There is a portion of the divine in each man and woman, a sacred precinct within us. Man as a created being is the key idea of the free society, and it is a uniquely Christian idea. But these matters, important as they are, constitute but a province in the total kingdom which is God's. The Bible was a textbook of liberty for our forebears, and may become so again, in our own country as well as among the people of the formerly Communist nations whose hunger for religion has been suppressed for so long. The Bible has a lot to say about the rules for living our lives well and in peace with our neighbors, but it never promises salvation by human contrivances.
Ultimate felicity is for another dimension of reality.
It is the will, not the power, that is lacking. Before, in times of crisis, the Church has always provided a springboard for the emergence of a self-renewing Remnant who affected their times with a power out of all proportion to their numbers. It can happen again, with us. He is a member of the Acton Institute Advisory Board. Religion and Liberty Acton Institute 161 Ottawa NW, Ste.