Full Idea
For Christians, it is because they occur in history that the lives of humans have a meaning that the lives of other animals do not. ..If we truly leave Christianity behind, we must give up the idea that human history has a meaning.
Gist of Idea
Without Christianity we lose the idea that human history has a meaning
Source
John Gray (Straw Dogs [2002], 2.3)
Book Reference
Gray,John: 'Straw Dogs' [Granta 2002], p.47
A Reaction
Interesting. Compare the dispute between 'whig' and 'tory' historians, the former of whom believe that history is going somewhere.