Posted on 04/16/2010 1:21:00 PM PDT by 198ml
It’s very difficult for a European to get his mental arms around the religiousity of Americans...as outside of places like Poland....it is just not there in Europe.
Most Europeans are taught—like the elites in America are too—either implicitly, or, more commonly today, explicitly, that heart-felt religion (read: Christianity) is the domain of the “poor, uneducated and easily led” (as the Washington Post put it back in ‘93). To be intelligent, well educated and informed—and a practicing Christian—is a novelty to Europeans....and elites like Obama, et al.
This despite the enormous intellectual heritage of theisms generally and Christianity in particular. All the great European universities were established by the Church...and similarly, the American “Ivy League,” as well as the vast majority of other universities and colleges in the USA were established by Christians—usually originally for the training of clergy. Somehow though this history—is easily forgotten—as the Academy is the heart of secular, atheistic and collectivist/socialist thinking today.
The good news is the Western World is not killing each other over religion—as we did 400+ years ago—the bad news is that fewer and fewer of us have a faith we are willing to die for, gentle Roman Catholic friend.
This is a poor discussion of an interesting premise.
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