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Originally Posted by Perun
A quarter millennium later, their successors are still wrong. Religion—imperfect, troubled, always changing, conflicted, always surviving, always under assault—still manages to hang on. Those who know more about such things than I do tell me that modernity is finished.
There is some truth to that.
Organised religion has outlived all the people and movements of the past which eagerly predicated it's demise.
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