As Islam continues to gain numbers and power in Western Europe, certain questions take on greater importance. If you’re female or Jewish or gay, for example, and the only local doctor without a full patient list is a Muslim (and given how some nationalized medical systems work, this kind of situation arises not infrequently), do you choose to assume that he doesn’t take his religion’s teachings seriously, or do you move?
A rise in Muslim numbers means a rise in Muslim influence on many fronts. In Norway, there are about 1500 Jews and about 175,000 Muslims. When Jewish parents complain about their kids being beaten by their Muslim classmates – a charge that, if acted upon, can lead to major unrest – how do you expect teachers, principals, cops, and politicians to respond?
Or consider the Christian People’s Party (KrF), the traditional political home of Norway’s aging religious right. As that cohort dies out, KrF risks extinction. How to recoup? Some of its leaders, possessed of a fanciful misconception that all “people of faith” share essentially the same values, have tried reaching out to Muslims. But so far this hasn’t worked too well, largely because of KrF’s ardent support for Israel. Which raises the question: as the party’s crisis intensifies even further, will KrF feel compelled to distance itself from Israel?
Then there’s this news item. On January 30, Norway’s newspaper of record, Aftenposten, reported that the Oslo police department had established a special patrol unit for the Muslim-heavy neighborhood of Tøyen. Police don’t routinely patrol on foot in Oslo, but the members of this four-person group will do so, the purported goal being to improve community relations – to have friendly chats with the locals, to get to know them better, to develop trust.
It’s a puzzling piece of news. As longtime observers of Muslim neighborhoods in Western Europe are well aware, once an urban area has become sufficiently Islamized, police cars (and fire engines) that try to enter it risk being attacked violently by the inhabitants. In districts that haven’t yet reached that magical saturation point, you can still enter without triggering displays of rage, but the tension and sense of threat will be palpable. Do Oslo authorities expect that Tøyen, which is definitely at that tense stage, will now transform suddenly into Mayberry, with its own genial Sheriff Andy and his three deputies hanging out on street corners and shooting the breeze with imams, halal butchers, and women in niqab?
One not insignificant detail ignored in the Aftenposten article is that neighborhoods like Tøyen have already had their own patrols for many years – patrols, that is, by the morality police, whose job is to seek out violations of sharia. The whole premise underlying the existence of the morality police is that these neighborhoods are, practically speaking, under the jurisdiction not of the Norwegian government but of local imams and patriarchs. Does Oslo’s tiny new constabulary quartet – the four horsemen of the apocalypse, as it were – plan to challenge that control? Or does it expect to forge some kind of working relationship with its Islamic counterpart? How will the morality police react when they see that one member of the new patrol is female? (Will she wear niqab?)
Like most other Western government programs conceived in response to the challenge of Islam, needless to say, this Tøyen initiative is absurd – based on the delusion (and how stunning that it still persists after all these years!) that if many Muslims feel little or no connection to mainstream society, it’s because authorities have failed to reach out to them sufficiently. It’s as if those authorities are unaware that one of the key commandments of the Koran is don’t befriend the infidel.
Speaking of the Koran, Aftenposten’s story about the new Tøyen patrol came three days before it was reported that Oslo police had prohibited an anti-Islam group, SIAN (Stop the Islamization of Norway), from carrying out a planned Koran-burning outside the Turkish embassy, in protest against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s opposition to Sweden and Finnish membership in NATO. (As it happens, a similar protest in Stockholm was allowed to go forward.) Why did the Oslo police ban the demo? Because, they explained, they feared it would provoke an act of terrorism and/or lead to domestic disorder – an outright admission that they’ve granted Al-Qaeda and ISIS a veto on free speech in Norway and that they’ve lost the numerical battle against the enemy within.
And most Norwegians, it turns out, are on the side of the cops. Survey results released on Tuesday show that only 33% of them think Koran-burning should be permitted. When only a third of a country’s population support the small minority who are actively standing up for everyone’s freedom, how long can that freedom endure?
Numbers! A surprisingly frank article appeared in last Sunday’s Aftenposten. The headline was “Not entirely colorblind: Have Oslo’s youth become a big colorful community after 50 years of immigration? There’s not much sign of it.” I expected it to be yet another piece – they’ve been writing them for decades – smearing Norwegians as racists. But no, in the eastern half of Oslo things have now moved beyond that. At Oslo’s largest school, Kuben Upper Secondary School, reporter Hilde Lundgaard visited a typical classroom, in which only two – yes, two – of the students were ethnic Norwegians. A few inquiries established that most of the non-Norwegian kids don’t have any ethnic Norwegian friends at all – and prefer it that way.
