Date Posted:09:03:44 12/26/04 Sun Author: Shane Subject: Re: secularism is killing the christianity of Europe? In reply to:
Tony Lang
's message, "Re: secularism is killing the christianity of Europe?" on 05:45:26 12/19/04 Sun
Euro's often forget that Americans are among the most generous in the world, giving billions of dollars to domestic and international charities. For all the Euro's talk about 'international' community, its the Americans who continually give.
>I would like to change the word secularism to
>consumerism.
>I am not sure what secularism really means here. The
>objective of consumerism is the promotion of comfort
>and convenience. When this happens, moral values
>decline.
>When I worked in The USA in 1994 I saw consumerism the
>like of which I had never seen before. Of course it
>would be wrong to say that consumerism is an American
>invention but from my experience they appear to be
>market leaders.
