Can a civilization hold together if man abandons his faith in God?
Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.
The soul of a civilization is its religion, and it dies with its faith.
The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.
When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.
Liberty is a luxury of security; the free individual is a product and a mark of civilization.