Echoes in Eternity

The decline of "religion" is no doubt a bad thing for the "World." By it all the things that made England a fairly happy country, are, I suppose, endangered: the comparative purity of her public life, the comparative humanity of her police, and the possibility of some mutual respect and kindness between political opponents. But I am not clear that it makes conversions to Christianity rarer or more difficult: rather the reverse. It makes the choice more unescapable. When the Round Table is broken every man must follow either Galahad or Mordred: middle things are gone. - C.S. Lewis