Thanks be to those secularist who founded the US, realising the terrible power of religion and who went out of their way to ensure that the Church would have no part in the workings of the state. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Upon first thought, and according to ancient conceptions, such a fragmentation of social powers might seem to deprive societies of the integrative power of religion. (religion-online.org)
Something seems to have gone wrong with the explanatory power of religion, and so theologians have gone rummaging through available world views in the hope of finding one that will reconstitute the meaningfulness of Christian discourse. (religion-online.org)