Chambers eloquently continued: "It is the vision of man's mind displacing God as the creative intelligence of the world. It is the vision of man's liberated mind, by the sole force of its rational intelligence, redirecting man's destiny and reorganizing man's life and the world. It is the vision of man, once more the central figure of the Creation, not because God made man in His image, but because man's mind makes him the most intelligent of the animals."

London journalist Richard Spencer put it well two years ago in The Telegraph: "Christianity lays down that a man's responsibility to his neighbour is personal, a matter for his individual conscience, while communism decrees that all duties are collective, to be enforced by the state. Communism and its blood-brother, fascism, have been responsible -- in Asia, Europe, Africa and South America -- for more human misery over the past century than any other systems of belief thought up by man."

A crucial difference between 490 and 90: "Christianity teaches that each of us is a moral being, responsible for our actions to our Maker, and individually bound to love our neighbors as ourselves."