"It is true that we have not yet torn down all the crosses, nor replaced our religious ceremonies with ancient spectacles of prostitution. We have not completely installed latrines and public urinals in cathedrals transformed into into gambling dens or coffee-houses. Obviously, we don’t tie enough priests to boats and drag them through rivers, or leave young pious girls in the gentle maternal care of the matrons of prostitute houses. We don’t rot childhood early enough, we don’t trample a big enough number of poor people, we still don’t use the father’s face as a spit bucket or as a boot-scraper…no doubt. But all these things are upon us and can be considered as having already arrived, since they arrive just like the rising sea tide and nothing is capable of holding it back." Was Leon Bloy right?