Orbán: Christian forces are dominant in EU – UPDATE
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“Forces with a national conservative, sovereigntist and Christian basis have become dominant in the European Union,” Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said at an award ceremony in Brussels late on Wednesday.
“Nations, rather than the Soros empire or Brussels bureaucrats will win the controversy with liberals,” the prime minister said. The ideology of an open society will not gain ground in central Europe, the PM insisted: “we will relegate them where they belong, the garbage heap of history, just as we have expelled the communists.”
At the ceremony, the Hunyadi János Award of the Foundation For a Civic Hungary was given to Polish MEP Ryszard Antoni Legutko.
UPDATE
“It’s been a long time since I’ve seen such a good chance for forces with a national conservative, sovereigntist and Christian basis to become dominant in the European Union,” Viktor Orbán said at the award ceremony.
“It is nations, rather than the Soros empire or Brussels bureaucrats, that will win the debate with liberals,” the prime minister said. The ideology of an open society will not gain ground in central Europe, Orbán insisted: “we will relegate them where they belong, the garbage heap of history, just as we have expelled the communists.”
At the ceremony, the Hunyadi Janos Award of the For a Civic Hungary Foundation was given to Polish MEP Ryszard Antoni Legutko.
Referring to the Polish awardee, Orbán said Legutko had “studied the operations of the European Union and discovered critical signs of endeavours for political authoritarianism”. “He established that progressive liberals have an adversarial attitude towards anybody else with a different way of thinking … they have become like the communists and pose a real danger to freedom, pursuing their own utopistic nightmares,” Orbán said.
“Progressive liberals in the European Union are not interested in the European person … they only have an interest in their own ideology,” Orbán said. “If promoting those ideas costs dismantling European industry and agriculture, they will do so … if it involves erasing Europe’s culture through illegal migration, they will also do that, ” Orbán said. “But we do not promote ideas but represent European people,” he added.
The czechs are 80% agnostic/atheist. They are doing well. I dont see what is the relationship between religion an politics. Europe is not an religious controlled country like some Arabic one. But just like orban blames Soros about everything bad happening to the EU, Religion is another excuse for brainwashing people
Interesting data and projections to play around with:
https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/interactives/religious-composition-by-country-2010-2050/
The Springer link to a Journal of Religion and Health article makes for fascinating reading and appears to contradict in part Mr. Orbán´s claims – especially if we look into the future (see the above link as well).
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10943-022-01670-x
(Koscielniak, M., Bojanowska, A. & Gasiorowska, A. Religiosity Decline in Europe: Age, Generation, and the Mediating Role of Shifting Human Values. J Relig Health (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10943-022-01670-x)