rampant in historiography. In particular, historian Brad Gregory warns that historians presupposing pure metaphysical naturalism have produced a sort of “secular confessional history, parallel to traditional religious confessional history only with different embedded metaphysical beliefs.”[123] These beliefs, he warns, are so deeply ingrained at the unconscious level that those writing with this bias are far less apt to acknowledge their bias than writers of other confessional histories are.
