The eighteenth-century Enlightenment, however, introduced the distinction now familiar to us between sacred and secular. Today we consider religion only one activity of man. It isn’t his whole life. Other areas, such as politics, have staked out their own claim upon life. If God’s existence is not totally ignored in these areas, no one thinks of making his law binding on everyone. God has no more of a practical role in American politics or American laws of sexual morality than he did in the former Soviet Union. Marxism was simply more consistent than the West in carrying to its extreme the
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