G.K. Chesterton’s saying “The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting; it has been found difficult and left untried,” is both familiar true of every age. But perhaps in the twenty-first century, as at other times of profound transition in history, we are faced with the extra imperative to try it. In our time, it is less likely that we can just drift along without being brought to a decision point. So do I act like a Catholic or sit on the fence?
The changeover from secularism cum paganism (“An artisan made it, it is no god at all.” – Hosea) that was in some kind of balance with real religious practice to an exclusive secularism with the force of law is something that has been a long time coming. The Marxists did this in Russia and China. We did not learn from their history. The socialists here have moved along a similar path step by step.
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