Temple Offering: A Greek Tragedy

♪ I feel You, Your sun it shines. ♪ -- Depeche Mode, Songs of Faith and Devotion

NEW YORK -- In Pat Buchanan's The Death of the West, an increasingly de-Christianized Europe is marching toward extinction. A correct assessment it may be, but perhaps the downhill trip of Western civilization already began centuries ago, when the Greeks’ love of logic and reason shifted to piety and devotion, and their Homeric Pantheon—not lacking in humanity and humanness—surrendered to the Hebrew God.