Prediction and Omen       
    Part 2 of 2

        Dennis Prager quotes German poet Heinrich Heine (1834): "Should...the cross be shattered, the frenzied madness of the ancient warriors...will once more burst into flame. This talisman (the cross) is fragile, and the day will come when it will collapse. Then...a play will be performed in Germany which will make the French Revolution look like an innocent idyll."

   The "play" opened 100 years later.

   Prager: Nazism and communism were born in the West, but they were anti-Western. As for Muslims welcomed into Western culture, he writes, "Islam has not been nearly as kind, tolerant, open, medically or scientifically innovative or intellectually curious as Western civilization." 

   So, why are secular intellectuals like Obama and Clinton...and Islamists now joined at the hip? 

   "European Christians persecuted European Jews," Prager reminds us. But, "It took secular Nazism to produce Auschwitz, and communism to produce the gulag, the Chinese Cultural Revolution and the Ukrainian and Cambodian genocides." 

   He adds, "the left's belief that secular reason can replace God and the Bible (is) completely wrong. The alleged citadels of secular reason - the universities - are the most irrational and morally confused institutions in the West." 

   He concludes, whatever or whoever set fire to Notre Dame Cathedral, "what matters is the omen: Europe is burning." 

   See you in church?

       Jimmy