If you think about the 18th century, say, if you think about intellectual life before the late 19th century, anything you did, anything you thought about, whether it was the physical world, the human world, the natural world apart from the human world, or morality, anything you did would have been framed against the background of a set of assumptions that were religious, Christian assumptions.
Si pensamos en el s. XVIII, en la vida intelectual anterior al s. XIX, todo lo que hacíamos, todo lo que pensábamos, ya fuera el mundo físico, el humano, el mundo natural separado del mundo humano, la moral, cualquier cosa que hiciéramos, hubiera estado enmarcada contra el fondo de una serie de supuestos religiosos: los supuestos cristianos.