In fact, they don’t even see themselves as Norwegian. Even those who were born in Norway, Lundgaard found, refer to themselves as “foreigners.” A girl named Fatima, whose parents are Pakistani, admitted that she feels safest around “people with my cultural background.” One teacher told Lundgaard that “the pupils are unbelievably preoccupied with color and ethnicity.” Although the teacher apparently didn’t feel comfortable adding the word “religion,” Lundgaard cited a researcher, Monica Rosten, who’s dared to tiptoe closer to the truth, writing that “[students] with religious identity find one another.” Religious, of course, being code for Muslim.
Lundgaard’s article reads like a portrait of Norway’s future: a majority Muslim country in which the views of ethnic Norwegians about immigration and integration – or, for that matter, about anything whatsoever – have become irrelevant, simply because Muslims now outnumber them.
To be sure, not all of the schools in Oslo are majority Muslim. Here’s a February 6 story about a primary school in central Oslo where most of the pupils are apparently ethnic Norwegian. At present, a male teacher’s assistant (unnamed) from that school (also unnamed) is on trial for molesting several of the little girls under his care. He’s not ethnic Norwegian – at his trial, he’s using an Arabic translator. One mother testified that she complained about him repeatedly to the school’s principal, but the latter “didn’t care,” explaining that the assistant was from “another culture.”
Indeed, he is – a culture in which young men are taught that they’re free to abuse the children of infidels. If convicted, he’ll spend no more than 60 days behind bars. (By comparison, I just now watched an episode of a documentary series about Norwegian customs officers in which they arrested a Polish trucker for smuggling vodka. Sentence: six years.)
When more and more people who hold responsible positions in a civilized society place deference to a barbaric foreign culture above the well-being of their society’s own children, how long is that civilization for this world?
If civilization is slipping away in Norway, it’s on even slippier ground in Sweden. Take the municipality of Botkyrka. Incorporating part of southern Stockholm, it’s increasingly populated by Muslims and plagued by crime – and was recently the setting of an illuminating, and unsettling, political predicament.
Botkyrka, by the way, made the news back in September 2018 when Ali Khalil, head of the local Green Party, promised leaders of an opposing party, the Moderates (M), to turn out 3,000 votes for them in that year’s elections in exchange for a plot of land on which the congregation of the Alby Mosque in Botkyrka could build itself a new house of worship. When this proposal was made public, Khalil had to step down from his political office. The story cycled out quickly enough, but its lesson was clear: Muslims in many parts of Western Europe are reaching a point at which they can manipulate politics through sheer numbers.
Now Botkyrka has made the political news again – with another development that teaches the same lesson. It concerns the leader of Botkyrka’s municipal council, a Social Democrat politician named Ebba Östlin, who’s made a name for herself as a bold crime-fighter – an unusual distinction in a country where all too many police departments prefer not to send officers into dangerous neighborhoods, where all too many judges are loath to mete out tough sentences to Muslim miscreants and where all too many politicians are scared even to speak about Islamic crime.
One of Östlin’s most controversial actions while in office was the closure of several youth centers – basically, after-school recreational clubs – that turned out to have employed convicted felons, and to have been riddled with violence and narcotics. The centers, which had been run by a local community college, were later reopened under the direct (and stricter) control of the municipality.
On January 28, the Social Democrats of Botkyrka were holding a meeting when a group of about 50 people showed up and identified themselves as newly enrolled party members. With these new members in attendance, a vote was held in which Östlin was removed from her post as local party leader – which meant that she was automatically out as head of the municipal council. The votes cast by the new members, all of whom supported Östlin’s ouster, were decisive in her removal.
Who were these new members? Many of them, according to Aftonbladet columnist Oisín Cantwell, “barely even knew Swedish” and “didn’t seem to understand what they were doing there.” Also, several were recognizable as having “close connections to gang crime” – specifically, to the notorious Vårby crime network, whose shady leader, Chihab Lamouri, is originally from “some country in the Middle East.” At least one of them was a notorious gang figure who’d “recently been released from prison.”
What was going on here? “There are many indications,” wrote Cantwell, in what reads like a major understatement, “that organized crime may have participated in the ouster of the leading politician in the municipality.” He asked: “What happens to Botkyrka if a social democrat who owes a debt of gratitude to the Vårby network takes over?” In the years to come, this sort of question will be raised increasingly.
