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Media Monitoring

05 NOV

Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks: Europe Is Dying From Secularism

Ruth Gledill | The Times

The Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks of Aldgate, warned today that Europe was dying because the growth of secularism had made people too selfish to have children.
 
Its loss of a tolerant religious culture made it vulnerable to the advance of fundamentalism, he argued.
 
Comparing its decline to that of ancient Greece in the third century of the pre-Christian era, he said the answer lay in the rediscovery of the continent's Judeo-Christian religious roots.
 
Tolerant religion was “the only strong enough defence with some of the religiosity that is coming our way with the force of a hurricane", the Chief Rabbi said.
 
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