The blasphemer is not the one who disbelieves in God, but the one who is angry at himself for believing too much – the one who seeks to free himself from the divinity, and who shouts and snarls in his helplessness. The god who is a real presence at the Christian altar, is also an imaginary presence in Christian culture. Many who never take communion in fact, take communion in imagination. Such is the fate of almost every intelligent person who is brought into the ambit of Western art. Those whose task it is to teach the aesthetic legacy of Christian belief will inevitably feel drawn, not merely to its artistic achievement, but to the common culture which speaks through them, and which is no longer ours