Posted on 08/03/2017 6:14:30 PM PDT by marshmallow
The recently opened House of European History in Brussels offers an account of Europe described by one writer as “both typically modern and emphatically French and socialist.”
Looking at things from this side of the Atlantic, it is easy to think of Europe as a single, united entity. Seen up close it’s not so clear. National identity keeps getting in the way.
French, German, Italian, Polish, and so on—those ancient identities still matter to many people. As arguably they should.
National identity bestows a sense of rootedness and continuity that the new European institutions apparently haven’t been able to supply up to now. A case in point: last year’s Brexit vote in Great Britain, shocking to the pundits, which took the country out of the European Union (or, more precisely, set that process in motion). Being English, it seems, still counts for more with the English than being European does.
Religious identity is also part of the equation—today, a disputed one. This relationship once seemed overwhelmingly clear to someone like the Catholic apologist Hilaire Belloc, who famously wrote: “Europe will return to the Faith, or she will perish. The Faith is Europe, and Europe is the Faith.”
Today’s secularized Europeans obviously aren’t buying that. Yet if they’re honest, many would agree that it’s a species of historical blindness to ignore the role played by Christianity in shaping Europe—both the Europe of the nations and Europe as a whole—not only in the past but also now.
Yet ignore it some do. An institution that opened its doors in Brussels last spring stands as a kind of monument to that.
It’s called the House of European History. Situated in a former dental museum close to the European parliament (of which it’s a project) and other European institutions, the House of European History offers......
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Where we desperately need secularism is in the Middle East. A secular Saudi Arabia where Mecca is turned into a tourist attraction would solve 80% of international conflicts and 99% of terrorism.
Really don’t mind if you sit this one out
My word’s but a whisper your deafness a SHOUT
I may make you feel but I can’t make you think
Your sperm’s in the gutter your love’s in the sink
So you ride yourselves over the fields
And you make all your animal deals
And your wise men don’t know how it feels
To be thick as a brick
And the sand-castle virtues are all swept away
In the tidal destruction the moral melee
The elastic retreat rings the close of play
As the last wave uncovers the newfangled way
But your new shoes are worn at the heels
And your suntan does rapidly peel
And your wise men don’t know how it feels
To be thick as a brick
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9bk2MrMGaA
I met my first socialist/communist at the University of Chicago. Self-righteous, arrogant, and woefully uninformed/misinformed - but too self-convinced to know it. Academic institutions are unfortunately full of these people, and they are convinced that anyone who doesn’t share their views is not as smart and/or educated and informed as they are. I personally feel that there is little difference in the education one gets at the University of Chicago or the University of Illinois, but there is a sense of ‘better than’ that is encouraged by the environments at ‘name’ universities, and this leads to delusional elitism - and ironically - to an anti-intellectual rejection of all ideologies, thoughts, and political views that are not part of the academic mainstream.
Self-rigtheousness is just a phony form of respectability.
Pretty soon God is going to erase Christians from the world. . .as in Rapture.
“Secularist erase Christianity...”
Not to worry. I made a copy.
So Europe was born in 1789 and its pinnacle is the EU? That is some hubris. Even if they hadn’t left out the contribution of Christianity, they left out a lot of other important formative factors that happened before 1789, and a lot of things that are infinitely better tHan the EU.
Oh — and the Devil take them.
This verse come to mind immediately.
Romans 1:28 KJV
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient;
Reaching your head
With the cold, sudden fury
Of a divine messenger.
Let me tell you about heartache
And the loss of god.
Wondering, wondering
In hopeless night.
Out here in the perimeter
There are no stars,
Out here
we is stoned
Immaculate.
I think “secularism” only has meaning in the context of Christianity, or perhaps we might say “Christendom”.
So I think the secularists have to look around and view the scenery.
Wonder what Jim Morrison’s world view would be right now, if he’d survived. A troubled soul.
>So Europe was born in 1789<
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In the shadow of the guillotine during the Reign of Terror.
The new Jacobins are the muzzies.
Very appropriate.
Good grief. What history is left?
Good grief. What history is left?
And the secular liberals and atheists will get their wish, a world without God.
I guess they never learned from what happened in France when they rejected God and He let them have their own way.
They need to be careful what they wish for. It'll be beyond blood in the streets.
Rather, God is caling us to good news of the Gospel.
Correction: God is calling us to spread the good news of the Gospel.
Please see post number 19. Thank-you.
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