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Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. (JN 8:32)
TORUS, actually I have been to Europe lately, thank you. I don't think my statements are unsubstantiated. I'm basing it on the fact that western Europe won't exist in another generation. They are collapsing under large numbers of Muslim immigrants, low birth rates, social programs they can't support, etc. Why is Europe allowing this - because it has lost sight of who and what they are. These are not unsubstantiated claims. Societal safety nets are appropriate only if they can be supported. Europe cannot support its safety nets without large numbers of immigrants and high taxes. If Europe is a model of having it together, they are in big big trouble.
Later, vato.
Citizen, if the reason that wealthy countries have lost their faith is because of substantial social safety nets, then how do you explain the fervency of European Muslims. They fall under the same social safety nets yet are only growing in European converts. The reason Europeans and the rest of the developed world has lost its faith is because it has lost sight of who and what they are. They have collapsed under the weight of political correctness that tells them that their religion and culture are meaningless and inferior.
The perpetual death spiral is when you stop believing in God then you will believe in anything. Europeans believe in being taking care from cradle to grave and have become infantilized to the point of not only unable to take care of themselves but unable to even reproduce the next generation. To say that someone in a third world country have fallen into despair and depression about the future rather make any of the changes necessary for secuirty here and now is absurd and condescending. I was born into a middle class family and now have a beautiful family and substantial income yet I believe in Our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Always have and always will. Amen.
P.S. America take note, we are heading in the same direction as Europe.
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