{"id":12536,"date":"2012-02-18T19:29:25","date_gmt":"2012-02-19T00:29:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=12536"},"modified":"2012-02-18T20:22:29","modified_gmt":"2012-02-19T01:22:29","slug":"how-civilizations-die-%e2%80%93-how-this-all-relates-to-christianity-the-west-islam-judaism-israel-america-europe-and-you-today-part-6-final-segment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/watchwomanonthewall\/2012\/02\/how-civilizations-die-%e2%80%93-how-this-all-relates-to-christianity-the-west-islam-judaism-israel-america-europe-and-you-today-part-6-final-segment.html","title":{"rendered":"How Civilizations Die \u2013 How this all relates to Christianity, the West, Islam, Judaism, Israel, America, Europe and YOU today! (Part 6) (Final Segment)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Part 6 – How Civilizations Die<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Watchwoman<\/strong>:<\/span> This is Part 6, the final segment here on Watchwoman on the Wall blog. \u00a0I\u2019m sorry, but that is all.\u00a0 I hope that in sharing this with you, you\u2019ll follow my strong urging you to check out www.Amazon.com<\/a> where you can read<\/span><\/strong> the first chapter,<\/strong> the praise for this remarkable book<\/strong> \u2014 and all the chapter headings<\/strong>, and most of all where you can order it<\/strong>. Check e-bay too, might even be cheaper.\u00a0 This is a book about living rather than dying \u2013 and will provide you with what you need to accept God\u2019s love and His Will for planet earth<\/span><\/em>.\u00a0 \u25ac Donna Calvin<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Related Holy Scripture Verses<\/strong><\/p>\n

[King James Version – [Genesis 1:28]\u00a0<\/strong> And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.<\/p>\n

[King James Version – Genesis 9:1]\u00a0<\/strong> And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.<\/p>\n

[King James Version – Deuteronomy 30:19]\u00a0<\/strong> I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:<\/p>\n

[King James Version – John 3:16]\u00a0<\/strong> For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0HOW CIVILIZATIONS DIE
\n(And Why Islam is Dying Too)<\/strong><\/p>\n

By David P. Goldman
\nOnline Columnist \u201cSpengler\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chapter 10, Pages 137-155<\/strong><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve heart about the Death of the West.\u00a0 But the Muslim world is on the brink of an even greater collapse.
\nWill we go down in the implosion?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

ISLAM:
\nTHE ARABS AS CHOSEN PEOPLE<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0154<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0According to Franz Rosenzweig, jihad is the supreme Muslim act of sanctification precisely because war is the most sacred act of pagan society in general:<\/p>\n

The concept of the Path of Allah is entirely different than God\u2019s path. The paths of God are the disposition of divine decrees high above human events. But following the path of Allah means in the narrowest sense propagating Islam through holy war. In the obedient journey upon this path, taking upon one\u2019s self the associated dangers, the observance of the laws prescribed for it, Muslim piety finds its way in the world. The path of Allah is not elevated above the path of humankind, as far as the heaven stretches above earth, but rather the path of Allah means immediately the path of his believers. 15<\/sup><\/p>\n

Islam, in sum, is a religion in which personal self-sacrifice is rewarded by success, just as a soldier is rewarded for bravery in battle by a king. Death in jihad is the exemplary form of self-sacrifice which Islam offers its adherents, in place of the Judeo-Christian concept of vicarious sacrifice which gives life rather than takes it. And in the absence of success \u2014 in the face of spectacular economic and military failure over the past two generations of the Muslim encounter with modernity \u2014 Islam faces a crisis of faith from which it cannot recover, a crisis expressed most vividly in the closing of the Muslim womb.<\/p>\n

And, as we shall see, population collapse in the West is not unrelated to pagan religion, either \u2014 including even the pagan principle of self-sacrifice in holy war (as opposed to vicarious sacrifice in light of God\u2019s love). By the turn of the twentieth century, the Europeans subordinated Christianity to their own inclination towards self-adoration, and a neo-pagan strain of nationalism overwhelmed the universal impulse in Christian churches. At the time of World War I, the words \u201choly war\u201d were pronounced more often by Europeans than by Arabs. The catechism distributed to German military<\/p>\n

155<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>chaplains spoke of a \u201cgreat, holy war\u201d against \u201cevil.\u201d 16<\/sup> When the German army conquered Brussels in August 1914, the newspaper Der Tiigliche Rundschau<\/em> enthused, \u201cThe great times of heroes, which had almost become a legend, have returned. So, too, did our sons and brothers march off into the holy war.\u201d 17 <\/sup>And in England, in 1915, the Bishop of London indulged in this dumbfounding conflation of the sacrifice of Christ on the cross with British war aims: \u201cThe Church can best help the nation first of all by making it realize that it is engaged in a Holy War. Christ died on Good Friday for Freedom, Honour, and Chivalry, and our boys are dying for the same thing…. MOBILIZE THE NATION FOR HOLY WAR.\u201d 18<\/sup><\/p>\n

European civilization \u2014 and European demographics \u2014 have never really recovered from the 1914-1918 war. But how and why did what used to be Christendom succumb to pagan religious impulses, and eventually to the demographic decline that has been the fate of pagan societies since ancient Sparta? The failure of Christianity in Europe is a story that begins in the Dark Ages but does not reach its terrible denouement until the seventeenth century.<\/p>\n

The next page begins Chapter 11, but this is the last page that I\u2019m posting on Watchwoman on the Wall.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s time to secure your own copy of this book for yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Contact your local library or buy it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

BECAUSE THE NEXT TOPIC DISCUSSED IN CHAPTER 11 GOES INTO <\/strong><\/p>\n

HOW CHRISTIANITY DIED IN EUROPE<\/span>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

And how it died in Europe is what we need to stop here in America before it\u2019s too late!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>(Just the first sentence of Chapter 11, to whet your appetite for more!)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>In The Rise of Christianity<\/em>, Rodney Stark observes that Christian prohibition of abortion and infanticide contributed to the success of the new religion.\u201d<\/p>\n

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LINKS TO ALL 6 PARTS<\/strong><\/p>\n

Part 1 \u2013 How Civilizations Die \u2013 Posted February 13, 2012 \u2013 pps 137-140<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=12449<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 2 \u2013 How Civilizations Die \u2013 Posted February 14, 2012 \u2013 pps 141-143<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=12471<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 3 \u2013 How Civilizations Die \u2013 Posted February 15, 2012 \u2013 pps 143-146<\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=12494<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 4 \u2013 How Civilizations Die \u2013 Posted February 16, 2012 \u2013 pps 147-150<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=12507<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 5 \u2013 How Civilizations Die \u2013 Posted February 17, 2012 \u2013 pps 151-154<\/strong>
\n<\/strong>http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=12525<\/a><\/p>\n

Part 6 \u2013 How Civilizations Die \u2013 Posted February 18, 2012 \u2013 pps 154-155<\/strong><\/strong>
\nhttp:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/watchwomanonthewall\/?p=12536<\/a><\/p>\n

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