At least Catholicism in Ireland. Here's a remarkable Chicago Tribune article from 2006. Simply mesmerizing. I bet you never realized how fast the Roman Catholic Church tanked there in response to documented cases of the covering up of child sex abuses.
Here's the final nail in the coffin, if you were to ask me. How long can Ireland continue importing African priests to minister to empty pews? Secularism can occur with amazing swiftness. Wales, for example, went from being predominantly Christian with the majority attending weekly church to overwhelmingly secular in a remarkably short period of time. Something like twenty years. Just amazing. Without Christianity, though, the West stops being coherent, what it once was. Much of what's wrong with it results from this. Notice how ersatz religious crusades are made by the left. Global warming has been hysterically proclaimed with huge gaps in the purported scholarship, for example. The computer models can't even account for documented weather patterns of the past.
Too, if Ireland can't make it, what makes you think America will? I happen to work at an all-boys' boarding school for a Catholic religious order. It's been a wonderful experience for the past twelve years. But now it's up in the air because of the possibility of unspeakable abuse by the order's founder, now deceased, who was called "Our Father" in Spanish during his lifetime and considered a living saint. It turns out he may have preyed on young boys under his tutelage and then, at some point in his life, turned to young girls. It's all so vile that if contained in a novel I would reflexively accuse the author of an egregious bias. Simply put, one can't make this stuff up.
If one accepts the allegation that the West faces a civilizational conflict with Islam, then one needs to worry. How can secularism defeat a religion that apotheosizes death? Secularism is more of an interregnum. We suspect that it's the religious who are the ones who have a disproportionate number of the children. It may be too much d-mn work and expense without being of that frame of mind.
Here's the final nail in the coffin, if you were to ask me. How long can Ireland continue importing African priests to minister to empty pews? Secularism can occur with amazing swiftness. Wales, for example, went from being predominantly Christian with the majority attending weekly church to overwhelmingly secular in a remarkably short period of time. Something like twenty years. Just amazing. Without Christianity, though, the West stops being coherent, what it once was. Much of what's wrong with it results from this. Notice how ersatz religious crusades are made by the left. Global warming has been hysterically proclaimed with huge gaps in the purported scholarship, for example. The computer models can't even account for documented weather patterns of the past.
Too, if Ireland can't make it, what makes you think America will? I happen to work at an all-boys' boarding school for a Catholic religious order. It's been a wonderful experience for the past twelve years. But now it's up in the air because of the possibility of unspeakable abuse by the order's founder, now deceased, who was called "Our Father" in Spanish during his lifetime and considered a living saint. It turns out he may have preyed on young boys under his tutelage and then, at some point in his life, turned to young girls. It's all so vile that if contained in a novel I would reflexively accuse the author of an egregious bias. Simply put, one can't make this stuff up.
If one accepts the allegation that the West faces a civilizational conflict with Islam, then one needs to worry. How can secularism defeat a religion that apotheosizes death? Secularism is more of an interregnum. We suspect that it's the religious who are the ones who have a disproportionate number of the children. It may be too much d-mn work and expense without being of that frame of mind.
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