Christianity made science possible by helping to desacralize nature and also in helping to preserve much ancient scientific literature destroyed by “pagan” invaders of Rome.    From Wordnik.com.  [Think Progress » Unlikely ‘War on Christmas’ skeptic:] Reference

The language is actually real English and not committee-speak designed to desacralize the liturgy with fortune cookie inanities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domine, da mihi hanc aquam!] Reference