The West, in short, was Christendom. But Christendom died. If you live in the West now, you are living among its ruins. Many of them are still beautiful — intact cathedrals, Bach concertos — but they are ruins nonetheless. And when an old culture built around a sacred order dies, there will be lasting upheaval at every level of society, from the level of politics to the level of the soul. The shape of everything — family, work, moral attitudes, the very existence of morals at all, notions of good and evil, sexual mores, perspectives on everything from money to rest to work to nature to the body to kin to duty — all of it will be up for grabs. Welcome to 2021.
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Yea my pastor used to tell us that the church is currently experiencing a soft persecution. Nothing like what’s going on in Africa or Asia but it will ratchet up. One of the first things is going to be punishment for not agreeing with lgbt dogma.
Churches already being burned down in Canada and France.
True. I had forgotten that. I go to a Lutheran church and it’s funny because we are growing the fastest in Asia and Africa but declining rapidly here and in Europe
We're declining badly in Australia too sadly.
Not to mention ANTIFA been threatening to firebomb Catholic churches in Portland.
What happened to Notre Dame still angers me. That should have been a flashpoint for unbridled retaliation.