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Yet Humanitarianism Is Not A Purely Christian Movement Any More Than It Is A Purely Humanist One

Moreover, Behind This Vague Tendency To Treat Religion As A Side Issue In Modern Life, There Exists A Strong Body Of Opinion That Is Actively Hostile To Christianity And That Regards The Destruction Of Positive Religion As Absolutely Necessary To The Advance Of Modern Culture

We Have Entered A New Phase Of Culture - We May Call It The Age Of The Cinema - In Which The Most Amazing Perfection Of Scientific Technique Is Being Devoted To Purely Ephemeral Objects, Without Any Consideration Of Their Ultimate Justification. It Seems As Though A New Society Was Arising Which Will Acknowledge No Hierarchy Of Values, No Intellectual Authority, And No Social Or Religious Tradition, But Which Will Live For The Moment In A Chaos Of Pure Sensation.

The Modern Dilemma Is Essentially A Spiritual One, And Every One Of Its Main Aspects, Moral, Political And Scientific, Brings Us Back To The Need Of A Religious Solution.

Man Is A Means And Not An End, And He Is A Means To Economic Or Political Ends Which Are Not Really Ends In Themselves But Means To Other Ends Which In Their Turn Are Means And So Ad Infinitum