Vishal Mangalwadi, noted by Christianity Today as "India's foremost Christian intellectual," provides this sobering assessment about cultures and nations:
"What happens to a culture that is clueless about what is true, good, and just?
Pilate answered that question when he declared: 'I have the power to crucify you or set you free.'

When we believe truth is unknowable, we rob it of any authority.

What is left is brute power wielding arbitrary force.

Whether a person or an ethnic minority is guilty or innocent becomes irrelevant.

His or her right to life depends exclusively on the whims of whoever has power.

Any nation that refuses to live under truth condemns itself to liv under sinful man." (from The Book That Made Your World: How the Bible Created the Soul of Western Civilization, page 392).