Nations and civilizations as do individuals, seem to move in cycles -sleep, awakening, activity, weariness, sleep. Europe has seemed especially fatigued over the last few centuries, several times critically oversleeping it’s urgently sounding alarm clock, until it responds almost too late. Whether it is rolling drousily out of bed from its moribund stupor this time in time enough to stop the double threat of Islamism without and nihilistic leftism from within, only the next decade will tell. But it seems to me, that, if it manages to hold off the horde this time, Europe needs not only to look at how statism,totalitarianism, and fascism is once again hovering at its gates, but why. Somehow, like an old man who went wrong a long time ago, it must find its true heart once again, and where I would begin looking would be in its Christian legacy.
And I wish Europe the very best in this endeavor. My hearts and prayers are with you in th greatest battle it has ever fought – the battle for its soul.
