The Christian civilization of Europe is a dying ember, a ghost of its glorious past. The decline in religiosity, the growth of secularism, and the collapse of traditional Western values all attest to this fact. Walking down the streets of Europe, one hears mostly the echoes of a Christian civilization slowly fading into memory.

There’s a palpable sense of cultural exhaustion in the West right now, a sense of living through the late stages of dissolution. One thinks of the magnificent lines of Gloucester in Shakespeare’s :

These late eclipses in the sun and moon portend

no good to us...

love cools,

friendship falls off, brothers divide: in

cities, mutinies; in countries, discord; in

palaces, treason; and the bond cracked 'twixt son

and father...

We have seen the best of our time.

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