Quote:This principle of 'here' and its consequent material pursuit is the reason that they do not reproduce themselves sufficiently and this naturally causes their decline in Europe and in America. Hindus are also afflicted by materialism thanks to their imbibing secular ideas from the Christians and this will tell on their population growth.
This is wrong. I don't know how it is with Dutch catholics in this generation, but until the 2nd-to-last gen, catholics in Europe used to multiply to retake the (especially uncatholic) regions for the "True" - i.e. catholic - christendom. Even in NL, when the Protestants had started having 2 kids max per couple, the many catholic families I knew had already had about 4 or 5. Even in my gen, some were still the products of 5-children families.
Of course, secularisation of that generation and subsequent ones then took over, and with the loss of religion, they would also have let go of the "breed to spite the protestants" programme. So I think that if these were to have children, they would be about 2.0.
[Now the various AmeriKKKan christian cultists have mounted an attack on even the Dutch, Scandinavians and Germans (South America and Australasia): because christianism can't stand vacancies. Besides, the even-lamer-than-established-christianisms AmeriKKKan christocults (pentacostals, southern baptists, 7th day adventists, morons I mean mormons, etc) think that catholicism - as well as anglican and several other protestantisms - are all going to hell (they think catholicism is especially EviL).
In fact, with my own eyes I have seen a NW European ex-atheist converted into a looney speaking-in-tongues american christocultist. But Europe's dechristianisation is still slightly unstable. And I personally know of non-American European-origin people - in their early twenties - who've started following American christocults and are now breeding to have 10+ kids. (I kid you not. And their mothers had as many, their cousins have as many and they are themselves aiming for the same. They're aiming to retake de-christianising nations for jeebus. Oh, and they do arranged marriages: meeting potential spouses from their church for a handful of - chaperonned - dates before they have to decide if this is "the one". All this aggressive multiplying and arranged marriages are ordained by their church.) It's very creepy.]
Anyway, from what I recall reading, the 2/3 Protestant Germany was - until nazi rule - worried about a catholic demographic takeover: the pope did instruct his own sheep to multiply for him, but that was superfluous when the catholics were themselves on fire to reclaim Europe for the true christendom. Then the great blessing for christendom in Germany came in the form of the catholic Hitler who refused to have such factionalism and made a lot of effort into getting his bickering christian sheep to put all their protestant suspicion and catholic scheming behind them, and to unite for the sake of a glorious Arisch christian Germany. (There are direct references in his writings - and in that of his mouthpieces - to the serious discord that existed between the two major Churches of Germany.) He even got the Popes on his team, and to relent and stop seeing protestantism as its major enemy. But that was only in W Europe of course (Arisch Europe. Slavic people weren't considered remotely Arisch yet then. And would not be until for some decades after nazism.)
Of course, in the E of the continent and in the Slavic realm beyond, there existed orthodoxy, which catholicism would not forgive (and which catholicism had tried its brutal best to genocide during the nazi era).
More recently - some years after 2000 - the eastern orthodoxy appears to have been misled I mean forgiven catholicism and joined hands - at least temporarily - to fight the dechristianisation of Europe. This happened but a few years after Greek, Romanian and Ukrainian orthodox called the visiting Pope and his religion the devil and satanism respectively. I think I read that, in a more recent year still, the Greek orthodox archbishop thereafter had an amiable chat with his papal infallibleness - perhaps he accepted the recently-invented infallibility rule? and stopped calling it the bishop of rome and recognised it as the vicar of christ at last - No??? But I think they were united on at least one thing: preventing dechristianisation (and even heathenisation) of Europe. Still, some Greek monks were Not Happy with all this fraternising with the Great Nemesis of eastern orthodoxy: catholicism, the Great Inculturating Terror. Especially since everyone - except those with a very short memory - knows that catholicism cannot be trusted. And that it has always hated orthodoxy for correctly refusing catholicism's claim to a greater authenticity.