A Very Christian England

For many years, Christianity was a soft target for critics of Western culture who interpreted its sexual codes as oppressive, its missionaries as agents of imperialism who destroyed indigenous cultures, and its institutions as corrupt. There was certainly evidence to support such claims and, in a West subject to an insatiable cultural Oedipus complex, the ritual slaying of the Christian God became a staple of the secular culture industry. That secularism had nothing of equivalent potency with which to replace him has in recent years come to the attention of a small but (currently) growing group of intellectuals and culture makers. Read Full Article »