Article August 6, 1984 Issue

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Clifford Longley

The Times

From The Times, London, October 17, 1983 by Clifford Longley, Religious Affairs Correspondent

"Religion's slow retreat under the onslaught of secular thought may have reached its turning point. It may be too soon to anticipate a counter-attack, but there can come a point when a withdrawing and defeated army begins to sense that its pursuer has started to fall to pieces, and may have become the weaker of the two, actually defeatable should it be brought to battle a second time.

"Part of the evidence [that this is so] is that people in the religious camp do seem to believe it is true, and what people believe to be true in this respect is itself capable of changing the way things are.

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