through various means I ran into Douglas Murray's new book The Strange Death of Europe. What he means by "death" is the loss of Europe's unique culture in that the culture is now becoming something other than what it has traditionally been. I read only a portion of it on books.google.com but watched tons of interviews with him to get the gist of what he's talking about. He's an atheist and that makes what he says in the book more startling. He blames part of the death on the loss of traditions and one of these traditions is traditional Christian belief. One of the things that is leading to Europe's demise is mass immigration of people who do not share the traditional European culture.
I think this, if anything, shows the moral effects of loss of Christian faith. It seems Europe, as a whole, does not have the will power to call good "good" and evil "evil" to the point it's not willing to fight for what it believes in - almost as if it's a patient waiting to die.
While immigrants are bringing about its culture death, Europeans are slowly killing themselves. This is not a surprise. It's been known that Europe is losing its Christian heritage and I've notice that secular liberals, it seems, are becoming more and more obsessed with death to the point they are pushing more of a "death culture" of abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. I've written about this recently in my Wordpress article https://thesecularleftcritique.word...o-life-and-death-the-liberal-left-is-immoral/ but for part of it I lean on a Newsweek article that is absolutely terrifying.
Winston Ross' article at http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/20/choosing-die-netherlands-euthanasia-debate-306223.html details the Netherlands experience with Euthanasia and it seems more and more people are becoming used to not fighting through life but deciding to die instead. Here's one of the more shocking quotes in the Newsweek article:
[FONT="]Another key factor: It’s getting easier each year to qualify for euthanasia. In the beginning, most of those eligible were terminally ill. Now doctors are helping people die if they no longer want to bear depression, autism, blindness or even being dependent on the care of others. “There are increasing numbers of double euthanasia—one of the partners is terminal and the other partner is care-dependent, they don’t want to live alone,” says Boer. One in 10 of the past 500 dossiers he has read contains some reference to “loneliness,” he adds. “Those are the cases where I have become increasingly uneasy.
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What is even more scary is that in American culture where there's thought of single payer health care, the government will be in charge of who gets care and who does not. With the costs going up, the pressure will be to get more people to accept early death in order to balance our budget and that involves coercing people to want to die much like the experience in Holland. I firmly believe that we could at some point see politicians claiming we have universal health care for all while those same people benefiting from the health care are being coerced to die!
Shocking isn't it?
I think this, if anything, shows the moral effects of loss of Christian faith. It seems Europe, as a whole, does not have the will power to call good "good" and evil "evil" to the point it's not willing to fight for what it believes in - almost as if it's a patient waiting to die.
While immigrants are bringing about its culture death, Europeans are slowly killing themselves. This is not a surprise. It's been known that Europe is losing its Christian heritage and I've notice that secular liberals, it seems, are becoming more and more obsessed with death to the point they are pushing more of a "death culture" of abortion, infanticide, assisted suicide, and euthanasia. I've written about this recently in my Wordpress article https://thesecularleftcritique.word...o-life-and-death-the-liberal-left-is-immoral/ but for part of it I lean on a Newsweek article that is absolutely terrifying.
Winston Ross' article at http://www.newsweek.com/2015/02/20/choosing-die-netherlands-euthanasia-debate-306223.html details the Netherlands experience with Euthanasia and it seems more and more people are becoming used to not fighting through life but deciding to die instead. Here's one of the more shocking quotes in the Newsweek article:
[FONT="]Another key factor: It’s getting easier each year to qualify for euthanasia. In the beginning, most of those eligible were terminally ill. Now doctors are helping people die if they no longer want to bear depression, autism, blindness or even being dependent on the care of others. “There are increasing numbers of double euthanasia—one of the partners is terminal and the other partner is care-dependent, they don’t want to live alone,” says Boer. One in 10 of the past 500 dossiers he has read contains some reference to “loneliness,” he adds. “Those are the cases where I have become increasingly uneasy.
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What is even more scary is that in American culture where there's thought of single payer health care, the government will be in charge of who gets care and who does not. With the costs going up, the pressure will be to get more people to accept early death in order to balance our budget and that involves coercing people to want to die much like the experience in Holland. I firmly believe that we could at some point see politicians claiming we have universal health care for all while those same people benefiting from the health care are being coerced to die!
Shocking isn't it?
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