I’ve been digging into the literature on religious history, in light of the re-emerging spark of religious belief in the western world. It’s particularly relevant in Canada and the United States, mostly because both countries were founded upon Judeo-Christian values, and arguably as were the academic institutions that we hold in such high regard. Let’s begin by a short recall of the past.

Previously, the typical man, the ‘religious man’ saw the world as acting in concordance with…