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Secularization theory is a term that was used in the fifties and sixties by a number of social scientists and historians. Basically, it had a very simple proposition. It could be stated in one sentence. Modernity inevitably produces a decline of religion.

— Peter L. Berger

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In science as in love a concentration on technique is quite likely to lead to impotence.

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