There’s more to the Botkyrka story. On Thursday, it was reported that people who’d voted for Östlin at that meeting later received threatening text messages. Several of them described the incident as a “coup.” But what to do? Tobias Baudin, the national secretary of the Social Democrats, was quick – in good Swedish fashion – to throw in the towel, declaring the vote in Botkyrka legitimate; another of the party’s national leaders promised on the TV news that the party would stand with Östlin, although he hardly seemed worked up about the situation. But what could the party do?
It was Hans Rustad, editor of the alternative Norwegian news website document.no, who made the key point in a February 4 piece. Immigrants, he observed, “constitute such a large proportion” of Sweden’s current population “that they can take over democratic processes if they wish.” And the same process is underway all over Western Europe, with the potential consequences for these societies extending far beyond electoral politics.
In any event, anyone with a grain of sense can see where all this is leading.
That this is happening across Europe is an understatement Bruce. You describe one school in Norway that has only two Norwegian kids. There are dozens of schools in uk cities that have zero traditional British children.
“ Christian People’s Party (KrF),” will be manipulated into a far right extreme party and eventually banned.
The one teacher who is facing a few days in jail for sexual abuse is another example of how far behind the UK Norway is, the police here are covering up muslim rape crimes and have been for ten years to my knowledge. So does the BBC which manipulated the news and called it grooming.
But self-sacrificial altruism for others, for sinners, Jesus taught us, is the highest, noblest, virtue we fallen creatures born of Original Sin can practice on earth. Jesus died for all of us sinners, including Muslims, because we are all created by Yahweh in his image. We are all brothers and sisters in God-Jesus.
It doesn’t matter if the Muslims don’t realize this, we must as devout Christians sacrifice our selves to the Muslims. It doesn’t matter if we die through our altruistic sacrifice, this earth is not our true home, this life is simply a brief pilgrimage of sacrifice to regain our true home, an eternal utopia in Heaven after we die. But we will only be rewarded with eternal life in Heaven if we sacrifice our selves for others as God-Jesus sacrificed himself for us.
Selfishness, Jesus taught us, is evil, immoral, or at the very least inferior to self-sacrifice and altruism. We must practice self-sacrifice and self-sacrificial altruism for God-Jesus, that is our Christian duty.
Since you are not into self sacrifice and altruism I certainly expect to see you on the front lines when the Muslims come to your town en mass. Except you have one problem:
*I don’t recognize any such absurdity as service to my country. I recognize a moral responsibility to my freedom and liberty and the freedom and liberty of those I love.* — THX
You hypocrite
When there are no more Christians, who will proclaim the Good News of what Jesus did on the Cross? How can someone be saved if they don’t know about the savior?
When there are no more Christians then we know the rapture has happen and all hell will break loose under the antichrist until Jesus returns and sets up His kingdom. You need to realize that you are a imperfect person and confess your shortcomings to Jesus and ask for hIs forgiveness before it is too late.
If you really want to self sacrifice step in front of a bus now. The rest of us are not of the belief that we are expected to bow before evil.
Thank your self for having enough healthy SELF-ESTEEM and healthy PRIDE to be convinced you deserve to preserve your self and live and not sacrifice your self to evil!
Very well put! Christians in Muslim areas of Africa are being terrorized, enslaved & exterminated by the Muslim population activists there. Both Islam & Christianity are death cults. Where the Muslims are the designated & obligated killers & all others are the killed.
The world will never know true peace until Islam and all those who practice that vulgar, pedophilic religion are exterminated from the planet Earth forever.
UK police have been covering up Muslim rape crimes for 20 years or more. Read the book, EASY MEAT.
The rape capitol of Europe is Malmo Sweden.
“Several of them described the incident as a “coup.” But what to do?”
The Islamic takeover of Europe sort of reminds me of a metaphor I used for the 2020 American presidential election. It was like a train wreck spotted 200 miles from the point of impact. You knew the catastrophe was imminent, but there wasn’t anything that you or anyone else could do to stop it. You had to get ready for the inevitable impact.
Just let them have the country and do it peacefully. Europe can accommodate the ‘nors’ and will benefit by having them. It’s a win win. It worked in histories past. Beats war.
That’s my preferred option man, every time I don’t want to get involved in anything too dangerous, I just appease, works every time, do you know my son?
Mr. President.
I have another thick envelope from Hunter.
He was passed out again, so I just picked it up with some classified documents that you wanted me to shred.
I wonder if Norwegians were conditioned by their globalist leaders
and by their media to kowtow to Islam – long before the Muslim
population reached the burgeoning numbers it has now. Like lambs
to the slaughter.
