This week marks the anniversary of four separate, yet strangely connected historical events. We remember the Hindenburg disaster, the births of Robespierre and Sigmund Freud, and Stalin’s rise to premier of the Soviet Union. And they all highlight humanity’s ambition to baptize itself with the language of progress while removing God from the public sphere. Marcus has more.

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