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by Giulio Meotti • October 26,
2018 at 5:00 am
- In facing this
existential challenge, a downward spiral in which Europeans
seem to be slowly dying out by failing to reproduce, it seems
that Europe has also lost all confidence in its hard-won
Enlightenment values, such as personal freedoms, reason and science
replacing superstition, and the separation of church and
state. These are critical if Europe truly wishes to survive.
- In Western Germany,
42% of children under the age of six now come from a migrant
background, according to Germany's Federal Statistical Office,
as reported by Die Welt.
- "[I]f you look
through history, where the Church slept, got diverted away
from the Gospel, Islam took the advantage and came in. This is
what we are seeing in Europe, that the Church is sleeping, and
Islam is creeping in... Europe is being Islamized, and it will
affect Africa." — Catholic Bishop Andrew Nkea Fuanya of
Cameroon.
In facing
this existential challenge, a downward spiral in which Europeans seem
to be slowly dying out by failing to reproduce, it seems that
Europe has also lost all confidence in its hard-won Enlightenment
values, such as personal freedoms, reason and science replacing
superstition, and the separation of church and state. These are
critical if Europe truly wishes to survive. (Image source: Pixabay)
"The possibility that Europe will become a
museum or a cultural amusement park for the nouveau riche of
globalization is not completely out of the question." This
thought of Europe as a vast cultural theme park was presented by
the late historian Walter Laqueur, who, for his far-sighted
prognosis about Europe's crisis, has been called "the
indispensable pessimist." Laqueur was one of the first to
understand that the current deadlock in which the continent finds
itself goes far beyond economics. The point is that the days of
European strength are over. Because of low birth rates, Europe is
dramatically shrinking. If current trends continue, Laqueur said, a
hundred years from now Europe's population "will be only a
fraction of what it is today, and in two hundred, some countries
may have disappeared."
Sadly, the "death of Europe" is drawing
nearer, is becoming more visible and is more frequently discussed
by popular writers.
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