Were they subjected to the tactics that U.S. leaders impose on
Americans? Yell “Islamophobia” for any critique of Islam whatsoever –
insist Islam is a religion of peace after every jihad attack, big or small –
make sure there’s a total media blackout of Muslim atrocities throughout
the world, including such things as the Islamic genocide of Christians
in Nigeria, for starters.
When destroying Western civilization is the goal in order to ready the
world for digital tyranny – using backward and barbaric totalitarian
Islam as a battering ram to do it is ever so helpful.
“Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.” – Objectivist philosopher Leonard Peikoff
Western Civilization has two major and opposing, antagonistic, influences; Oriental, Middle-Eastern, Judeo-Christian mysticism, and Greco-Pagan Aristotelian rationality. Judeo-Christianity destroyed and suppressed the West’s Greco-Pagan Aristotelian heritage for 1,000 years. From approximately the year 500 to the year 1,500 the West’s Greco-Aristotelian heritage was destroyed by Christianity leading to the one-thousand years of the Christian Dark Ages.
Judaism prepared the way for Christianity, and both prepared the way for Islam, Marxism, and modern totalitarianism.
I see class is in session again. The School of Objectivist Lies, run by one THX, is not particularly alive and well. And probably not read at all in Sweden or Norway.
It seems there are only two lesson plans….religious bigotry and the glorification of rational selfishness of THX.
I brought my pencil. Give me something to write on.
Class dismissed!
Part 1
I’ve already torn apart and debunked this particular screed of Peikoff’s more times than I care to discuss, I don’t need to do it again.
“Western Civilization has two major and opposing, antagonistic, influences; Oriental, Middle-Eastern, Judeo-Christian mysticism, and Greco-Pagan Aristotelian rationality. ”
Ah yes, because nothing screams “rationality” like Platonic Forms, being famously superstitious, and engaging in brutal, draconian crackdowns on religious dissent. All one needs to do to crush the idea of “Greco-Paragan Aristotelian rationality” is to study its many follies, and the lives of some of its supposed exemplars like Alexander III The Great, a man who was given some of the greatest rational training by the greatest sophists of them all.
And indeed, the fact that we refer to “Sophists” as an inherent form of insult goes back to the vindictive, irrational, and deeply human backbiting of many of the “Aristotelian Rationalists” you claim.
Believe me Tortoise Herder, you need to debunk the Peikoff clown as often as the THX fraud posts it.
Very well, I will.
Peikoff the Sophist claims:
““Christianity prepared the ground. It paved the way for modern totalitarianism by entrenching three fundamentals in the Western mind: in metaphysics, the worship of the supernatural; ”
This is stupid on a grand scale if you’ve ever studied Greco-Roman mythology or religious (let alone further afield in the Celtic and Germanic parts of Europe). Greeks and Romans were conducting religious sacrifices and were viewed as archetypically superstitious by their peers (especially the Romans) for centuries before a certain Nazarene Carpenter came along. Christianity didn’t “entrench” “the worship of the supernatural” in “the Western mind.”
“in epistemology, the reliance on faith; as a consequence, ”
Tell me you’ve never read the Trojan Cycle without telling me you’ve never read the Trojan Cycle. Aka a lengthy epic centering around a war in which the chief strategy involves following different divine prophecies and trying to prevent any that allow Troy to survive victorious to come to pass, without screwing things up too badly or angering the pro-Trojan Gods too much.
“Think not to match yourself against gods, for men that walk the earth cannot hold their own with the immortals.”
The Archaic Greek source for that line was written hundreds of years before Jesus Christ, and long before it was written it was sung by bards.
Part 2
“in ethics, the reverence for self-sacrifice.” ”
This is true to a point, and many totalitarians (especially the relatively few that were devout Christians, like Pavelic) did make this comparison.
But reverence for self-sacrifice in the “Western Mind” well predates that. See: The Roman Devotio. Indeed, Christian self-sacrifice was (correctly) seen as dangerous because it underlined the right to rebel and reject the state. It didn’t INVENT this (Antigone was written hundreds of years before Christ) but it did supercharge it, precisely because it rejected reverence for the most established collectives – the nation, the ethnicity, the clan, the regime churches – in favor of a cross national, cross ethnic community of individual believers. That doesn’t mean that Christianity has never been collectivist (Hardly so) but even where it was, it was collectivist on a very different level than the great totalitarian ideologies, precisely because it did not elevate worldly power above all else. There was always a baked in reason to scrutinize and critique The State and its Dear Leader.(s).
Which is also why it isn’t a coincidence that the iconic totalitarian ideologues either downplayed its role in worldly affairs (Dante, Pavelic) or outright condemned it (Marx, Engels, Mussolini, Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, D’Annunzio, D’Ambris, Mao, the Kims….).
