While we abstain from making babies…

“Be fruitful and multiply” – that Biblical admonition is out of favor in the West.  The Mormon and Catholic churches have it right.  Large families serve a civilization-building purpose.  But many Catholics don’t care much for this doctrine, and Mormons are too few to have an impact.  Birth control, abortions, higher costs of raising kids, the popularity of deferring marriage and having promiscuous fun while single – these practices are hastening the demise of our western civilization.  “Why is that?”, you might ask.

Because at the same time the Islamic world IS being fruitful and multiplying.  They now constitute 25% of the world’s population and growing much more rapidly than any other sectarian or non-religious group.  Within as few as fifteen years several currently “Christian” countries will have Muslim majorities. France, the Netherlands and Britain are our canaries in the coal mine.  They will likely experience Muslim majorities within the next 15 to 20 years.  With the growing popularity of Sharia law, the tyranny of the majority is not far off.

The findings of a recent Pew research study are ominous for the West:

New Muslim Demographics Data Calls for Hard Decisions on Immigration

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Many European nations must address the issue of immigration quickly if they want a chance of preserving their existing culture and freedoms.  In this country, we need to decide whether Islam is a religion or an all-encompassing fascist political movement worthy of prohibition before we can stem the tide here.

Proliferate and Regulate or Succumb.  These will be our choices in the coming decades.

Two excellent books on this topic include Mark Steyn’s “America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It” and Pat Buchanan’s “The Death of the West: How Dying Populations and Immigrant Invasions Imperil Our Country and Civilization”.

"Values". What the heck are they?

The presidential campaign is rife with the "values" thing. Both Democrats and Republicans claim they understand the importance of "values", the need to defend our "values", to have strong "family values", ad nauseum.

What vague, meaningless tripe. What do they mean? Values are like belly buttons: everyone has them. Radical Islam has values, Al Capone had values, Brittany Spears has values. Even I have values.

What we don't hear much is a definition for "values." Unfortunately, most of the traditional values we've long held are out of vogue and the brunt of jokes and disdain. Traditional families, traditional gender roles, traditional moral behavior are all out of favor. The big pop-value now appears to be absolute tolerance of just about anything. A word for that is amorality. A made up synonym is "avalueity". This gets close to the meaning of most political messages.

Could this be why we don't hear any definition given on the stump: We've lost our "value-system" in this nation? Absolute tolerance for anything results in a valueless culture. A valueless culture is difficult to defend or promote. This explains, in part, why a large portion of our population cannot sustain a war more than a few months. We think that our values (whatever they are or used to be) are no better, maybe worse than, anyone elses. We are into self-loathing. Unfortunately, there are major populaton groups on earth who love their values more than we love ours (even if we could agree what they were), who believe their values are worth fighting for, and literally blowing themselves up for.

Granted, our military and many conservatives have a strong traditional value system that motivates and sustains them. But a large, influential, and growing portion of our population has lost their values compass.

How well does this scenario bode for our nation: A culture without values to motivate and sustain its' will, perseverance, and endurance versus a culture with values so strong and deeply held that they turn themselves into human bombs and are numerically the fastest growing population group and religion on the planet. I am speaking of Islam.

We are in a "values" war. And we will be on the losing end if we cannot rediscover values worth defending and promoting. The three decades of mocking and joking and ridiculing (e.g. Garrison Keillor, famed liberal, culture-mocking star of "A Prarie Home Companion" and late night comedy generally) and challenging the deeply held values of the past 200 years is not helpful to our survival. Nothing of any great society-sustaining ability has replaced those values that we have ACLUed out of existence.

I'm all for not taking ourselves too seriously and the occasional joke about our culture. The problem is, these jokesters and mockers and challengers really mean it. They really do seem to hate our historical culture and the values that founded our nation.

An excellent book well worth reading or listening to is "America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It" by Mark Steyn. He identifies our "values" problem as the greatest challenge to our success in the face of Islamic resurgence. To all of our valueless libs, can you say "Dhimmi" dummy?