Secularization is a silent process that simply happens, rather than a philosophy that can be chosen or rejected. So, it subtly shapes even those people (Christians included) who would never knowingly subscribe to such a philosophy and turns them into subconscious secularists. Marx’s sidekick Engels noted wryly how English religion and respectability were infected by nineteenth-century skepticism: “The introduction of salad oil has been accompanied by a fateful spread of Continental skepticism in