…it would be a wistful and culpable blindness for us to refuse to recognize how culturally arid and spiritually impoverished our society has become – which any unprejudiced survey of the artifacts of popular culture will effortlessly confirm. How, after all, should Christians regard the present age when, in America alone, more than 40 million babies have been killed in the womb since the Supreme Court invented the right to abortion, and when there are many who see these deaths not just as tragic necessities, but as blameless consequences of a moral social triumph? When the Carthaginians were prevailed upon to cease sacrificing their babies, at least the place vacated by Baal reminded them that they should seek the divine above themselves; but our culture offers up its babies to “my” freedom of choice, to “me.” Surely a Christian must doubt that any other society’s moral vision has ever shown itself to be more degenerate
From David Bentley Hart - (”Christ and Nothing (No Other God)” in In the Aftermath: Provocations and Laments, pp. 16-17) HT: Theology Forum
