Bill Donohue takes up the report I discussed yesterday, which further evidences that Christianity is in decline throughout Europe. He has too much sense to deny what everybody knows, but takes a predictable cheap shot.
Who saw this all coming? Pope Benedict XVI. He saw the effects of multiculturalism as clearly as anyone, showing how a contempt for moral truths that adhere to the Judeo-Christian ethos has led to “a peculiar Western self-hatred that is nothing short of pathological.”
The de-Christianization of the West has yielded such fruit as record high levels of abortion, out-of-wedlock births, homosexuality, divorce, sexually transmitted diseases, pornography, prostitution, drug abuse, depression, and suicide. This is the natural outcome of a civilization that has allowed moral relativism to triumph over Christianity. Just as Pope Benedict XVI said it would.
As I’ve shown repeatedly through the years, the family– and social-pathologies he names are in almost all cases most intense where the churches are strongest — here in the so-called Bible Belt.
And what on earth is that quote from Pope Benedict XVI supposed to mean? Christianity deliberately, and ruinously, cultivates self-hatred — the beliefs that you’re no damn good, that you can never be any damn good, that the only way to escape the eternal torture that you were born deserving is to join their ridiculous club.
Has Donohue ever actually thought about Christian teaching, its indispensable metaphysical claim: Original Sin? The evidence of his remarks is … No.
Bah.