Why won’t religion just go away?

Barry Seagren | Reviews

Date posted: 1 Sep 2009

GOD IS BACK
How the Global Rise of Faith is Changing the World
By John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge. Allen Lane. 406 pages. £25.00
ISBN 978-0-713-99902-0

And the intelligentsia said, ‘Man has grown up; let religion disappear’.

And behold, religion flourished and became mighty in all the earth.

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Why won’t religion just go away?

Edith Schaeffer, 1914-2013