Critics seemed even more threatened by Muggeridge’s passionate, unapologetic stands against the reigning ideologies of the modern west: communism, socialism and liberalism. In the 1950s, long before others came to the same conclusion, Muggeridge wrote that modern liberalism led to these more radical forms of government and therefore nurtured the decline of the west. He scorned this unquestioned political orthodoxy for its inquisitorial, totalitarian nature and, most offensive of all, traced the source of its rise, alongside modern crises, to the debunking of Church authority.
Thus, he thought that the twentieth century’s unprecedented death and destruction stemmed from the modern cult of scientific rationalism and its heretical belief that men could make of this world “a materialist promised land.”
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