"The West was not naturally civilized. It was supernaturally civilized. Call it 'cricket', call it 'fair play', call it 'freedom', call it 'democracy', call it what you will, but it's roots are Christian and supernatural.
"There are two ways of destroying this civilisation. One is to drop a bomb on it, and even then if there are a few human roots remaining, it could grow again. And the other way is to attack its very roots, which is precisely the attack which is being mounted today by the agnostics, the materialists, the neo-intellectuals without anyone picking up a banner and marching to Aldermaston about it.
"This is the real danger, a danger far greater than any atomic bomb — that when our stockpiling is complete and technologists are two a penny, when our feet are tired of marching to Aldermaston, that then we suddenly find that the arts have been burrowing and there is nothing to defend. We find that we have the same materialism as Soviet Russia only in a more decadent form... the same complete destruction of family life and liberty. And all because we marched against the wrong people...
"This is the danger that we face today — that a Western civilization may be swallowed up in the atheistic Communism which it sets out to destroy... We pray to God that there will be something left to defend knowing that, if ever the day comes when there is nothing left to defend, we will have reached a Sodom that might well have deserved its atomic bomb.
Rt. Rev. John MURPHY
Bishop of Shrewsbury,
Quoted from The Universe, May 1st, 1959