Certainly religion's prime competitive strength vis-a-vis science is that it does claim to make the world wholly intelligible. That's obviously a key reason why modern secular society creates such enormous psychic stresses despite the abundant material comforts afforded by advanced technology. I recall that as being a central argument of a book I read many years ago, Cornell historian Carl Becker's classic The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth Century Philosophers.
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