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Christopher Lasch once observed that if you argue with a conservative, he will tell you that you are wrong. If you argue with a liberal, he will tell you that you are sick and need to be cured. The more "illness" you can find, the more you will be able to declare yourself the cure.

It may be that no group of people can be free from "religion". The push for secularism is just the advocacy of a new religion, not the absence of religion. Secularism could be called the worship of man in general and self in particular. Like all other religions, it does not want competition.

Hudson Taylor, (a 19th century British missionary to China) once wrote after observing how the Chinese treated their women that he did not think British Women appreciated how much they owed to Christianity.

we are not allowed to have the toilets, light bulbs, and gas cans we want. Why should we be allowed to have plastic bags.