Everything else is postmodern chatter

Quote of the day:

Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of Western civilization. To this day, we have no other options . . . . We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter.  ~Jürgen Habermas

I read this in a 2007 article by Phillip Jenkins in Foreign Policy and had since forgetten about it, till it came up twice today in my daily stroll through the blogosphere. (HT: MOJ and Mere Comments.)