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Today's lecture is secularism versus Christ, the ethics of the day.

And the ethics in the West, or anywhere affected by the West, which is nearly everywhere,

is characterized, I would say, by a strict dichotomy.

On the one side, there's the ethics of secularism,

and on the other side, there's the ethics of Christ.

And these ethics to systems are, as it were, inimical to one another.

It's a fight to the death, and it's a question of how things will end.

The question of what is secularism is something that's been discussed by many scholars, and it's

fraught with difficulty because there are lots of different definitions that arise.

I think it would be helpful to begin by looking at the origins of the word secularism in its etymological context in ancient Rome.

And so I'll begin by quoting Virgil's fourth echelogue.

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