PRINCETON, New Jersey (CNS): Contemporary Europe’s efforts to eliminate vestiges of Christianity from its culture and its increasingly low birth rates are leading to its demise, according to Catholic author George Weigel.
The current situation in Europe is “multiculturalism run amok”, at times incoherent and often contradictory, he said during a May lecture at Princeton University in the United States, which was sponsored by the university’s Catholic campus ministry organisation.
Weigel’s comments were primarily based on his 2005 book, The Cube and the Cathedral: Europe, America and Politics Without God.
The author said that in all the states of the European Union radical secularists are seeking to eliminate the vestiges of Christianity from their culture.
To prove his point, he said the 2004 debate over excluding references to Christian heritage in the preamble of the proposed European Union constitution was all part of an effort to marginalise the dwindling number of practising Christians and to ban religious expression from the public square.
Weigel also pointed to the low birth rates in Europe and said the continent is in the process of committing demographic suicide.
