“Until recently most western nations saw themselves as a continuation of medieval Christendom — that is as social and political entities with corporate Christian commitments and ideals for living that, at least in intention, were controlled and shaped by Scripture. But now this ideal is being displaced by that of the secular state — a community that is officially without any religion or ideology save that of maximizing freedom for citizens to pursue as individuals whatever interests, religious or otherwise, they happen to have. . . . When God’s values are ignored, and the only community ideal is permissiveness, where will moral capital come from once the Christian legacy is spent?” (J.I. Packer, Keeping the Ten Commandments, 120 & 121).