"The tiny populations of Scandinavia can never hope to oppose aggression with physical force," wrote Novelist Evelyn Waugh after a visit to Scandinavia last year. "If they are to survive it must be through spiritual strength, and there alas . . . they are woefully enfeebled . . . They are secularized from infancy by the omnicompetent state, and as a result are unique in history in having no religion at all."
In Stockholm, the newspaper Stockholms-Tidningen recently conducted a debate between teen-agers on "Youth and the Church." Their comments seem to bear out...
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