Not necessarily the real world—definitely not the only option

Taylor’s point is that this is an imaginary — not that this is all just a fiction, but rather that this is a “take” on the world. While we have come to assume that this is just “the way things are,” in fact what we take for granted is contingent and contestable.—James K. A. Smith, How (Not) to Be Secular, 46 (emphasis original)