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Bernardo Cervellera, over at Catholic Online<\/a>, bemoans Europe\u2019s lackadaisical response to the persecution of Christians.\u00a0 He suggests the timidity is the result of falling contracts with failed dictators.\u00a0 I believe it\u2019s much deeper, and not just because of some vague charge of secularism.\u00a0 I believe it\u2019s because Europe is a post-Western society.\u00a0 It has spent\u00a0multiple generations focusing exclusively on the sins of their fathers.\u00a0 They have developed a warped and twisted level of neurotic guilt that has convinced them that Europe, and by extension America, are the truly evil players of history.\u00a0 All other cultures and civilizations were in all likelihood not that bad. Even if things like conquest, imperialism, genocide, mass slaughter occurred \u2013 it was no doubt with the best of intentions.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

This is unlike Europe and America, that are seen as inferior in every way.\u00a0 Stupid, boorish, evil, racist, bigoted, intolerant, prudish, barbaric, smelly, uncouth, sexist, homophobic \u2013 you name it.\u00a0 Nothing, not one thing, good came of that.\u00a0 Anything that was good was almost a bizarre happenstance, a cosmic coincidence.\u00a0 And nothing exemplified that more than the Christian faith.\u00a0 Not a few Christians, those stragglers who are left, who live in Europe embrace that very notion.\u00a0 So it should come as no shock at all that Europe sees the uptick in persecution and murder of Christians around the world and yawns.\u00a0 What of it?\u00a0 The source and summit of evil is getting its just deserts.\u00a0 Besides, when other cultures do such things, it is defensible.\u00a0 And in all likelihood, it\u2019s our fault in the first place, so it\u2019s what we have coming to us.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"