"The hate us 'cause they ain't us".
It boils down to this simple fact every time, and like idiots, we in the Christian nations of the West give the benefit of the doubt to every asshole who isn't us and all those people who aren't us do exactly what nature drives them to do. They take advantage of our levels of kindness that have long since ventured into the realms of stupidity.
My best guess is that you can run a nation to the benefit of one race and several religions or one religion and several races. But what you can't do is run a nation to the benefit of multiple religions AND races.
Racial homogeneity is a genetic driver we are born with and can learn to suppress. Religious homogeneity is a purely cultural driver that we are taught (though there is evidence that some religions flourish when coupled with certain genetics). My preference is for the latter since folk are born where they're born and at least religion is something you can choose for yourself. In any case I would sooner turn my back to a devout black Christian over a devout white muslim.
Christendom needs to find its balls and simply motivate all other religions to leave its lands and exclude themselves from influencing Christian nations, though I'm not holding my breath on that. When the founding fathers enshrined religious freedom they really failed to perceive a possible future where their nation would be stupid or corrupt enough to allow the presence and influence of rival religions to Christianity. If you asked them "don't you worry that jews might corner American finance and media, or that muslims might arrive in droves and terrorise your descendants" they would collapse in fits of laughter.
"Who would be so stupid as to admit those people here in the first place", they would ask?
"Who would tolerate their abuses without driving them back into the sea?"
A house divided cannot stand and we have welcomed that division for far too long. Inevitably there will be war. Whether that can be confined to a religious war or whether it spills towards race is still to be determined. But when the dust settles we can only hope that Christians have been hardened to the point where they enshrine their religion (or at least all variants of it) as the only acceptable practice in their lands and all subsequent lands they invade upon suffering from extra-national aggression.
Israel for the jews. Christendom for the Christians.
It boils down to this simple fact every time, and like idiots, we in the Christian nations of the West give the benefit of the doubt to every asshole who isn't us and all those people who aren't us do exactly what nature drives them to do. They take advantage of our levels of kindness that have long since ventured into the realms of stupidity.
My best guess is that you can run a nation to the benefit of one race and several religions or one religion and several races. But what you can't do is run a nation to the benefit of multiple religions AND races.
Racial homogeneity is a genetic driver we are born with and can learn to suppress. Religious homogeneity is a purely cultural driver that we are taught (though there is evidence that some religions flourish when coupled with certain genetics). My preference is for the latter since folk are born where they're born and at least religion is something you can choose for yourself. In any case I would sooner turn my back to a devout black Christian over a devout white muslim.
Christendom needs to find its balls and simply motivate all other religions to leave its lands and exclude themselves from influencing Christian nations, though I'm not holding my breath on that. When the founding fathers enshrined religious freedom they really failed to perceive a possible future where their nation would be stupid or corrupt enough to allow the presence and influence of rival religions to Christianity. If you asked them "don't you worry that jews might corner American finance and media, or that muslims might arrive in droves and terrorise your descendants" they would collapse in fits of laughter.
"Who would be so stupid as to admit those people here in the first place", they would ask?
"Who would tolerate their abuses without driving them back into the sea?"
A house divided cannot stand and we have welcomed that division for far too long. Inevitably there will be war. Whether that can be confined to a religious war or whether it spills towards race is still to be determined. But when the dust settles we can only hope that Christians have been hardened to the point where they enshrine their religion (or at least all variants of it) as the only acceptable practice in their lands and all subsequent lands they invade upon suffering from extra-national aggression.
Israel for the jews. Christendom for the Christians.
The public will judge a man by what he lifts, but those close to him will judge him by what he carries.