The fashion and habit of self-censorship
The confusion of the present time can be seen in a number of ways, but most importantly in the silences and suppressions that people impose on themselve,s the arguments that they will not touch, the fear of controversy - because in contemporary parliance "controversial" means not "to be debated" but "intolerable and shameful". And that alone tells you where we are and what the evil is.
This happened to me a couple of years ago. A man gave an account of the martyrdom of St.Mazimilian Kolbe, a priest who is among the most glorious and proud ornaments of my Church, and whose path is recognizably and uniquely a Christian martyrdom. Yet he complains to me when I comment it with St.Patrick's words to his converts, murdered by Coroticus: "...baptized as believers, you have abandoned the world for Paradise. I see you: you have begun the journey to where there will be no night nor grieving nor further death, but you shall exult like calves loosed from the stocks, and you shall tread over evil men, and they shall be like ashes under your feet; so you shall reign with the apostles, and the prophets, and the martyrs... Like clouds or smoke scattered by the wind, so the sinners and deceivers shall perish from the face of God: but the just shall feast for ever and ever with Christ, shall judge nations and rule over unjust kings for all the world to come. Amen!" (This passage that was familiar to me because I had translated it for my research into Dark Age Britain; any Christian could have quoted others out of a whole literature.) Apparently it is sectarian and unpleasant to praise a Christian martyr in Christian terms. And the saddest thing is that I know exactly where this person is coming from and why his protest is understandable.