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Walter Wink believes that for many, many people, violence is the real religion of our time. "This Myth of Redemptive Violence," Wink writes, "is the real myth of the modern world. It, and not Judaism or Christianity or Islam, is the dominant religion in our society today" (The Powers That Be: Theology For a New Millennium [New York: Doubleday, 199], p. 42).