This is a podcast from the archives of the BBC Reith Lectures.

This lecture in the series Change in British Society, given by A.H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H. H.

When the political and social ideas used by Christians today are identified and analysed,

it becomes clear that they're derived from the secular values of the time.

This has, of course, always been the case.

The main difference between the present experience of Christian adaptation and past ones is that the culture of the modern world is becoming frankly secular.

At first sight, it may seem as if this is not universally true,

that in the developing world especially,

large deposits of authentic religious experience still survive in enough strength to dilute

the secularism which is imported to those countries through liberal capitalist development

or Marxist ideology. But in reality, the force and pervasiveness of the secularised ideals of

the advanced nations is rapidly producing of the secularised ideals of the advanced nations

is rapidly producing a unified and worldwide set of responses to political and social questions.

The traffic in ideas and the speed of communications,

combined with the modern inclination to regard political morality as the centre of all morality,

is creating a world which is judged by single universal tests.

Thus, once men were prepared to consider foreign regimes,

which they did not find to their taste,

as the inevitable consequence of alien culture and social organisation.

It was the way of things.

Today, men demand that their own sense of political virtue be actually applied everywhere,

and they are prepared to countenance forceful methods to bring their ideals into existence.

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