Epicureans, sceptics and cynics, oh my!

And ostentation, avarice and laziness too?
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Britain's Chief Rabbi on the decline and fall of Europe...
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Rabbi Jonathan Sacks:  "Europe, at least the indigenous population of Europe, is dying, exactly as Polybius said about ancient Greece in the third pre-Christian century. The century that is intellectually the closest to our own - the century of the sceptics and the epicureans and the cynics."
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Quoting Polybius he stated: "The fact is, that the people of Hellas had entered upon the false path of ostentation, avarice and laziness, and were therefore becoming unwilling to marry, or if they did marry, to bring up the children born to them; the majority were only willing to bring up at most one or two."
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Rabbi Sacks did point out however:
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"...that sincere religious belief is able to overcome the cultural impediments to having children. "Wherever you turn today anywhere in the world, and whether you look at the Jewish or Christian or Muslim communities, you will find the more religious the community, the larger, on average, are its families," he said." - Source
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Thank God we are not like that in the United States....  ;D