Part 2
“Judeo-Christianity destroyed and suppressed the West’s Greco-Pagan Aristotelian heritage for 1,000 years.”
Bull. Shit.
How do I know this is bullshit? Let me count the ways.
Firstly: The continuing influence of Socrates, Aristotle, Plato, and the other Greek Pagan
philosophers on Christiandom.long before Thomas Aquinas. Indeed, one of the best ways of showing that Judeo-Christianity didn’t destroy and suppress Aristotelian Rationalism is to see how many times they dogmatically followed it, including many of its now-obviously-false claims.
https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/thematic/aristotelianism-medieval/v-1
Secondly: Eastern Rome. Your theory holds that the “Christian Dark Ages” was due to losing touch with Aristotle. This falls apart when you realize not only how derivative works of Aristotle’s never entirely vanished in the West, but how knowledge of him remained alive and accessible in the Greek-speaking East, along with many of the bureaucratic and cultural traditions of the Dominate era Roman Empire. Which you’d EXPECT would lead to a vibrant, highly rational and free society according to you…. Rather than to an increasingly stagnant and autocratic regime where Church and State were wedded at the hip.
And ironically all of this theory completely ignores the very important Celtic and especially Germanic influences on Western culture and civilization.
Part 3
“From approximately the year 500 to the year 1,500 the West’s Greco-Aristotelian heritage was destroyed by Christianity leading to the one-thousand years of the Christian Dark Ages.”
I suppose I should be grateful that you’ve finally had the courage to actually try and put an approximate date for your “Thousand year Christian Dark Ages” bullshit.
Shame that it merely underlines how idiotic and historically illiterate you are.
For the record you fucking superstitious idiot: The Carolingian Renaissance happened fro,m the 800s to the early 1000s. The “Main” Renaissance began sometime in the 1200s or at latest 1300s.
But none of that fits your cliche.
“Judaism prepared the way for Christianity, and both prepared the way for Islam, ”
True to some degree.
“Marxism, and modern totalitarianism.”
Yeah, this would be way more convincing if we didn’t see the emergence of totalitarian thought long before either, including with the Mongols and Dante Alighieri, and modern totalitarian thought emerging from among fanatically anti-Judeo-Christian thinkers like Ludendorff and Mussolini.
The iie of “cultural relativism” was taught for decades in Departments of Anthropology and Sociology in the US. and other western countries
Turn off the power and let them freeze to death?
Tell them Norway has run out of money and they can no longer get government benefits.
“Some of its leaders, possessed of a fanciful misconception that all “people of faith” share essentially the same values, have tried reaching out to Muslims.”
Judaism, Christianity, and Islam do share the same philosophical essentials. Above all they share the same fundamental moral code of self-sacrifice and altruism. According to all three religions the individual was created by an Almighty God and the individual is the property of that God. Therefore the individual must worship, obey, and sacrifice himself unto that God. The individual who refuses to do so is a heretic and deserves condemnation and punishment if he does not recant and submit to God and his divine law.
The crucial difference between today’s modern, diluted and leashed, Judaism and Christianity, and Islam, is that Judaism and Christianity were put through the ringer, they got their asses kicked, by the Aristotelian Renaissance and the Aristotelian Age of Reason, and Age of Enlightenment. Islam has never been put through that fire, the fire of Aristotelian reason. Islam is still taken completely seriously by Muslims. Islam remains to this day Medieval Islam.
If you want to experience Medieval Judaism or Medieval Christianity you’ll have to join the Amish or the Hasidim.
Same old crap except you wrote it on a day that ends in ‘y’.
Bitter table for one. If you have to repeat every thing ad nauseum then the message isn’t getting through.
Mother Teresa’s Christianity was pure Medieval Christianity. If you look into the details of how she ran her hospices you will find that by modern and rational standards she was a monster of cruelty but in her medieval mind she was doing God’s noble work. Just like a Muslim Jihadist truly believes he is doing God’s noble work.
Fine. Let the Muslims do their “noble work” somewhere else, IOW where they came from.
I agree but how are you going to convince the West to kick the Muslims out in the name of SELF-PRESERVATION when self-preservation is a policy derived from a moral code of rational egoism, i.e., rational selfishness.
And the West is dedicated to altruism and self-sacrifice?
How are you going to convince the West to kick the Muslims out in the name of SELF-PRESERVATION from your safe space Lotus Flower
It might be easier if you just wrote “I hate Christians and Jews” ad infinitum.
It’s obvious you throw a sop to the Muslims so you appear to be an equal opportunity hater.
