A Dire Omen

Today, the day after Notre Dame Cathedral shockingly burned in Paris, France, Dennis Prager writes a piece entitled Notre Dame Is An Omen. Prager doesn't say so, but the fact that this happened during Holy Week makes it all the more sinister As my gentle readers probably know, Prager is himself a Jew, but he recognizes the continuity between Jewish religious practices and Christian religious practices. While the Jews have rejected the Christ, we Christians hope and pray that one day they will realize that the long prophesied Messiah has indeed come. Martin Luther recognized that at the final Judgement, the Jews would be first in line to get into the Kingdom of God.

Prager writes that the symbol of the burning cathedral matches with the burning of Christian Europe and  the burning of Western culture.  In abandoning Christianity, Europe has invited the Devil into its affairs.  Prager writes:

It is as if God Himself wanted to warn us in the most unmistakable way that Western Christianity is burning -- and with it, Western civilization.

Every major Western (and one major non-Western) social and intellectual force has conspired to rid Europe of Christianity and the civilization it produced.

Within the Western world, the French Enlightenment -- the intellectual basis of the French Revolution and the modern West -- sought to replace Christianity, and religion in general, with secularism rooted in reason. No God, Bible or Ten Commandments is necessary for morality or meaning: reason (and science) will replace them.

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I don't know if a worker accident or a radical Muslim set fire to Notre Dame Cathedral (as they have scores of other churches around Europe). In terms of what the fire represented, it doesn't much matter. What matters is the omen: Europe is burning, just as Notre Dame was.

Please read the entire piece. With God, of course, all things are possible, and Europe may not be lost to Christianity. But it is a dire warning that between Islam and the Left, Christianity is on the ropes even here in the United States. Yet it is at such times that God shows his power.  When we humans have done our best to screw things up, God steps in to set things right.  It is always so because in the end, we know that God's Will will be done.

Gentle readers, I ask you to pray with me that God brings all Americans to recognize that we enjoy His blessings only so long as we acknowledge He who grants them to us out of Hes abundant mercy and love.   As Easter approaches, let all of us remember.