"Athens & Jerusalem" or, "Blue state & Red State Christians"

Here's an interesting paragraph from one of my very favorite books, The Discarded Image by C.S. Lewis (you'll want your own copy - if you buy one from Amazon via the link on my sidebar, you'll make a small contribution to my Amazon Associates fund at no extra charge to you, helping me to expand my already-too-big library, not to twist your arm or anything...):

The present study, however, is interested not in the short-lived impact of the new religion [i.e. Christianity] on the old [i.e. Paganism] but with the enduring effect of the old upon the new. The last, and neo-Platonic, wave of Paganism which had gathered up into itself much from the preceding waves, Aristotelian, Platonic, Stoic, and what not, came far inland and made brackish lakes which have, perhaps, never been drained. Not all Christians at all times have detected them or admitted their existence: and among those who have done so there have always been two attitudes. There was then, and is still, a Christian 'left', eager to detect and anxious to banish every Pagan element; but also a Christian 'right' who, like St. Augustine, could find the doctrine of the Trinity foreshadowed in the Platonici,, or could claim triumphantly, like Justin Martyr, 'Whatever things have been well said by all men belong to us Christians'. (Pp. 48-49)

So, faithful readers (and I know there must be at least four or five of you), what do you think? Should we be on the Christian right or the Christian left, or somewhere in the middle? I guess I'm mostly leaning to the right, but not without some influences toward the left, which interestingly is much like my politics, which are overall "red state", albeit a noticeably purplish red.