Pray-pray-pray

Jorg - those soldiers were apparently in want of something to hang onto. Some had rosaries, some had a rabbit foot and others pictures of their loved ones. If you faced death, anything that can calm you down, and provides courage to face reality, should be appreciated. To dismiss them as non-freethinking is very unkind, to say the least. Besides, as a military person, especially in combat, one follows orders, without thought.

Great Jorg! - it has also devolved into a drug mecca, an onslaught of child molestation, femicide, sarcasm, and general superficiality. Yet, they want to celebrate Christmas and Easter, but do not know the original meaning of these holidays. If you call that progress, I call it nihilism. The Netherlands is my native country but I thank God on my bare knees everyday that I moved here. The Dutch, like most Scandinavians, do not stand for anything, except hedonism and materialism. Can you at least explain why Islam is making such inroads over there? It is filling a need that appears dormant.

Dirk: So, which one(s) of the roughly 12000 fantasy god figures dreamed up by mankind through the ages, do you sacrifice your knees for? I wouldn’t even do it for my own Nordic gods, Tor and Odin, despite how responsible those 2 are for thunder and lightning.

Dirk: Perhaps the Dutch authorities have been too naïve, like so many other countries not realizing what a threat the Muslim movement can be. The Muslim strategy seems to be to reproduce faster than the natives, and thus with time, becoming an overwhelming force. Yet, The Netherlands, along with the Scandinavian countries, are the best educated and the natives the least infested with religion, - something we both should be proud of.

And, BTW, “Christmas” is an English misnomer, since the original, the equivalent of Yuletide, had absolutely, nothing to do with religious superstition. Scandinavia still celebrates the original Yuletide.