THE NEW MORALITY (1964/1967) by ARNOLD LUNN and GARTH LEAN

(note: this book is on the lean side at places, but still much notable)

'the truth is that civilization collapses when the essential reverence for absolute values which religion gives disappears. rome had discovered that in the days of her decadence. men live on the accumulated Faith of the past as well as on its accumulated self-discipline. overthrow these and nothing seems missing at first, a few sexual taboos, a little of the prejudice of a Cato, a few rhapsodical impulses - comprehensible, we are told, only in the literature of folk lore - these have gone by the board. but something has gone as well, the mortar which held society together, the integrity (def - integer: undivided, whole + -ity: state) of the individual soul; then the rats come out of their holes and begin burrowing under the foundations and there is nothing to withstand them'.  dr monk gibbon in Mount Ida

foreword - since 1964, the attack on christian faith and morals has been pursued with increasing confidence and ever increasing success by the secular New Moralists who are frankly out to destroy both.

4  'though pervaded by a vague humanitarianism in public, he (philip toynbee) writes, in private i was selfishness, possessive and predatory. when they conflicted I was never prepared to sacrifice my interest to those of other people, nor does my memory embrace many occasions on which i seriously put myself out to aid my fellows. it does however remind me that when occasion arose I could be as malicious and cruel as the best - or rather the worst -of them (Good and Evil, p.80). (note: this reads exactly like my inner experience, though covered by the dross of fools gold of being 'religious, good, 'nice' outside.)
'i have pointed out, wrote mattew arnold, that THE REAL UPSHOT OF THE TEACHING OF JESUS WAS THIS: 'IF EVER O-N-E WOULD MEND O-N-E, WE SHOULD HAVE A NEW WORLD' (note: caps mine).
5  (Letters II, 30)  many people have found compensation for their failure to mend hemselves in the support of movements to reform the world.
...my conversion from agnosticism to christianity owes more to salmon's Introduction to the New Testament than to any other single influence and there are not many christian apologists whom i have read with greater profit than professor C.S. Lewis. the reprint of 3 of his broadcast talks, Mere Christianity, anticipates many of the points made by the bishop of woolwich and the cambridge divines whose writings are discussed in this book. the bishop, for instance, might ponder the application fo the remark on page 43 of Mere Christianity: 'such people put up a version of christianity suitable for a child of 6, and make that the object of their attack'. after reading the clotted confusion of the New Moralists, it was more than refreshing to read Professor Lewis's chapter on Sexual Morality in that book.