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Entry: A New Humanism in Europe Link: http://www.takimag.com/site/article/a_new_humanism_in_europe#6186 Post contents: First, there is no "Muslim threat" - not to Europe; not to anywhere. And even if there was, why should I be upset if a Muslim Europe overtakes an atheist Europe? The idea that a new Christian traditionalism may rise in Europe is one of those nice fantasies in which I'd like to believe. Like Santa Claus. Next, I wouldn't worry too much about democracy. Democracy is a self-correcting historical aberration. It is terribly unlikely that democracy will still be a major force in the west 200 years from now. Probably not even 50 years from now. There may or may not still be an outward pretense of it for some time, but that wil be the kabuki that is presented to mask the real power. America is essentially that way now. You didn't really think that voting Democratic in 2006 would end the war in Iraq or prevent a war with Iran, did you? Remember that the Roman Senate survived into the reign of Justin II, for all it was worth then. Lastly, secularism is in fact worse than the enforced atheism of places like China and Albania. It is worse because it presents the most dangerous of all possible ideas - that one can have one's cake and eat it too. It teaches that you can have God, but ignore Him when it's really important. "God is great - but just ignore Him when He goes on about abortion or pornography or family" is worse than abolishing God - it's trivializing Him. It never forces people into the Nietzsche position of agonizing over what man is, or morality is, or good and evil might be, without God. It never forces one to make hard choices. It's the easy choice of saying that God can exist but have no consequence in the decisions that one makes. It turns God into just some schmoe. At least Nietzsche knew that he was shaking the earth. Sent at: 2008 11 22