Let us not project our own spiritual limitations onto the modern world, for it is not the world which prevents us from being religious. The kind of world we live in shapes the manner and mode of our religiousness

Harvey Cox
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A person is not only guided by the world in which he functions but also shaped by it. The modern world has many limitations, but it can’t stop us from being religious no matter how much the modern world tries to imprison us. The modern world may have all kinds of limitations, but it cannot prevent us from being religious.

Source: Religion In The Secular City: Toward A Postmodern Theology

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