10-30-2014, 08:29 PM
I really enjoyed watching Dr. Madden's lecture. He certainly is a lonely figure among his European and American colleagues, most of whom present a very false figure of the Crusades.
It really is a shame the crusaders weren't more successful; perhaps the looming threat of a Germany or a France with a Muslim majority among their children would be a nonissue. They say, that by 2050 the majority of children born in Germany would be Muslim. How scary is that? (Though it doesn't help that German women now average at fewer than one child each ... That I'm sure we can relate to the near universal use of contraceptive measures, the worship of goods (dilemma: house in Mallorca or children), apathy toward Christianity, White guilt, etc. Basically Europe is a mess.)
It really is a shame the crusaders weren't more successful; perhaps the looming threat of a Germany or a France with a Muslim majority among their children would be a nonissue. They say, that by 2050 the majority of children born in Germany would be Muslim. How scary is that? (Though it doesn't help that German women now average at fewer than one child each ... That I'm sure we can relate to the near universal use of contraceptive measures, the worship of goods (dilemma: house in Mallorca or children), apathy toward Christianity, White guilt, etc. Basically Europe is a mess.)