WHO DO YOU THINK WILL WIN?

EUROPEAN CHURCH ABANDONED TO BOOZE 

WILL WE ALSO ABANDON THE FAITH THAT GAVE US OUR STRENGTH AND OUR FREEDOM?

AND BOW TO A FOREIGN IDEOLOGY?

Sunday, 9:00 AM.  32 degrees F at the ferry dock, 29 on the back porch.  Wind SW, light with occasional stronger gusts.  The sky is cloudy with a high overcast and we have an inch or two of new snow on the ground but it is not snowing now.  The humidity is 88% and the barometer is rising, currently at 29.72".  It is a gloomy morning but it may improve.
   I do not talk politics on Sunday.  I am not violating my rule in the following brief discussion, because I am not discussing politics, but religion.  Both topics are minefields, but fools rush in where angels fear to tread.
   Let me construct a short scenario, prompted by last week's events in France.
   One culture revere's its origins and its history; the other sees its own as archaic and irrelevant.
   One culture maintains strong families; the other destroys its families through out of wedlock births, divorce, abortion, and homosexuality.
   One culture is strident and violent; the other is weak and passive.
   One population is armed; the other has disarmed itself.
   One culture is expanding demographically, through population increase and conquest; the other is declining rapidly, with a birth replacement rate below zero.
   Islam clings to its ideal of a caliphate, an expansionist religious-state, as it has for the past 1,500 years; Europe has largely abandoned Christianity, which is the author of its former strength and freedom.  Its churches and cathedrals have become lifeless museums, restaurants, nightclubs, skate parks.  America is not far behind.
   Which culture would you expect to survive and expand, and which would you expect would be defeated and disappear?
   Given no drastic change, who do you think will win?