"With a sharper thrust but from a different angle, Peter Berger moves beyond the role of the clergy in the secularization of the world to the role of Protestantism as a whole. He concludes that in their preoccupation with 'otherworldliness' and in their emphasis on redemption as 'personal and individual,' Protestants unwittingly abandoned the arena of this world itself, leaving it a vacated venue. The 'New Jerusalem' became the place of focus for them, and this world was relinquished to secular causes and activity, In effect, with 'angels' no longer in this world, the astronomer and, indeed, the astronaut could now interpret space and time."
~Ravi Zacharias, Deliver Us From Evil, 51.
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