This aptly captures the essence of the secularization thesis, of which there is a hard form and a soft form.2 Max Weber described the hard form as such: with the progress of time, men everywhere willbecome increasingly less enchanted with the world around them, slowly shedding all superstitions and even belief in a personal God. This process was termed “disenchantment.” Popularized by Weber, the secularization thesis maintains that with man’s increased control over his environment, there will come a rationalization of action and a concomitant disenchantment with the world. People will no longer wonder at the mysteries of the world and will no longer conceive of them as worthy of adoration and reverence, signs of a Greater All-Loving Being. Rather, everything becomes a logical puzzle to be broken into, paralleling the mechanical surroundings

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