Response to the Post-Christian West

Christians can respond in a principled way, speaking and acting from Christian truth, to address the crises of the post-Christian West. These crises involve both the loss of their own religious freedom to a humanistic understanding of civil rights, and the negative consequences to the wider society of state policy and social practice keyed to personal gratification rather than personal responsibility. This clear message was conveyed at a presentation on â??Do Religious Freedom and Human Rights Clash in Todayâ??s Democracies,â? sponsored by the Acton Institute and the Transatlantic Christian Council, a newly formed alliance to promote Christian and conservative values in the West, at the Library Congress on September 11.