“A mental attitude thus grew up in which the great redemptive act of Calvary was presumed to have no significance for the social order. The soul became an unimportant suburb of the city called Business. If politics and economics did not interfere with religion, they argued, why should religion interfere with politics and economics? Religious liberty was thus purchased on the understanding that it would refrain from the secular order. Religion became a circumscribed area of life, insulated from all contact with the secular, and any attempt on the part of religion to inject ethical and moral consideration into business was looked upon as meddling, as if the virtue of justice were something to be preached in a pulpit on Sunday, but not to be practiced in a factory on Monday. The world was willing to admit that religion could tell man about his final end, but it refused to allow religion to tell him the right means to attain that end. … The result of this separation of religion and public affairs was to drive religion into a position of increasing irrelevance to public affairs. “I don’t bother the Church, why should the Church bother me” became the fallacious catchword to justify the divorce of two things which were meant to be as inseparable as head and body. … In like manner, leaving religion out of the social order is not a negation of something indifferent; it is a privation of something necessary. … A religion that does not interfere with the secular order will discover that the secular order will not refrain from interfering with it, just as a mother who will not refrain from correcting her disobedient children will soon have her children correcting her.”~ Fulton J. Sheen, Freedom Under God, The Relevance of Religion (1940/2013) Page 1-4, Page 4.
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