Writing as a Washington correspondent for the London Daily Telegraph, famous pundit Malcolm Muggeridge wrote in 1946:

“Every now and again all my life I’d had a sudden mood of happiness, a kind of humility, a release from all fear, an awareness of the mysteriousness of my own being in relation to the universe. In such moods I recite the Lord’s Prayer to myself, finding great comfort and delight in its words….”

(Quoted in my book, Intellectuals and the Decline of Religion, Boolarong, 2017).