The Lights are going out in Europe, Again...

Let's all hope it doesn't end the same way it did the last time!

A grand, gothic cathedral lit in eerie neon pink and blue. The stained-glass windows are blacked out. A DJ spins where the altar once stood. Empty pews line the dance floor. A single cross glows faintly in the background; half-lit, half-forgotten.

The altar still stands, but the neon lights pulse where the choir once sang. In Antwerp, a 15th-century church now sells cocktails named after saints. The DJ’s booth sits beneath a crucifix. On the wall where generations knelt to confess their sins, there’s now a sign that says “No cover charge before midnight.”

That, right there, is the obituary for Christian Europe.

According to Fortune, churches and cathedrals from Belgium to Italy are being gutted, repurposed, or abandoned altogether. Flanders — once a beating heart of Catholic art and faith — now boasts some of the most beautiful ruins on Earth. A 2018 Pew study showed that only ten percent of Belgians still attend church. The rest have traded their rosaries for retail therapy.

Europe thought it was liberating itself from dogma. Turns out, it just swapped religion for worship of the self. The new holy trinity: Instagram, climate hysteria, and cheap dopamine. You can’t build civilization on hashtags and oat milk.

Across France, Germany, and the UK, the moral architecture is collapsing as fast as the stone ones. Faith has been replaced by feelings, discipline by indulgence, and morality by marketing. The continent that once sent missionaries to the corners of the earth now can’t convince its own people to show up on Sunday. Into that vacuum, something else is rushing in; something stronger, hungrier, and utterly unafraid to believe in something.

In the last 30 years, France has built more mosques than churches. The Muslim population in Europe now hovers around five percent, but in cities like Paris and Stockholm, it’s much higher — and heavily concentrated. None of this is inherently sinister on its own. What is sinister is the cowardice of Europe’s political class, too paralyzed by guilt and multicultural slogans to enforce the law or defend the Jews — the continent’s original canaries in the coal mine.

The result? A Europe that preaches tolerance while tolerating the intolerant.

Rabbis in Brussels and Barcelona are warning their congregants to get out, “this place is lost.” Jews are hiding their Stars of David, taking mezuzahs off doorframes, telling their children not to speak Hebrew on the street. Synagogues look more like bunkers than houses of prayer. Jewish schools have security guards with submachine guns. These are not the hallmarks of “diversity.” These are the last rites of a civilization too frightened to protect its own. I can’t be the only one who sees the pattern of what’s going on there!

It’s hard to overstate the insanity of this reversal. For centuries, Jews helped build Europe’s banks, universities, and culture. Now they’re building exit plans. And the silence from European leaders? Deafening.

The bureaucrats tweet #NeverAgain while pretending not to notice it’s happening again — just with better branding. They hold candlelight vigils for “all victims of hate” because specificity makes them sweat. They equate synagogue bombings with mean tweets and think appeasement is diplomacy. These people aren’t leaders. They’re moral accountants balancing empathy like a budget line.

Meanwhile, in the streets, antisemitic mobs chant for intifada and governments shrug. Since 1972, more than 100,000 Jews have left France. That’s not migration. That’s flight.

And still, Europe pats itself on the back for its “progress.”

This is what happens when a civilization loses its compass. You strip out faith, discipline, and meaning — and you end up worshiping pleasure, ideology, and chaos. Hedonism fills the pews, self-loathing fills the airwaves, and antisemitism fills the silence. The West loves to say, “God is dead.” Maybe so. But something else moved into His room.

The lesson is older than the cathedrals they’re turning into bars: when the West forgets what it believes in, the Jew pays first.

Israel’s founders understood this. They saw it coming the first time. That’s why the Jewish state exists — because Europe always forgets until it’s too late. And it’s forgetting again.

When clouds gather this thick, it’s not a passing drizzle. It’s a new climate. Europe isn’t post-Christian — it’s pre-collapse. The old world is dancing on the graves of its own sanctuaries, convinced it’s evolved, unaware it’s unmoored.

Is Europe’s collapse just spiritual drift — or the early tremors of something darker? Are we watching history repeat itself in real time? Drop your thoughts below.

The West may have lost its faith. But the Jews can’t afford to lose their memory.