European civilisationfinished?

"If European nations abandon their Christian roots they are doomed to disappear from the historical arena, Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Russia said. 'Modern Europe will not create a new post-Christian culture and civilization but will simply vanish from history,' Alexy II said at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow on Wednesday evening. 'Losing their Christian roots, the people of Europe will sign their own death warrant,' he said. Alexy II recalled that he talked about 'the need to preserve moral Christian values,' without which 'it is hard to imagine European culture and Europe itself,' in his speech at the PACE in October this year."
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Londiniensis said…
The hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church have ever been Russian first, Orthodox second and Christian third. It is therefore difficult to stomach being lectured to on European culture and on the idea of Europe itself by someone to whom an appreciation of both Christendom and the Enlightenment is utterly foreign. In view of the prevailing Russian slave mentality, formed under generations of autocratic rule be it Tsarism, Communism or now "Putinism", perhaps the Patriarch should work more to establish a true Christian - and human - consciousness among his own flock.
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