It has long been fashionable in the Western world to treat faith with a kind of embarrassed condescension. A relic of a more primitive time.
Useful, perhaps, for inspiring great art or comforting the bereaved, but not to be mentioned in serious company and certainly not in the company of generals or heads of state. At some point, the modern mind decided that invoking God was unsophisticated. That prayer belonged to children and televangelists. That miracles were metaphors.
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