The Birth and near death of Christian Culture
by Gavin Ashenden:
I have been reading two authors who have helped me understand something of the birth and coming death of Europe.
The first is Prof Robert Tombs who wrote what became ‘the history book of the year” – ‘The English and their History.’
He tells the story of England as part of the British Isles and explains how this rich Christian culture took birth and flourished. Along the way he confronts some of the misunderstandings of the story that we got taught as bad history. He also points out how fortunate the English were to live behind a wall of water that protected them from the more turbulent and violent history of Europe which experienced much greater devastation.
The second book looked at the death of Europe, and also of England. He observes that the wall of water has been removed as a protective barrier.
Douglas Murray has just published ‘The Strange Death of Europe – Immigration, Identity and Islam’. He also confronts the untrue narratives that our cultural masters have been telling us. He examines how falling birth rates, massive immigration and kind of cultivated self-distrust and self-hatred have led to Europe committing social and cultural suicide.
I remember very well the arguments in favour of mass immigration being based on rhetoric that the British Isles had always been a place of immigration and this was nothing new, and to object to it was ‘racist’. The real truth is in the numbers. Through most of history immigration when the small waves took place, Romans, Vikings, Normans, Huguenots, took were about 0.5-1% of the population. And genetically, all these people were close genetic cousins. Society hung together.
In 2011 the percentage of people born outside England who had arrived as immigrants was over 12%. It’s the scale that is the problem, not the principle. Also they weren’t cousins -and they didn’t assimilate.
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