[Serious] The Humanities

[possibletarian]

It usually pays to look for the subtext or underlying assumptions in these non-religious works. Romance literature, while not explicitly Christian, would have been impossible in a non-Christian context. 

How so ?

I hope that such a framework is possible someday. Though individuals today may or may not value those things, the messages we get through the media are often very different. I also suspect that things like "empathy" are too abstract to stick with people. Such things need embodiment in a story or larger framework to have force.

Again, how so ?