‘Repulsive’ Poland confronts Europe
Nearly 70 years after the invasion of Poland marked the beginning of a global cataclysm, the Central European nation once again finds itself confronting a foe it sees as a threat to Western civilization. While the rest of Europe largely accommodates a rising tide of secularism, many Polish leaders are prepared to fight back with a bold, traditional social agenda they envision not only for their own country but for the continent and the world.
The Chief finds this a surprising but welcome situation.
“The family is the hope for Poland, the hope for Europe, the hope for the entire world,” the 36-year-old leader told the global gathering of more than 3,300 from 75 nations. “… Without the family, there is no nation, there is no continent, there is no civilization, there is nothing.”
Although there is more in the story, that last statement says it all!
Perhaps a coincidence, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve certainly found this a growing concern myself. It’s not only a sense of family but the sense of an extended community that has a personal, as opposed to a governmental, concern for the common welfare of the community that seems to be declining as the secular society focuses upon “personal desires” without a corresponding expectation of personal responsibility.
Society requires common values and accountability to survive. Anonymity in a crowd, a focus on self desire without corresponding accountability is a blueprint for the destruction of both an individual and a society that not only allows such narcissism, but glamorizes and promotes it.
The “progressive” agenda of relying on government to provide for the common welfare, as history repeatedly demonstrates, is doomed to not only failure but genocide at it’s pinnacle. Any government powerful enough to ensure ones’ every need and want, will surely deny them in the end.
All true.