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Is the Culture of Death Committing Suicide? by Joseph Pearce – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

Is the Culture of Death Committing Suicide? by Joseph Pearce

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Giotto di Bondone, “Massacre of the Innocents,” ca. 1304-1306, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua, Italy (photo: Public Domain)

By Joseph Pearce, National Catholic Register,

Joseph Pearce is Visiting Professor of Literature at Ave Maria University and a Visiting Fellow of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts (Merrimack, New Hampshire). The author of more than 30 books, he is editor of the St. Austin Review, series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions, senior instructor with Homeschool Connections, and senior contributor at the Imaginative Conservative and Crisis Magazine. His personal website is jpearce.co.

From Iceland to the wider West, falling birthrates and the elimination of the ‘unfit’ reveal a civilization undermining its own future.

Joseph PearceIf you give the devil enough rope, he’ll hang himself. This is true but it’s not the whole truth. The problem is that he’ll hang you first. The devil hangs his own disciples, which is tragic enough, but he also hangs the innocent. These timeless cautionary thoughts should be kept in mind as we survey the way that the culture of death in the decadent West is collapsing in its own hedonistic too-muchness.

Let’s take the example of Iceland as a microcosmic representative of what is happening in many of the larger countries of Europe. Like most countries in the collapsing, decadent Europe, Icelanders are following the Nazis through the practice of eugenics to exterminate the “unfit.”  ….

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