How has Europe given up the ghost? Birthrates have dropped below replacement levels. An Anglican clergyman proposed that Muslim immigrants be allowed to live under Islamic law, even when it opposed British custom. Scotland freed a mass-murderer in the name of mercy (mercy for the murderer, but not for his 200 plus victims). It seems any act that benefits European self-preservation is verboten among the elites.
Immigrants of color report that, compared to the United States, they have far fewer opportunities to assimilate when living in Europe. Western Europeans, in particular, once had a superior attitude toward the United States (and apartheid South Africa) because of their poor treatment of black and indigenous citizens. Nowadays, even European-born people of color complain of being denied good jobs.
So if Europe is not going to produce its own children, and will not assimilate the children of immigrants, what future does it expect to have?
The Vatican points to a decline in religious faith as one of the culprits of this maliase. The Vatican has a point. If it wasn't for the Pope, there wouldn't be a Europe at all. It was a pope who paid off Atilla the Hun and prevented the sacking of Rome. It was the Church that converted Ireland, and later the Irish who the converted the Scandinavians who were beyond the reach of pagan Roman military power. LIkewise the Byzantine empire and its missionaries spread Christianity to Russia and Eastern Europe. The Roman Catholic church and the Byzantine Orthodox Church each gave an alphabet to their respective halves of Europe. And Christopher Hitchens writes in one of those same alphabets, and still writes how religion has "ruined everything." He writes like an adolescent who doesn't want to give any credit to his elders.
There's no denying it, the more religious United States is more of a creative force than Europe. The European Union was created to mimic the union of the fifty states. American culture still values family, God, spirituality and children, and therefore, we're not just allowing our culture to whither and die. We actually offer membership to newcomers.
A German told me that he was surprised at how Americans resisted government intrusions into their private lives. Why, in Germany, when you moved into a new house, you were required to register yourself and household at the local police station. Just so the cops know who's there in advance. This seemed perfectly sensible to him. It seemed creepy to me, pardon my American instincts.
The Pope is already looking to Anglican churchpeople in African to find religously-minded allies. Africans, it seems, have latched onto this thing called Christianity which unified and civilized Europe, but which the Europeans have discarded like yesterday's newspaper.
