{"id":7680,"date":"2018-03-22T13:41:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7680"},"modified":"2018-03-22T13:41:05","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T17:41:05","slug":"bill-donohue-on-the-decline-of-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=7680","title":{"rendered":"Bill Donohue on the decline of Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Donohue<\/a> takes up the report I discussed yesterday<\/a>, 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.<\/p>\n

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Who saw this all coming? Pope Benedict XVI. He saw the effects of multiculturalism<\/span> as clearly as anyone, showing how a contempt for moral truths<\/span> that adhere to the Judeo-Christian ethos has led to \u201ca peculiar Western self-hatred that is nothing short of pathological<\/span>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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<\/span> of a civilization that has allowed moral relativism to triumph over Christianity. Just as Pope Benedict XVI said it would.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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.<\/p>\n

And what on earth is that quote from Pope Benedict XVI supposed to mean? Christianity deliberately, and ruinously, cultivates<\/i> 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<\/b><\/i> is to join their ridiculous club.<\/p>\n

Has Donohue ever actually thought about Christian teaching, its indispensable metaphysical claim: Original Sin? The evidence of his remarks is … No.<\/p>\n

Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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? … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7680"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7683,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7680\/revisions\/7683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}