Here’s the irony of the day.
In the former home of Mahatma Gandhi, we find the following quote, prominently posted:
“It is doubtful that the efforts of the Mahatma would have succeeded except that he was appealing to the conscience of a Christianized people”
— Bertrand Russell
So here we have, posted in the home of a Buddhist, the words of a militant atheist, extolling the virtues of Christianity.
So much for the argument that the judeo-christian ethic is not Central to Western culture. The constant claim that the judeo-christian ethic is an evil to be overcome is similarly bombed out of existence.
At the bottom line culture exists, and it matters.