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The Secularist Revolution begins with considerations of metaphysical questions about creation, a creator, the purpose of creation and questions about the creations’ behavior and activities after being created. In doing so, it examines people’s behavior from their earliest days into the 21st century. It summarizes revolutions in technology and their effects on human activity. It examines the relationship between religious and political power through the ages and how religious doctrine, dogma, practice, and belief hold people in thrall. The story revolves about a group of mathematicians’ development of a computer program to translate any textual work idiomatically to any other language, called a Universal Text Translator (UTT), and a wearable device called Universal Language Translator (ULT) that translates any spoken language idiomatically to any other one. When the mathematicians form an organization called World Universal Language Translator Organization (WULTO) to produce and freely distribute the program and device, political and religious authorities resist, criminalizing and banning their use and suppressing disbelievers’ call for a secularist revolution to overthrow religious - political authorities’ power over people. The secularist revolution fails but secularism evolves.