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.
Se pensarmos no século XVIII, se pensarmos na vida intelectual antes do final do século XIX, tudo o que fazíamos, tudo  aquilo em que pensávamos, quer fosse o mundo físico, o mundo humano, o mundo natural, para além  do mundo humano ou da moral, tudo o que fazíamos estava enquadrado num cenário dum conjunto de pressupostos que eram religiosos:  os pressupostos cristãos.