Most Christians and Jews today are barely Christian or Jews. We can thank the rational influence Aristotle for that.
“Unlike many Americans today, who drive to church in their Cadillac or tape their favorite reverend on the VCR so as not to interrupt their tennis practice, the medievals took religion seriously. They proceeded to create a society that was anti-materialistic and anti-intellectual.” – Leonard Peikoff, “Religion versus America”
So no ideas, no observations of your own?
You “think” in terms of guotation of others?
Biden blames Trump. You blame Aristotle.
Then you’re through. Job done: blame attributed. Time to rest up for next assignment.
A true Philosopher King.
To Ugly Sid:
1+1=2 and E=MC2 — even if I didn’t originate those ideas, those ideas are eternally and universally true. I’m not your Philosopher King and I don’t seek to be anyone’s ruler, I’m the messenger. Don’t hate the messenger because you hate the message.
I don’t blame Aristotle for the West’s collapse, I blame unreason for the collapse. Most crucially the unreason of the religious, mystical, otherworldly, moral code of altruism and self-sacrifice.
I blame Immanuel Kant’s philosophy of unreason for the collapse of the West into unreason.
You see Sid the battle for life on earth, liberty on earth, and happiness on earth is the battle for reason. It’s an eternal battle. A republic of liberty if you can keep it means a people dedicated to reason if they choose to be rational. the irrational will get you death and destruction.
That’s your answer? The current “watered down” variety of Judaism and Christianity that you have posted ad infinitum? The world saved in the nick of time the great Aristotle revival. Really? If only life were that simple. Alas, it isn’t.
Christianity survived the Renaissance, through the Baroque and Romantic periods into the post war WWI Dadaism, the rise of the WWII toalitarians and finally the B.S. post modern leftists like you.
Hint: Objectivism is just another less than minor speed bump along the way.
Simple answers written by a faux philosophical simpleton. Must be great to be you. You don’t have to think up anything new. You only have to refer to your prewritten catechism notecards, your handy bible so to speak, for your premise and then rely on dead people to confirm that premise.
It is no wonder you can’t get a job. Your reality is you simply aren’t that bright. The other reality is almost no one gives a crap about Peekaboo, Rand and your childish ideology.
“Most Christians and Jews today are barely Christian or Jews.”
Translation: You don’t know much of either, especially in places like Africa and India.
“We can thank the rational influence Aristotle for that.”
Not really.
But since we’ve already established you are historically illiterate and will try to credit Aristotle for things like the invention of the Windmill, we can discount that.
““Unlike many Americans today, who drive to church in their Cadillac or tape their favorite reverend on the VCR so as not to interrupt their tennis practice, the medievals took religion seriously. They proceeded to create a society that was anti-materialistic and anti-intellectual.” – Leonard Peikoff, “Religion versus America””
Because what one sees when one researches things like the Carolingian Renaissance’s artwork is “anti-materialism” and “anti-intellectualism.”
Claims so completely vapid and empty that Peikoff is forced to try and graft his narrative onto the too-hard-to-deny evidence to the contrary by elevating Thomas Aquinas as the John the Baptist of Aristotle.
Which collapses for those of us who know the arcane art of *actually researching the Medieval world and checking a basic chronology.*
Don’t engage this THX menace it only encourages him
What MENACE? Words of reason are a menace to your magical-thinking-fantasy, religious, faith? Of course they are
You are the only one to call her mind Medieval. Maybe she was simply a good hearted person who strove to heal and help where she could, doing God’s noble work. Could you pick up a person in rags who had leprosy in order to comfort them?
I doubt it. In fact could you help anyone. I doubt that as well. Not unless there was something in it for you.
Who’s work are you doing besides touting a loser faux philosopher who cheated on her husband for years, until Nathaniel dumped her.
As always, the usual sop to the Muslims so the folks you won’t think you are bigot, except you are.
As always you are pathetic.
There’s nothing wrong with helping someone to RATIONALLY heal, recover, or peacefully die in a clean hospice environment with adequate and sufficient pain medication. but that’s not what Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu was doing at her hospices according to eyewitness volunteers working at her hospices.
Do your research into the actual details of Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu activities. You won’t and even if you do you’ll call her critics all liars.
How about just helping someone heal without your rational B.S. Oh that person as a gunshot wound or he has cancer, but he is not a rational person so……to bad. You are beyond sick. You are insanely inhuman.
You always look to bag on a Christian. It seems to bring you great joy. No, I am not going to do that research. So what if they are eyewitnesses. They may be disgruntled volunteers, people who couldn’t/wouldn’t do the job correctly, or they are simply just plain out and out liars.
