Week 7--Barker Chapter 14: Cultural Politics and Cultural Policy

Is there a materialistic, anti-supernatural, nihilistic ideological hegemony that is now in place in late modernity, against which Christianity is “nonsensical or unthinkable”? Is this especially so in the post-Enlightenment west where more is expected from those of us to whom much has been given? In other words, are we as Christians under special scrutiny because our civilization has been thoroughly demythologized? I think so, and I think we are more “lenient” or accepting of the superstitions and non-rational aspects of other cultures. We tend to see the importance of religion and faith in everyone else except ourselves, because we no longer need the clumsy and outmoded apparatus of religion, we now have science!