'For some people, secularism may be desirable as a social ideal. But as a framework for describing, explaining and predicting the course of global politics in the real world, it has become a serious liability. Believers in iron laws of history are usually disappointed in the end. Believers in a "march of history" toward some secular end-state are headed for more disappointment than most.'
Timothy Samuel Shah and Monica Duffy Toft, 'God Is Winning: Religion in Global Politics' in Paul Marshall et al. Blind Spot: When Journalists Don't Get Religion, p.27.
