Christian Thinking
Conflict with the secular mind

It needs no argument to prove that the supernaturally oriented view of the human situation proper to the Christian mind is remote indeed from the view nourished by secular culture. This is most clearly shown at the popular level…Ask yourself what kind of world is pictured there, Is it the world known vividly to the Christian mind? A world in which angel and demon are locked in conflict? A world packed full of sinners desperately dependent upon the mercy of God? A world amok with fundamentally powerless creatures, running hither and thither, foolishly imagining that they can do without God, and making an appalling mess of things as a result? A world voyaging like a little vessel across the sea of time, taking its passengers to their final home? A world fashioned by God, worried over by God, died for by God?
No. The secular mind has a totally conflicting view of our world and our situation in it. The world pictured by modern secularism and present to the current popular thinking is very different. It is a self-sufficient world. It is a world whose temporality is conclusive and final, whose comprehensiveness of experience embraces all that is and that ever will be. It is a world run by men, possessed by men, dominated by men, its course determined by men. It is a world in which men have got things taped.

Harry Blamires, The Christian Mind, How Should a Christian Think?, (Ann Arbor, MI: Servant Books, 1963), pp. 73.