Predictions of the disappearance of Christianity have seemed to be confirmed by its demise as the dominant social force in Western society.13 This is new; there was a time in recent Western history, in spite of the dominance of secular humanism among the intellectual elite, when hardly anyone openly put the existence of God into doubt. For instance, in 1890, the Supreme Court of the United States defined religion as “one’s views of one’s relation to his Creator, to the obligations they impose of