On Personal Guilt and Collective Sin

The ‘mobile, shifting, hedonistic, technicist’ mentality that one encounters in the dominant metropolitan culture today ‘has no sense of personal guilt and yet possesses an excoriating sense of collective sin.’

–Charles Taylor citing David Martin, A Secular Age, pg 618

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