Post-Christian Societies

Here is an excerpt from a fascinating interview of Peter Hitchens. His thoughts on the common grace of having Christians in a society is dead on.

Laura Perrins: Many commentators believe that the destruction of the Christian faith will lead to a kinder, more moral, and charitable society.

Peter Hitches: Do they? I think they hope it will lead to a society in which fewer demands are made on them, which is rather different. But this is the difference which a belief in eternity makes. If we exist in eternity, then what we do here matters somewhere else, and at some other time, and the immediate consequences of our actions aren’t the most important things about them.  It might lead to more public acts of self-publicising ‘goodness’, but this is the problem of all Godless ethical systems. They rely on the appearance of goodness rather than on the inner heart seen only by God, and anyone who has attended a school or worked in an office will know that people are not always exactly as they seem to be.

Read the rest of the interview HERE.

Grace and Peace