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Europe, immigration, and Merkel?s Christian values

By Alliance Alert

Samuel Gregg writing at the Action Institute Power Blog: "Since the 1950s, many European Christians have gradually reduced their Christian faith to a vacuous humanitarianism worthy of the best EU-funded NGO. One difficulty with 'liberal Christianity' (or whatever's left of it) is that it isn't especially interested in affirming any Christian values that go beyond sentimental platitudes about tolerance and equality which are routinely emptied of any specific Christian content. It's goodbye Thomas Aquinas, hello John Rawls. This makes it even more ironic that increasing numbers of secular European thinkers believe Europe can only reinvigorate its distinct identity and values through reengaging its Judeo-Christian heritage."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on November 24, 2010 (boomark / email).