that's what up modern secular piassava lot of power. if you're trying to replace got to have to have a big budget which is why we are in a fiscal collapse in the west. that is my attempt to squeeze in that last little history there. i think you. i want to go right to questions. i hope you have many of them. >> thank you. one school in naples. religion is really hard to define. just about every paper and book begins with some sort of definition of what we're talking about. it seems that the definition you are working from his of functional definition, right? >> in this instance, yes. >> did you talk a little bit more about why you think that is the best way to approach the definition of religion? >> that is a great question. first of all, i will say something really surprising. the very notion of religion was actually invented the modern secularism in an attempt to demote christianity to be one more species of the genus, no better or worse than any others. there is actually a long history on the notion of religion having been invented. i