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Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.

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Karen Armstrong
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 14
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