Shouldn't We In Europe.....

[Khandro]

"Be careful, be very careful. What has happened here will come to you." — An elderly priest in Iraq, to Father Benedict Kiely.
Last year, more than 90,000 people chose to drop out of the Church of Sweden -- almost twice as many as the year before. Meanwhile, in one year, 163,000 migrants, most of them Muslim, entered the country.
"Shouldn't the issue of Middle Eastern Christians wake up European civilization to its core identity? Shouldn't we in Europe and the West be telling ourselves that these attacks are also aimed at us?" — Mathieu Bock-Côté, in Le Figaro.

[tamborine]

Am alert to encroachment & will not be cowed! When push comes to shove my pigs will take the strain ;)

[Khandro]

Unless things alter, we will sink under a one-sided tide of apathy.
An acquaintance says how last Saturday in a busy Hampstead street a young man could be seen walking along wearing a tee shirt on which was emblazoned, "(the f word) God! Believe in Yourself" and under was a picture of the cross.

I wonder how many devout (or agnostic) souls he managed to offend in the course of the day, taking advantage of the libertarian environment in which he lives. He wouldn't have strolled through a Middle Eastern city wearing an obscene message about the prophet Muhammad - come to think about it, he wouldn't have got far with that in London either.

[jackthehat]

Did those 90,000 Swedes simply disappear?

Discarding the yoke of religion does not equate with throwing away any feeling of patriotism.

[atalanta]

Is the drop in the number of congregants something to do with the old Swedish Church tax ? If non-church people no longer have to pay the Church tax, no wonder they declare themselves non-Christian.