“A young and cultivated Dutchman of my acquaintance, appalled by the thinness and superficiality of modern culture and its deliberate disconnection from the glories of the past of our civilisation, recently told me that he was going to convert to Catholicism. He was far from a believer but, rightly or wrongly, he saw the church as the only possible bastion against the tide of cultural barbarism that is engulfing most of Europe…”
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Except for this guy. Oh, and dude here.
Note that Judaism and Christianity are two-fold bastions: against radical Islam and the “cultural barbarism” that includes everything from embrionic stem cell tinkering to Paris Hilton. Atheism is only a bulwark against the former, and not a very solid one.