Ever heard of today’s “disgruntled employee” who seeks only to sabotage the work of the boss? Liars are everywhere and miserable people are also everywhere (you?)
you are pathetic.
You’re right…the three abrahamic religions are destroying modern civilization. Islam is the last of them, don’t know if we’ll survive it.
I am encouraged by the resistance of the eastern European nations like Poland and Hungary, but the globalists are really trying to beat them down.
What is Globalism exactly? It’s just a new, general, euphemism for the idea of ALTRUISM-COLLECTIVISM. They keep inventing new terms for collectivist tyranny. Altruism-collectivism comes from religion, particularly the three monotheistic religions.
Underneath Globalism is Marxism and Fascism and underneath that is mysticism, religion, faith, and unreason. Marxism and Globalism come from religion. What does “CATHOLIC” mean after all? Catholic means “universal” — GLOBAL CHRISTIAN THEOCRACY.
Sweden has been overrun. No one stood up against the invasion. What is to stop America from having women in burkas on the sidewalks? Nothing.
The Swedes are mostly unarmed. But you can bet that every mosque is a weapons cache.
What will stop the American women in burkas is armed Americans.
My Norwegian grandmother and mother would be astonished.
They would be astonished that Muslims were invited to partake of and invade the Norwegian Christian-Welfare State-Collectivism and remain enemies of Norway and Christendom.
But, most unfortunately and tragically, they would not be astonished or offended by altruism-collectivism-welfare state Christianity. They would be offended by Norwegian Capitalism but not by Norwegian Christian Altruism-Collectivism.
Then the Liberal Democrats Pinheads wonder why we oppose Open Borders and want a Border Wall well liberal Democrat Pinheads here is the reason why
Psychopathic Islam needs to be crushed everywhere.
Solution: Compromise being impossible leaves one avenue: Expulsion.
We expel them, or them us. Binary. Either/Or.
Buck up. Do it. Or disappear.
I think the same can be said for woke western culture, which IMAO is a return to the savage.
I think the same can said for western woke culture which is a return to the savage.
That’s precisely the title of Ayn Rand’s masterful essay “The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”.
You can find her delivering her essay-speech on Youtube or the Ayn Rand Institute.
“The Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution”
Now that is what I call “appointment” viewing…………………………….Not!!!!
Why would Muslims from the Middle East immigrate to Scandinavia where the culture, weather, fashion and customs are a .180 from where they came? The desert to 4 months of winter that is exceptionally cold.
It’s called handouts, welfare, etc. These Middle Easterners did not gravitate to Scandinavia to become productive citizens and assimilate into their new surroundings. They came to milk the welfare given to them, as the impotent and ignorant leaders opened their arms and waved them into their country. Once established these Middle Eastern Muslims take over.
Germany had a huge influx of Turkish Muslims and they raped the welfare system there, and had no intention to assimilate.
This is what happens when liberals run things. This is called diversity. isn’t it wonderful?
This is what happens when ALTRUISTS run things, when altruism is the status quo, predominant, moral code of a society. Altruism in practice means to each according to his need, from each according to his ability — NEED MAKES RIGHT.
Altruism is the moral basis for collectivism, it’s moral justification Actually it’s not in fact a justification, but a rationalization. A rationalization for the sacrifice and enslavement of the free individual.
“Collectivism does not preach sacrifice as a temporary means to some desirable end. Sacrifice is its end—sacrifice as a way of life. It is man’s independence, success, prosperity, and happiness that collectivists wish to destroy.
Observe the snarling, hysterical hatred with which they greet any suggestion that sacrifice is not necessary, that a non-sacrificial society is possible to men, that it is the only society able to achieve man’s well-being.” – Ayn Rand
Many years ago I took a year of Swedish at my university. In one session, a woman from Sweden spoke to our class. She commented that they had ways to integrate migrants, just like the USA, and yes, there were problems in big cities. But, she pointed out, there are not many big cities in Sweden. Malmö, particularly. So, the problem disappeared, because most Swedes live in small rural communities. There are a series of Inga Lindstroem films, which are shown on German-speaking TV in particular. They are usually set in rural Scandinavia, especially Sweden, and usually in the summer. And I cannot remember them ever addressing the Muslim migrants and problems associated. Even when people visit or live in Stockholm, you do not see any ethnic looking people on the streets or as characters. People are avoiding the issue in their popular culture, it seems. I have many friends in Central Europe who speak highly of Islam and Muslims, and attribute violence to radical extremists, leaving words like Islamic or Muslim out of the discourse. They say their Muslim students at school are so very nice, and they even have reference to Jesus, Mary and Joseph in their scriptures. So, it seems there is no problem at all. So long as they keep their heads in the sand, I suppose.
