"The church is safe from vicious persecution at the hands of the secularist,
as educated people have finished with stake-burning, circuses, and torture racks.
No martyr's blood is shed in the secular west.
So long as the church knows her place and remains quietly at peace
on her modern reservation.
Let the babes pray and sing and read their Bibles, continuing steadfastly
in their intellectual retardation; the church's extinction will not come by sword
or pillory, but by the quiet death of irrelevance.
But let the church step off the reservation, let her penetrate once more
the culture of the day and the . . . face of secularism will change from a benign
smile to a savage snarl."
-R.C. Sproul, John Gerstner, and Arthur Lindsley
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