Barbarism comes when we lack the ability for reasonable conversation. Religious pluralism is experienced as intellectual, profoundly in the realization that we only minimally share the same history. The split between Protestant and Catholic leads them to distrust each other's intentions. Secularist is also at war and trusts none of the above players. Utopianism is a Christian heresy.
Civil society is truly a spectacle for the world.
Sectarian vocation needs to be allowed to form a social ethic of the cross. This is not against culture per se but may mean doing so in an unwilling culture.