MOSAIC MAGAZINE
by Terry Teachout
January 19, 2015

Wagner’s totalizing anti-Judaism is still alive. It just has a new face, fully revealed in this month’s attacks in Paris…..Meanwhile, Europe’s birthrates are plummeting in a way unmistakably indicative of an irreversible loss of societal morale. Five days before the dogs of war came calling on the staff of Charlie Hebdo, my own paper, the Wall Street Journal, ran a feature story about how churches all over Europe are closing their doors for lack of interest in religion. According to the author, such closings are fast becoming the norm in a continent that long nurtured Christianity but is becoming relentlessly secular. The closing of Europe’s churches reflects the rapid weakening of the faith in Europe, a phenomenon that is painful to both worshipers and others who see religion as a unifying factor in a disparate society. READ MORE