RESPONSE TO REGNUM LUCITANICUM

Submitted by DANIEL REDMOND (United States), Nov 26, 2009 at 14:23

Sorry, Regnum, but it appears that you are living in some sort of bizarre time warp wherein you view the past as being the future and the present as the past. Your assertion that Europe is destined to rule the world would be better submitted as a post-mortem on Europe's well-known history of colonization, most often coupled with extremes of oppression and brutality [the psychopathic Vasco de Gama being one of its worst purveyors of misery] than as a presentiment of Europe's future greatness.

Europe's glory days have long since abated and its only recent effort towards a European revival was the sordid attempt of Hitler's Third Reich to lead Germany into a place of world domination some 70 years ago.

Your equally outdated assertion that the nations of the Western Hemisphere remain little more than colonies of Europe is sadly delusional. Europe was only saved from self-destruction through the military intervention of the United States, Canada and Australia during World War II and has remained an economic and military colony of the United States ever since.

And Europe is in the process of becoming colonized in another way as well; by a Muslim invasion that has led some fifty million members of Islam to Europe's shores in the past two decades. Just look around you---whether you be in Denmark, Italy, France or anywhere else in Europe---and see the proliferation of mosques everywhere and the shameless and obsequious manner in which spineless European societies have accepted this social colonization in their very midst. Rather than to assert cultural dominance, Europeans have chosen to 'roll over and play dead' when confronted by their new Islamic invaders.

One last point: You say of Americans that "They don't have a secular history...." and I can to some degree understand this misconception in so far as the United States is still largely populated by those of some relgious faith. [I happen not to be among them.] But the reality is that our Founding Fathers---men like George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin---were secularists and they created our founding document, the United States Constitution, based upon secular principles. We are in fact the first nation in history to have been founded thus so, with no official allegience to any god or gods or religious institutions, unlike the England left behind by so many colonists. So the reality is that we do have a secular history and, as the world's oldest republic, it remains in force till this day.

- DANIEL REDMOND

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