Word: greenley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...GREENLEY'S ARGUMENT takes two forms. On the empirical front, he gathers statistical evidence to show that a majority of the population, both young and old, believes in God, looks upon the Bible as an inspired book, believes in Heaven and Hell and doesn't like mixed marriages. On the theoretical front, he invokes the theories of sociologist Robert Nisbet to show that at the root of the liberal sociologists view of religion lies the assumption of organic revolution. The prophets at the "great secular universities" believed that history was clearly heading in one direction, that the human race...