Between Christ and the Secular World

I have been on a low lately. The world gets to me. I am confronted with different philosophies and lifestyles in school and at home. And I find these differences incompatable with the Christian worldview.
A permanent flow of ideas pushes to penetrate my worldview. Sometimes I am unable to deal with the inconsistencies and I lose myself in a lonely place somewhere in between Christ and and the secular World.

I have been reading Nancy Pearcey's 'Total Truth'. Pearcey argues that religious life should not be confined to the private sphere. Rather Christians are called to live out Christ in politics, science, business and every other professional field.

As a political scientist I am especially concerned with politics and science, disciplines which are practically owned by secular professionals.
To be a Christian politician in the Netherlands, is considered somewhat backward. Moreover, he should submit to the principle of separation of Church and state. The 'enlighted' majority of the country tells us that politics should be void of any religion.

In a recent interview the leader of the Dutch Christian Union Party, André Rouvoet, said that he is often asked to account for the fact that he is a Christian politician. Even worse, journalists hold him accountable for the medieval crusades!
Rouvoet remarked that liberal politicians are never asked about the government supported terrorism (terreur)in the aftermath of French Revolution, or, the many guillotine beheadings.
This particularism, one might even say discrimination, is a clear evidence that secular society has a blindspot.

Equality, democracy and liberty, the enlightened extremists' trinity is used to restrain other people's thoughts, while maintaining the mask of tolerance. However, extremist enlightenment is intolerant by nature.
In the Western world and especially in the United States, we have witnessed a strong anti-Communist sentiment (for good reasons). However, now that the Cold War is over, we stand almost critiqueless towards the neo-liberal ideology which dominates our economies and our politics. We should not forget the fact that neo-liberalism (and capitalism), communism and pragmatism are all rooted in the same unholy enlightened trinity.
The majority pretends to know what is by and large true: neo-liberalist democracy, they hold that there is no alternative, this is objective and reasonable.
This un-Christian and even anti-Christian determinism is firmly rooted in grand theories Francis Fukuyama's 'The End of History and the Last Man'.

The Christian body should not conform to the proclaimed determinism of the world. We know no end of history, in the sense of a state of Communisme, or, a state of Neo-liberal world peace. The end must be the return of Jesus Christ.

I do not pretend to know much about this subject. Therefore I decided to read more on Christian worldviews. To begin with I would like to read Abraham Kuyper's Stone Lectures Series on Calvinism at Princeton University in 1898. Abraham Kuyper was one of the great scholars of Dutch theology. Later, in 1901 he would become Prime Minister of the Netherlands. And I still think that Kuyper is the only philopher-king like leader in the the low countries.
Oddly enough, Kuyper is better know in the United States than in the Netherlands. Perhaps that shows how post-modernist my country has become in the last decades. Contemporary Dutch culture does not leave room for a confessional hero. I guess that who we consider heroes tell much about the state of mind of our society.