David Warren on the death of Europe

I think David Warren is a really terrific, thoughtful and reflective writer who tends to see things not quickly noticed by others. This piece is a stand-out must-read:

As the 20th century progressed, we saw two great ideological manifestations of an Atheism inconceivable to the European past — respectively Communism, and Nazism. Together they committed horrors on such a scale, as to cause a partial recoil into belief. I’ve come to think the recovery of “traditional Christianity”, “family values”, the birth rate, and so forth — phenomena we associate with the 1950s — was only a response to that. At the core, Europe was mortally wounded, and the birth rates quickly fell again, to what they’d been in the 1920s and ’30s, and then lower still. The 1950s were, on this view, like the hesitation of the suicide on the brink. He shrinks for a moment, then makes his final leap.

Soon, the average age in Europe will be beyond childbearing. Among non-Muslim Europeans, in probably already is. We can no longer dream of a recovery. Europe has leapt. New immigrants are taking possession of the continent, transforming it, as in the “Dark Ages”. Rome will be sacked again, in due course.
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Then realize, that Europe did not create Christianity. Christianity created Europe. And will create new Europes, wherever its living seed may fall. Christendom is simply moving — to Africa, to Asia, to the Americas perhaps; to wherever Christ is wanted, and away from where He is not.

You’ll want to read it all