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> The mad rush to as quickly abolish religious practices in mainstream U.S. culture without any form of societal replacement is puzzling to me.

In the US, it's been a slow process over 35 years, since 1991.[1] England and Wales are much further along - believers are below 50%. But Islam is on the way up in the UK, at 6%.

The high-intensity religions, the ones that require religious activity once a day or more, seem to be thriving.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/religion/2022/09/13/how-u-s-reli...



The rise of Islam in UK is due to immigration from Islamic countries, not natives converting.


I'd say longer than that. I'd say religious participation in the USA has been declining since at least the 1970s.


See the chart in the article linked. The line is reasonably flat from 1972 to 1991, and then starts to climb linearly.




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