Richard Rorty Quote of the Day

I've been pondering this assertion from Rorty's Objectivity, Relativism and Truth (p 33):

Pragmatism seems to me . . . a philosophy of solidarity rather than of despair.  From this point of view, Socrates' turn away from the gods, Christianity's turn from an Omnipotent Creator to the man who suffered on the Cross, and the Baconian turn from science as contemplation of eternal truth to science as instrument of social progress, can be seen as so many preparations for the act of social faith which is suggested by a Nietzschean view of truth.

As a descriptive claim that Christianity's emphasis on the humanitarian here and now prepared the ground for a more subjective view of truth, is Rorty on to something?