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East and Central Europe – the best hope for the future of Europe?In this paper I want to express my opinion about George Weigel point of view that Central and East Europe is the best hope for the future of Europe.
In one point of view I have to agree with G. Weigel, that “history is driven, over the long haul, by culture – by what men and women honor, cherish, and worship; by what societies deem to be true and good and noble; by the expressions they give to those convictions in language, literature, and the arts; by what individuals and societies are willing to stake their lives on” ( “The Cube and the Cathedral”; p. 30).
Central and East Europe has very difficult history. The last centenary, yet within fifty years, Europe produced two world wars, three totalitarian systems, a Cold War that threatened global disaster, oceans of blood, mountains of corpses, the Gulag and Auschwitz. And all of that has made a big influence to humans culture, beliefs,
In their bellicose past Europeans has lost they belief in God. As G. Weigel writes in his book “The Cube and The Cathedral” (p.19), many Europeans (especially high culture) are “Chrisophobic”. Europeans no longer pray and believe in God. They think that Christianity and Human rights contradict each other. So In my point of view, it is gross problem in Europe. And I do not agree with George Weigel, that Easter Europe countrie “could reenergize the often somnambulant local churches of Western Europe” (“The Cube and The Cathedral”; p.150). By G. Weigel, "Those who insisted that there be no overt recognition that Christianity played a decisive role in the formation of European civilization did not do so in the name of tolerance, despite their claims to the contrary. They did so because they are committed to the proposition that there can be politics without God." But in our days, people in Lithuania and in other East Europe countries, has been going to church and save belief in God less than in West Europe ( for example in Great Britain or in Spain, where people are much believer).
"Common wisdom has it that alcoholics outnumber practicing Christians and that more Czechs believe in UFOs than believe in God — and common wisdom may be correct," wrote Nate and Leah Seppanen Anderson in a Prague Post commentary; he's a freelance writer, and she's a political science professor at Wheaton College in Illinois and a specialist in Czech politics and society. And in my point of view, it is the same :problem“ in Lithuania too and in more East Europe countries.
Second point, of my view, is the number of suicides in Central Europe and especially in East Europe. For example
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