rules, or an ever-changing set of rules, but they won’t allow the rules to arise from within a Judeo-Christian framework.8 Thus many of the West’s recent cultural works are agents of social decay, serving to transgress, debunk, and otherwise subvert the very sacred order that gave the culture health and strength through the ages. According to Rieff, the therapeutic and atheistic effort to undermine social order will necessarily fail. Humanity’s instinctual religiosity “simply cannot be killed.… We