Europe's Future

Fire of Liberty

George Will has a interesting article in The Washington Post over the future of Europe. He notes that if Europe continues its trend of declining birth rates and a further rejection of religion for secular humanism, it will only find itself sinking into a crumbling mess with no relief in sight. Here's some of Will's wonderful piece:

Europe itself is withering. The day of John Paul II's funeral, the European Union's statistics agency reported that the decline of birthrates means that within five years deaths will exceed births in the EU. By 2013, Italy's population will begin to decline; the next year, Germany's will begin to decline. After 2010, Europe's population growth will be entirely from immigration. By 2025, not even immigration will prevent declining fertility from accelerating what one historian calls the largest ``sustained reduction in European population since the Black Death of the 14th century.''

In his new book The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America, and Politics Without God, George Weigel, biographer of John Paul II, argues that Europe's ``demographic suicide'' will cause its welfare states to buckle and is creating a ``vacuum into which Islamic immigrants are flowing.'' Since 1970, the 20 million legal Islamic immigrants equal the combined populations of Ireland, Denmark and Belgium.

I assure you that the much vaunted EU will fall on its face if it doesn't grasp the decline of its population and religious devotion throughout the member states of Europe. When you look the other way and ignore such failings in your own society, you could be headed to the horrors of the "Reign of Terror" that emerged during The French Revolution. During this time, traditions were done away with or diminished and religion was outlawed by the vile Robespierre and his Committe of Public Safety which eventually resulted in blood running in the streets of France. Though I doubt that Europe will ever dissolve into such madness of the guillotine, they will experience a significant decline in their culture unless they embrace their traditional culture. Once you lose your culture, you lose your whole identity on this World. The same thing also awaits this nation if it slides more and more towards secular humanism. Hopefully we have oracles like Will and Weigel who have alerted us to this rising storm.