Letter to The Editor - We need to revive our Christian sacred tradition

To The Australian          Stephen Chavura ably shows why the Left is so hostile to intellectual freedom ("Free speech is Morrison's chance to lead like Menzies", 31/8) and his advice to our new PM to launch a campaign in its defence is thoroughly sensible. The question needs to be asked, however, as to why the Left has become so powerful in our land despite its manifest errors, contradictions and unworkable policies. A vacuum must have occurred into which this torrent has poured; or, to use biblical language, in removing one devil we have inadvertently made space for seven new and worse devils to take over. Western European civilization successfully threw off the shackles of ecclesiastical obscurantism and the age of science swept in. The resultant vacuum manifests as the loss of influence and authority of the Church. Many human beings have to have a cause to fight for. Modern secular crusades was the answer.
     This indicates that it won't be enough for the West to bring back more freedom of speech. We need to revive our Christian sacred tradition so that it can provide worthy causes for activists to espouse. In essence, this means a realization that a profound initiatory tradition expressing itself through symbolism was perverted seventeen or more centuries ago into an absurd belief system and preposterous theology about the 'saving sacrifice' of Jesus.
  Nigel Jackson, Belgrave, Vic