that there is freedom to dissent. The secular model has claimed to provide freedom but it cannot sustain that claim. It has been successful only insofar as it has been sustained by the remaining power of the Christian tradition; and as that tradition weakens, the secular society is unable to defend itself either against the rising religious fundamentalisms or against dissent into moral anarchy and hopelessness. The Christian gospel affirms that, not in spite of but because of our faith, we are required