[Linda Frances]

In 1776 Voltaire said, “100 years from my day there will not be a Bible in the earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity seeker.” 100 years later Voltaire’s home was being used as a distribution point for spreading Bibles throughout Europe* and within 26 years of his death the British & Foreign Bible Society had been founded, sparking an unprecedented era of Bible distribution**.

In 1778 Voltaire, boasting of himself said, “It took 12 men to start Christianity; one will destroy it.” That was the very year that he died*.

Robert Ingersoll said, “In 15 years I will have this book [the Bible] in the morgue.” Fifteen years later, Ingersoll himself was in the morgue and in his estate sale a preacher bought his desk and spent his life writing sermons on it*.

[ClearCase_guy]

The Progressives want to take us back to the 1930s. Or maybe the 1890s. Or perhaps 1789 so that they can set up guillotines for the clergy and the rich again.

It's odd what they consider "progress".

[Disambiguator]

I checked, and this article was not written by a former member of the Talking Heads, but a different David Byrne.
(Hey, you never know!)

[Viennacon]

It’s funny that they honestly believe “mature” societies shed religion. There’s another common correlation. Countries that were once powerful and wealthy decline as they embrace secularism. Just look at the UK, and now the US. I also remember a study recently that revealed more people today are committing suicide than during the Great Depression. I wonder why.

[Biggirl]

Today being Pentecost the Christian faith always, always has a way to make a comeback.

Come, Holy Spirit. Amen.

[karnage]

So, history runs in cycles - fine. I kinda thought the author might present some current evidence for his headline, but he’s just talking about the concept of a Christian resurgence in the abstract. Oh, well...

[HoneysuckleRose]

“A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell.”
- C.S. Lewis

[circlecity]

The book of Ecclesiastes clearly teaches that natural and human history runs in circles. Only Gods redemptive plan runs linearly with a preconcieved objective and plan but that plan cannot be discerned merely by observation of natural and human events. Observing these will only take you in circles.

Whatever will be
Has already been done
And there is nothing new
Under the sun.

[Zionist Conspirator]

The linear conception of history is so seductive, even antagonistic groups like Enlightenment philosophers and Marxists adopt it. It pervades their attitude toward religion. Both believe society matures as it sheds its religious heritage. Infantile societies practice religion, but progressive societies are secular, they maintain.

Yet nowadays the Left champions the "indigenous pipples" and their pre-enlightenment superstitions.