EI Weekly Listen – Adrian Wooldridge on the return of religion

Dec 17, 2021, 07:00 AM

Voltaire predicted that religion would be defunct in fifty year's time. Karl Marx called it the opium of the masses and Nietzsche declared that God is dead. Adrian Wooldridge is now saying that He is back. From the rise of Islamic extremism to American evangelism, the twenty-first century is seeing a religious renaissance.

Voltaire predicted that religion would be defunct in fifty year's time. Karl Marx called it the opium of the masses and Nietzsche declared that God is dead. Adrian Wooldridge is now saying that He's back. From the rise of Islamic extremism to American evangelism, the twenty-first century is seeing a religious renaissance. Read by Leighton Pugh.

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