Hungarian PM’s chief of staff: Christianity disappearing from western Europe
Christianity is disappearing from public life in western Europe, while at the same time “the dictatorship of opinion” is growing stronger, the prime minister’s chief of staff said on Saturday.
In a speech at the consecration ceremony of a new reformed church in the town of Rakamaz, in north-eastern Hungary, Gergely Gulyás said that more than three decades after the fall of communist dictatorships in central Europe, “it appears that materialism is triumphant in western Europe.”
“If we want to see the kind of future that awaits countries that abandon Christianity, we should look no further than the churches of western Europe,” Gulyás said. “We can see how they’re being torn down and how coal mines, gas stations and shopping malls are being built in their places.”
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“We can see how they’re being converted into concert halls, hotels, fast food restaurants and how they’re being taken over by Muslims.” he said.
The disappearance of Christianity from western European public life is also leading to the disappearance of understanding, as well as to the rise of “the dictatorship of opinion” and “constraints that are incompatible with life like gender ideology being made mandatory”, he added.
What was considered “absurdist humour” two decades ago has now not only become reality but “a mandatory state ideology in western Europe’s welfare states”, Gulyás said.
In these times faith becomes all the more important for survival, Gulyás said. “We don’t need to move mountains; we just need to place stones and bricks on top of each other to build small communities,” he said. Building churches is proof of faith in the future, he added.
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Source: MTI
Christianity may well be disappearing from Western Europe but it sure ain’t coming here. The dictatorship of opinion growing stronger” Rather the dictatorship of Hungary is growing stronger. The fat cats get fatter. Get your own house in order before criticising others.
And where exactly is all this happening? What towns? Which countries? Don’t just say Western Europe Gulyas, that means nothing. Building a coal mine where a church once stood, how is that even possible. Churches taken over by muslims, not even the same building! Come on, don’t treat us as fools. And the whole of Fidesz are in church every Sunday before starting a wholesome week’s work on Monday morning! Of course they are.
Very sad and tragic.
We don’t want the same thing happen to Hungary.
Religion is the cause of many evils, whichever religion it is. Get shot of the whole lot! Oh, and thank you, once again, István, for your American perspective on matters Hungarian and European. I hope your comments are IRS deductible.
Hungary was once a Moslem country. See the beautiful medieval Eger mosque. Before the Expulsion, much of the Iberian peninsula was Moslem and Jewish. With the merest tweak of history, Western Europe and the Balkans would be Moslem. Both Christianity and Islam originated in the Middle East. Christianity was not born in white Western Europe. The enemies at the gates are not Moorish but intolerant racists. Churches turned into coal mines? What rubbish!
there is no ;ace for any religion in any country’s politics. It is the bane of human kind. Its intolerance, its rejection of true life. The bible is a book of fairy tales as is the quaran and the Torah. Any intelligent person espousing this rubbish ought to look at science and not some imagined deity