And The Same Could Soon Be Said About The U. S.

Europe has lost its ability to employ reason against reason’s enemies because it has lost the authority for reason, that is, its faith. It is left with nothing but the tattered remains of a belief in the rationality of humans. But reason alone, without faith, cannot deal with today’s clash of civilizations.

—Chuck Colson, The Faith (Zondervan, 2008), p. 222.