Just Curious.
Have you ever read "The book of the dun cow"? In it's original form it was part of a collection written by Irish monks around 1160 AD. When I read it as a teen I saw it as a fantasy book but looking back I see some really good messages in the story.
Personally I see some interesting comparisons between the barnyard in the book and modern America. Some of the Animals saw the evil and wanted to destroy it, others only wanted to fend it off. Other Animals wanted to build a wall to keep the evil away. Some wanted to negotiate with the evil and others wanted to ignore it.
The barnyard animals ended up going to war against each other as the evil continued to grow and very nearly lost the true war against evil.
My memory has dimmed considerably in the 25 years since I read the book but it really stuck with me in some ways.
Chesterton inspired Lewis, who had become increasingly agnostic after reading the works of Nitche.
Chesterton wrote a great little parable (or did he just cite it?) about walls. Do you remember the one to which I refer?