Monday, August 15, 2005
Many meanings of faith
Every now and then an idea floats out there that seems fundamental to many aspects of life. That "aha!" thing happens and you go wild, saying seeing how it applies here and here and there. Random Jottings raised just such an idea yesterday:
"All these problems are really the same problem. Europe has lost its faith. Its Christian faith, its Jewish faith, its faith in its own civilization, and in the future. Immigrants don't assimilate because there's now nothing to assimilate to. The economy is stagnant because the missing entrepreneurial spirit is a kind of faith, a faith that is willing to sacrifice present comforts to build dream-like futures. Its democracies are sclerotic because real leadership is a form of faith, a willingness to take perilous paths of change or reform without knowing exactly how things will turn out. Europe's multiculturalism is a fig leaf to hide the lack of belief in anything. Its pacifism is a lie to cover the unwillingness to fight for anything."
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