Europe has drifted from it's Judaeo-Christian moorings and embraced The 'great' liberal thinkers of the 19th century, atheists and humanists such as Nietzsche (the father of nihilism) who said life has no meaning, therefore man should be courageous. Nietzsche believed man's spirit had been crushed by Judaeo-Christan weakness and that supermen were needed to create a new society based on existential heroes. Admiring Nietzsche, Adolf Hitler became that hero and the devastation of Europe resulted.
The 19th century saw a multitude of new/old liberal 'isms.(human, secular, relative, etc) coincident with the end of the European"Golden Era," and turn of the century anarchists. Europe suffered through the Great War, Communism, the great depression, the rise of Adolph Hitler, Nazis, World War II, and socialism. Socialist society turned secular, socialist and each succeeding generation moved further and away from the moral foundations of the Bible. Into this vacuum crept the old pagan "false religions" of humanism, environmentalism, relativism, pantheism, and hedonism, etc. As a result, their birthrates plummeted and immigration rose dramatically. Unfortunately, not being as egalitarian as America, they have failed to assimilate a large population of immigrants, particularly Muslims. Now these disenfranchised Muslim youth rebelling against the secular society are turning to crime and fundamental Islam. Possibly too late, the Europeans are recoqnizing the problem. Recently the French have prohibited Muslim school girls from wearing a head covering in public schools. Of course, Jewish school boys may no longer wear a yarmulke. This will probably encourage more militant Islamists who will not tolerate a secular society therefore it stands to reason that Europe will undergo a tremendous upheaval in the coming years. Given their history of appeasement, it appears that the European future is one of dhimmitude and submission. This will present real challenges to US/European relations.
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