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Friday, June 2, 2006
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Brave new world
By Patrick J. Buchanan
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Posted: June 2, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

Writing in that fateful year, 1939, T.S. Eliot, intellectual and 
Christian, admonished his contemporaries who had placed their faith in
the triumph of democracy. Democracy is not enough, Eliot wrote.

''As political philosophy derives its sanction from ethics, and ethics
from the truth of religion, it is only by returning to the eternal
source of truth that we can hope for any social organization which will
not, to its ultimate destruction, ignore some essential aspect of
reality.

''The term 'democracy,' as I have said again and again, does not contain
enough positive content to stand alone against the forces you dislike -
it can easily be transformed by them. If you will not have God (and He
is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler and Stalin.''

When Eliot wrote, the world had before it a textbook example of 
how democracy can be exploited by its enemies: the Third Reich.

After his failed Beer Hall Putsch in 1923, Hitler decided to 
take the longer road to power, the democracy road.

Named chancellor of Germany as leader of the largest minority party in
the Reichstag in 1933, Hitler used plebiscites to enable the German
people to participate in his rule and ratify his policies. After the
reoccupation of the Rhineland and the Anschluss with Austria, national
referenda were held. Up to 99 percent of all Germans endorsed his
actions. 
By Munich, he was the most popular political leader in Europe.

This, then, is the point. Democracy is but a process by which people
participate in choosing and confirming their rulers. But if the peoples
of Europe have lost their belief in the truths of Christianity - the
faith that made Europe - and the morality and ethics derived from those
truths, they can wind up with a hell on earth.

Which brings us to Holland, a nation that can rightfully claim to be in
the avant-garde of post-Christian Europe.

In Amsterdam, in the Red Light District, there are brothels, sex shops
and sex museums. Women advertise their charms in storefronts. Window 
prostitution has been legalized, as has possession of marijuana and
hashish, which are sold over the counter in coffee shops. Drugs are done
openly. Pornography is pervasive.

Amsterdam has a ''liberal and tolerant attitude,'' runs a web ad.
''Instead of criminalizing everything, this upfront city wears its heart
on its sleeve.'' Not to be outdone, Utrecht has a canal-based red light
district. Rotterdam has sex clubs and private houses for the legalized
enjoyment of the pleasures of the flesh.

Holland also leads Europe in the ''liberal and tolerant'' stance it has
taken toward suicide. In April 2002, a Dutch law took effect permitting
physicians to assist in euthanasia and suicides so long as the procedure
is carried out in a medically appropriate fashion.

Anyone 16 or over has a right to suicide. If you are between 12 and 16,
you have to get your guardian's approval to kill yourself. In World War
II, the Dutch doctors who resisted the Nazi euthanasia program were
heroes. Apparently, those doctors were just behind the times.

The latest news from Holland is that a new party is about to be formed,
the Charity, Freedom and Diversity Party. Principal platform plank:
reduction of the legal age for sex from 16 to 12 years old.

''We are going to shake The Hague awake!'' say the pedophiles of
Holland, for whom dropping the age for sex to 12 is but the beginning.
They wish to eradicate all prohibitions on sex with children and with
animals.

This, of course, would cheer the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey, the American
sexologist whose ''researchers'' either abused scores of children and
infants, or who used the testimony of child-molesters to make the case
that adult-child sex can be beneficial to both.

Which brings us back to Eliot's point. If one rejects 
Christianity, and the morality and ethics that proceed from it, on what
ground does one stand to outlaw drugs, prostitution, euthanasia,
assisted suicide and sex with children or dogs?

Holland today, and America - with its toll of aborted babies now nearing
the 50 million mark since Roe v. Wade - raise profound questions for
conservatives and traditionalists.

What if the free society chooses to become a decadent and depraved
society? Do we still owe it allegiance and loyalty? Does a community
have the right to impose its values, if those values are rooted in
religion, on a minority that disbelieves in those values? We certainly
did that during the civil rights era of the 1960s.

At what point does a regime, even if democratically elected, become
illegitimate, as surely Hitler's was by the time Eliot wrote?

''What makes you think the West is worth saving?'' the priest asked
Whittaker Chambers when he visited him in that hospital room in the
1950s. Good question then. Better question now.

Perhaps the Muslims, who may well be a majority in Amsterdam, Rotterdam
and The Hague in 10 years, will moot the issue for us all.

© 2006  

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