A Decent Statement. And a Better One

The Danish newspaper that originally published the Mohammed cartoons recently published the following manifesto entitled A Manifesto Against Jihad:Indland Jyllands-Posten .
At first glance the statement, signed by 12 "thinkers", some of them ex-Muslims and some of them French "philosophers" (and it appears that any French streetsweeper is a philospher these days), looks pretty good.
But the Brussels Journal takes a closer look at the Manifesto and see a serious flaw -- Anti-Jihad Manifesto Misses the Point The Brussels Journal . Read the whole thing and pay particular attention to the statements that secularism has destroyed the religious roots of Europe and that Islam is filling the vacuum. The author of the Brussels Journal piece realizes that Europe was (up until some fifty years ago) Europe because of Christianity. ,,, The great English Baptist preacher of the nineteenth century, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, addressed the question of theocracy and the proper Christian response to the idea many years ago.
"We believe that the Baptists are the original Christians. We did not commence our existence at the Reformation, we were reformers before Luther or Calvin were born; we never came from the Church of Rome, for we were never in it, but we have an unbroken line up to the Apostles themselves. We have existed from the very days of Christ, and our principles, sometime veiled and forgotten, like a river which may travel underground for a little season, have always had honest and holy adherents. Persecuted alike by Romanization and Protestants of almost every sect, yet there has never existed a government holding Baptist principles which persecuted other; not I believe, any body of Baptists ever held it to be the right to put the consciences or other under the control of man. We have ever been ready to suffer, as out martyrologies will prove, but we are not ready to accept any help from the State, to prostitute the purity of the Bride of Christ to any alliance with the Government, and we will never make the church, although the Queen, the despot over the consciences of men."
If we our Mohammedan "brothers" would take a hint from Spurgeon they would do themselves a great favor. But perhaps because they want to impose their false religion on the world by force because they realize that it cannot, by any reasonable and half intelligent person, be accepted in the stead of Christianity, or even outright atheism. One's faith influences a society not by force, but by example. And that shows, sadly, the failing of contemporary Christianity in Europe. The Termites (modern theologians) infected the Christian church in Europe and have made "Christianity" weak and negligible instead of the muscular and confident faith and force that it once was in the Old World. The result has been a malaise and apathy that allows a false religion to become more vibrant than the religion that was once considered the European birthright, while the Europeans have become unable, not only to defend their way of life, but their ideals. Secularism is not something that something that people will fight to protect.
And finally, your faithful correspondent is aware that some readers may bring up the stupid statements made by Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell regarding a theocracy in the United States. Robertson is not a Baptist. I don't know what denomination Falwell belongs to, but Baptists, in the US have traditionally taken a hands off attitude toward government outside of voting.