The great gift of secularism, in turn, has been tolerance. Despite horrific twentieth-century backsliding in Europe, secularism has served to blunt the edge of bigotry, because secular reasoning, unlike divine revelation, is never conclusive.
反过来，世俗化带来的大礼物是宽容。尽管二十世纪的欧洲发生了可怕的倒退，但世俗化仍有助于钝化偏执，因为世俗理性不同于神启，不具有一锤定音的效力。