The crowning irony of this irony - filled era Marty effectively saves for the book's climax: this age filled with ecumenical rhetoric was also a great age of civil religion; hence with World War I, warfare became the great ecumenical event. (religion-online.org)
Furthermore, from time to time we even feel sated by the offerings of the consumer market and, irony of ironies, wonder if perhaps there is something more to life. (religion-online.org)