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Coolidge answered, "Sin." When she persisted, "Well, what did he say about sin?" this great, conservative New Englander answered, "He was agin' it." Coolidge was not an effervescent conversationalist 1 But any moderately alert person, given such an opening, could carry the conversation into many of the most important problems that face our country — secularism, separation of Church and State, religious education; mixed marriage, divorce, birth control; conscience, free will, dogma and infallibility; psychiatry, confession, and peace of mind and soul; statism, communism, democracy; denominationalism, nationalism, racism; armaments, security, justice, and peace. Christianity touches upon all of man's most important problems. Its very mention is a challenge to secularism, which is the conspiracy of silence against it.