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2007-07-14 Europe

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Posted by lotp 2007-07-14 08:48|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 My wife read the article this morning. It seemed to me that it is similar there in Sweden as it is here in the States: mainline Protestant congregations being dominated by gray heads while the swingin' Evangelical joint down the block is packed with the younger crowd.

Of course the fact that the church jobs in Sweden are akin to Government jobs and therefore run with all the concomitant enthusiasm could make it a bit worse for the "Lutherans" of the "Church" of Sverige.

Posted by eLarson 2007-07-14 10:20|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-07-14 10:20|| Front Page Top

#2 God's tentative return to Europe has scholars and theologians debating a hot question: Why? Part of the reason, pretty much everyone agrees, is an influx of devout immigrants. Christian and Muslim newcomers have revived questions relating to faith that Europe thought it had banished with the 18th-century Enlightenment.

I find it a bit curious how this article could possibly lump fundamentalist Muslims into this equation. If anything, people might be driven into the churches as a haven against Islam's intimidation and violence. Glossing over the huge threat represented by Muslim colonization of Europe certainly doesn't help. My own take is that after so many decades of thefrequently socialisticstate as religion, the failure of European socialism has people searching for some other sort of moral or philosophical anchor. None of this addresses the more fundamental issue of how Europe has abandoned its Renaissance tradition of reason being the ultimate arbiter of knowledge and morality.

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2007-07-14 12:51|| 2007-07-14 12:51|| Front Page Top

#3 wow - that's not nice. I posted a long, heart-felt missive only to have it disappear never to be seen again.

Posted by Angaiger Tojo1904 2007-07-14 14:20|| 2007-07-14 14:20|| Front Page Top

#4 Living in the Bible Belt of the South, the "God is dead" idea has never really caught on. Most people here never thought God ever was dead.

Posted by JohnQC 2007-07-14 16:07|| 2007-07-14 16:07|| Front Page Top

#5 Same thing happened to me recently, too, AT-a post that was lily white in terms of potential offense. What's going on, Rantburg?

Posted by Jules 2007-07-14 18:54|| 2007-07-14 18:54|| Front Page Top

#6 Fred's been working under the hood to deal with some really nasty haXors. Mine get lost sometimes too, of late.

Posted by lotp 2007-07-14 19:40|| 2007-07-14 19:40|| Front Page Top

#7 Oh. Ok, thanks, lotp.

Posted by Jules 2007-07-14 20:14|| 2007-07-14 20:14|| Front Page Top

#8 It's like on this side of the pond the smart youngsters voting Republican and thinking conservative, because the nasty old fossils are Democrat Progressives.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-07-14 23:17|| 2007-07-14 23:17|| Front Page Top

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