Even the slogans of the secular Left — justice, equality, human rights — are cut flowers from Christian soil. They survive for a time, beautiful in form but severed from their roots. Appropriately, Os Guinness calls Western civilization a “cut flower civilization.”
You can enjoy its beauty for a while, but cut flowers die. The only way to keep them alive is to replant them in the soil of faith. No small job description.
We, the inheritors of Christendom, still breathe the fragrance of a garden planted two thousand years ago. Our laws, liberties, even our language of compassion — all of it blooms from the gospel of Jesus Christ. But when we remove the root, when we deny Christ’s dominion, the petals fall one by one.
Western civilization is dying not because it is old but because it is uprooted. The Church’s task is not to admire the vase but to return to the Garden — to water the roots, to guard the soil, and to fight for what remains alive.
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