The Graybrook Vision: Culture at the Crossroads

 

There is one view "that a society has ceased to be Christian when religious practices have been abandoned, when behavior ceases to be regulated by reference to Christian principle.... The other view, which is less readily apprehended, is that a society has not ceased to be Christian until it has become positively something else. It is my contention that we have today a culture which is mainly negative, but which, so far as it is positive, it is still Christian. I do not think it can remain negative ... and I believe that the choice before us is between the formation of a new Christian culture, and the acceptance of a pagan one. "

T.S. Eliot, "The Idea of a Christian Society"