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There Has Been A Religious Revival Because - Let Me Put It Like This, The People That Weren't Traditionally Religious, Conventionally Religious, Had A Religion Of Their Own In My Youth. These Were Liberals Who Believed In The Idea Of Progress Or They Were Marxists. Both Of These Secular Religions Have Broken Down.

-Reinhold Niebuhr

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There Has Been A Religious Revival Because

Reinhold Niebuhr

There Has Been A Religious Revival Because - Let Me Put It Like This, The People That Weren't Traditionally Religious, Conventionally Religious, Had A Religion Of Their Own In My Youth. These Were Liberals Who Believed In The Idea Of Progress Or They Were Marxists. Both Of These Secular Religions Have Broken Down.

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