When you start with nothing, you get nothing! I understand your dilemna, Mr. Auster. We expect the British to be slightly more conservative and polite in their ‘sins’. And perhaps the influences of our shores have not fully reached their coast. By influences, I refer of course to the brazen attitude we have inherited from evry source of public evil. Teaching atheism leads to what? Sad to say, there is no such animal as ‘atheism’. We like to put all our indifferences in neat packages. It is a fool who denies the existence of God. The very heavens declare His Glory and show forth His handiwork. Consider human birth. That drop of spermatoza has no brain. It is licquid in form. It cannot think or reason. But from this source every fibre of our being, the tissue and blood and arteries and skeletal frame are all lined up perfectly in the shape and substance of a human being. I would, as well as you, wish to go out of this frame believing that God is than to awake on the other side and discover, that if I was an atheist, I was truly wrong! Look at nature. Conside the garlic. Were it created whole we would take a bite and throw the rest awat. But, no. God made it in segmented form to be reserved for later! Each clove in its own paper jacjet. Look at the fruit of the tree on the bough. See how it fits in the hollow of your hand. If it were made too heavy, the fruit would weigh down. But, no. He knew the exact number and weight for each tree. Look at the horse. Its neck reaches the ground from a standing position. Supposen its elongation was too short. The animal would be forced to stoop to eat. Who put the wax on the watermelon to keep it from bursting from the heat of the sun? Who placed th sun exactly in the universe so that if it were five miles closer, the degree of farenheit would change to our discomfort. We exoerience a median average of 70 degrees around the globe. Atheism is a room without lights!

I am not sure I find the decay of other Western nations more disturbing than that of America, but, with Mr. Auster, I find it very disturbing indeed. That may be for two reasons, one generally applicable, the other particular to Europe.

As we witness the endless change in America that sunders our country ever more from its roots, traditionalist Americans look abroad for an ally among the Western nations, one that has succeeded in holding fast to its faith and traditions. It is profoundly disquieting to find none; to realize that there is no nation standing against the multiculturalist liberal tide that would wash away everything that has made us what we are.

When we look back to the Europe whence we came, we fancy that Europe’s ancient states, which seem very old, rooted and ethnically homogeneous compared to America, should treasure their heritage enough to defend it. Again, it is disquieting to find that isn’t so; that those nations’ elites are if anything more eager to destroy their nations than our elites are to destroy America. We learn, painfully, that even very deep roots in blood and soil are little defense against the determined destroyers of liberalism.

For Christians, and especially Catholics, there is another source of disquiet. Every major denomination has embraced transformative liberalism. When one looks to Rome, to the oldest and greatest of Christendom’s institutions, he sees an old Pope … kissing the Koran. Traditionalism is today’s insurrection. HRS

I think Mr. Sutherland has nailed it. It is quite disheartening to realize that the poison is everywhere in the West - there is literally no place in which one can escape it. I guess one could make the argument that Japan is part of the West (Buchanan did in his book “The Death of the West”) and that it seems resistant to the multiculturalist onslaught, at least for now. But Japan is its own unique case. They managed to preserve much of their own traditional culture while adapting selected aspects of Western civilization in order to enable their survival during the period of colonialism. It is this non-liberal culture beneath the Western surface that gives Japan the ability to resist.

The British may as well acknowledge and openly indoctrinate their new state religion.

“Why is it that I find news of the decline of other Western countries more disturbing than similar news about our own country?”

I often feel the same way. Part of it may stem from the age of those nations. We have so much more invested in those places, and hence the loss seems all the greater. Our roots are pretty thin here, especially west of the Appalachian divide.

Another factor is the lack of good news from such places. You hear a ukase from the Curricular Authority and there’s nothing you can do about it. But if some equal lunacy emanates from the Ninth Circuit, you can always walk out the door and stroll down to the local Dairy Queen for a crème-de-menthe sundae. When the young lady smiles and gives you correct change, there’s your good news, there’s your balance, there’s your perspective.

One way to counter such inherent distortion would be to seek out the good guys in the other country and give them an encouraging word. (Or a few pence.) In this case, there are classical, Christian and homeschooling advocates in the UK as well as here.

the link doesn’t work at present (seems to be linked to VFR’s archives), can you fix it or give it again, Mr. Auster?

The original link was bad, but I found a similar story on the same subject and linked it.

RedFred gives us a glance into the mind of the nihilistic, suicidal Euro-left. I’ll be interested in seeing what tune he and his comrades will be singing once Sharia is established as the law of the new Europe. I expect the mullahs will have few qualms about how to deal with RedFred and his friends. It is also curious to see a resident of a semi-totalitarian country like Blair’s UK refer to the “jackboot” of Christianity.

I deleted RedFred’s post just before Carl’s appeared. I initially wasn’t going to, figuring it’s good to let a certain kind of mentality reveal itself, but then RedFred posted again, and it was also a cheap shot, so I deleted him.

I feel VFR has been improved by my greater alacrity at excluding hostile or annoying posters. But sometimes it’s a tough call.

It was not a cheap shot. But nice to see how open you all are to others opinions.

My apologies if I appeared hostile I didn’t see anything in my post that was any more so than I read elsewhere in your site, the only difference I could see was that I don’t happen to agree with you. But hey its your site.

FYI I am not Leftist or communist, only I see how I must appear that way to the religious right. I don’t really understand what the comment about the Sharia, I guess it must come from an assumption that I am against the war in Iraq, which I am not, or that there is going to be some kind of Muslim revolt to overthrow the semi-totalitarian UK which I doubt because unlike the US our Christians, Muslims and Atheists can seem to get along just fine. And finally I wouldn’t care anyway because I do not live there I am (as if you needed another reason to dislike me) an accursed immigrant.