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While everyone acknowledges the decline of Christianity in Europe, nobody seems to notice that other great demise taking place - the demographic decline of Europeans themselves. A critical look at the secular world reveals how this population decline is caused by some of its more 'enlightened' and 'progressive' post-Christian dogma.
These include; the 'common sense' of contraception, the 'right' to abortion, the 'equality' of homosexual relationships. Women, thanks to contraception, giving their most fertile years to a career, not to mention to a live-in lover in no hurry to commit; the 'normality' of promiscuity leading to the devastating consequences of AIDS in some countries and infertile young women in others.
These dogma combine to produce, over time, an exponential decline in births. This results not only in economic collapse (with shrinking markets and tax base, deflation, crumbling welfare systems, etc), but also in eventual extinction. Of course, nobody acknowledges the causes of the falling birthrate and its devastating consequences. This after all, would be to admit to the absurdity of 'enlightened' attitudes in the face of harsh reality.
All in all, it seems that by dismissing the divinity of Christ and by rejecting its roots in Catholicism, Western Civilisation has created a 'nice' make-believe world which is ultimately, unsustainable. Who would have believed the Catholic Church would outlive the secular triumph? Which brings to mind Christ's words on establishing it, that 'the gates of Hell will never overcome it.' (Matthew 16:18). So much for 'survival of the fittest' then. The Catholic Church has been vindicated!
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