Sacred Truths in a Profane World ~ The Imaginative Conservative

By Sir Roger Scruton

By and large the educated elites in the Western world today are without religious belief and often animated by what I call a “culture of repudiation,” keen to banish old ideas of the sacred from public life and to remake the institutions and structures of civil society so as to reflect their own liberated lifestyle. This attitude tends to go hand in hand with a rejection of traditional morality and the customs that sustain ordinary people in their daily lives… (essay by Sir Roger Scruton)

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