very influential in a society, this has meant that humanism has been able to wield an influence out of proportion with its numbers. Intellectuals and their allies are the elite in society, and in any society, the elite usually gets what it wants. Many nonintellectuals have, in the process, become secularized, as has society as a whole. Perhaps more surprising is the extent to which Christians themselves have become secularized. This is especially true in the liberal mainline churches, some of which