Ravi makes it clear that the issue here is not whether religion has value to the individual, just that it has no value to society.
Secularism takes the view that religious beliefs are irrelevant to how society operates.
Historian David Marshall lays a major portion of the blame for this slide into secularism at the door of the Christian clergy. It was from their ranks, he says, that the defection began. From their ranks came the call to congregations to abandon the notion of an authoritative Scripture and to surrender the biblical perspective on life's deepest questions. This was the explosive force that would demolish any claim to Christian uniqueness. Many revisionist ideas are mere conjecture wrapped in scholarly garb, often supported by liberal clergy.