Christianity has taught the Swedes and the Europeans magical thinking and wishful thinking. Or is it the reverse? We begin as children as magical thinkers and if we don’t learn to reason and develop the courage to reason all the way and accept the facts of reality we remain prone to magical and wishful thinking.
I experience this in my myself all the time. I long for an after-life, for reincarnation, for an escape from mortality. For an escape from the pain and suffering of life. I long to repair the harms I committed in my past which I can not repair. I long to be with my loved ones who have passed away, long to be with them forever. I long for a miracle-magical solution for economic and financial scarcity. I long for miracle cures.
Religion comes from magical and wishful thinking.
“The majority of those who are loosely identified by the term “liberals” are afraid to let themselves discover that what they advocate is statism. They do not want to accept the full meaning of their goal; they want to keep all the advantages and effects of capitalism, while destroying the cause, and they want to establish statism without its necessary effects. They do not want to know or to admit that they are the champions of dictatorship and slavery.” – Ayn Rand
Europe’s feckless, emasculated, naive, stupid and self-destructive dhimmitude has enabled what is effectively jihad by immigration. The conquest that Muslims are unable to accomplish by terrorist shootings, bombings, truck collisions and other assorted violence, they will accomplish by immigration and procreation. All while being enabled and coddled by Europe’s feckless, clueless and useless leaders (save the leaders of the Visegrad states, Romania and Switzerland).
They should be allowed to practice their religion to themselves but don’t force themselves on us
Faith and force are corollaries, one follows the other. When faith is the predominant way a person thinks he will have to force you to believe his unprovable, supernatural, mystical claims. He can’t us gentle persuasion because gentle persuasion depends on showing and demonstrating the facts of reality by using reason and logic.
How do you prove that Moses parted the Red Sea? How do you prove that a body dead for three days can come back to life and then rise through the sky to an eternal, supernatural, utopia? How do you prove 72 virgins in Paradise? How do you prove camel urine cures cancer? You CAN’T and if you want others to believe those claims who refuse to believe those claims without proof your only option is to FORCE them to believe.
Of course, they still won’t believe the mystical, supernatural, bullshit deep inside, but they’ll have to pretend they do. And that’s really what the religious mystic longs for, to destroy the unbeliever’s independent mind. And by so doing deceive himself too that he has the power to change and destroy the facts of reality by his act of will.
The religious mystic deceives himself, and you, that he is only God’s representative on earth, he is only his devotee, only his proxy, only his priest, only his pastor, only his imam, only his mullah, only his Pope, but he really wants to be God and your ruler.
Yes anyone can see what is going to happen with a grain of sense. The question , what is that person going to do to save his Country?…………Nothing until it’s too late which I would say is upon their County now.
I learned about the Islamization of Europe with Bruce Bawer’s 2008 book, “While Europe Slept.” That was facilitated by the “Unholy Alliance” of Western Leftists (David Horowitz’s book 2006) with Fascist Islam. FIRST STEP: propaganda and indoctrinations of Westerners to hate their country, their culture and feel GUILT for being white and an advanced society. It’s fairly far along in Europe and it is being done by the Democrat Communist Party in control of America.
Mass foreign migration is utilized in Europe as a “Demographic Jihad” and, in the US to destroy American cultural unity (National Suicide). No assimilation means no American Culture. Leftist FascistCommies and anti-West Fascist Muslims have a common goal of destroying Judeo-Christian Western Civilization. In Europe, the Muslims will eventually dominate and oppress all the guilt ridden, suicidal infidels.
In 1630 the Christians fled to America and were free from the tyranny. Now the only place to flee to is the grave and the heavens. The Apostle Paul said it this way; “For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better: nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you”.
I thought only MAGA white people were a threat to Jews???
The only solution to this is for European countries to deport all Muslims back to the third-world Neanderthal societies from whence they came. This is the only way to salvage Western society and the modicum of Christianity that remains in Europe.
Similarly, the US must stop importing Muslims, and begin the process of deporting them. The fact is that Muslims and Islam are incompatible with the West. We in the West have every legal and moral right to do this as it is in our national security to do so. Cultural security is national security.
The Muslim invasion of the West is merely the latest iteration of Islam’s war on Christianity and Western Society. Their existence in the West is a Trojan Horse aimed at destroying the West.
The West must awake from its slumber, recognize the threat, and act to counter it. Otherwise, Westerners are doomed in their own countries. Some of us will not accept this. If the government authorities do not act, then civil war will ensue.