracing death?"
Soren Kirkagaard strikes again...
Oh, the fear and trembling! The sickness unto death!
Personally, I think there's a difference between self-preservation and self-absorbtion, but Euroweenies don't: their heads are so far up their butts, they have to cough to see sunlight.
I wonder which countries have legalized abortion in Europe?
In the next 50 years, Europe's population will relive - in slow motion - that plague demography, losing about a fifth of its population by 2050 and more as the decades roll on." Pretty static thinking. Would someone in 1950 have suspected that our increasing affluence would result in us having smaller families? That certainly wasn't the paradigm back in FDR's day...
This guy knows nothing about the 30 years war except modernist revisionism and very little about Christianity.
They have legalised everything in Europe.
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I can agree with the first points, but after that the article kind of goes haywire.
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It's actually rather interesting the author focuses so much on Jews. In the US, Jews --like Eurotrash -- are massively depopulating themselves through low birthrates and intermarriage. In Israel, however, Jews reproduce at a very high rate (albeit not as high as the Arabs).
I only wish there was a hell for Martin Luther to burn in.
No kidding. My husband and I have had more kids than we would if we were making less.
Doesn't make much sense, does it? As a generalization, at least.
This is a no brainer. Nihilism, secularization and a general replacement of the family by the nanny state has caused the drop off in birthrates in Europe. The corrective action is to replace nihilism with real belief systems, replace secularization with Judeo-Christian spirituality and the nanny state with the family. The solution is simple, but there is no will to do it. Therefore, the suicidal tendency continues. Of course, a miracle is still possible if not even probable.
The Muslim hordes will shatter these illusions of peace and tranquility in short order.
What really happened to Europe was that a nationalist Darwinism failed with the Nazis and all they were left with was new left self-hatred and malthusianist environmentalism which led them to believe that reproducing was a sin.
Thanks for posting this article. It is like watching a future episode of Eugene Weber's excellent 52 part series on the history of western civilization.
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