I live in probably one of the most irreligious countries in the world and we don't really have a problem with school shootings. Consider the idea that the decl

I live in probably one of the most irreligious countries in the world and we don't really have a problem with school shootings. Consider the idea that the decline of religion might be an indication that it is being replaced by other convictions that will guide people's morality. Most people hold things for true that they'll happily defend, never question but can't prove right or wrong. For example, in embracing capitalism, socialism, humanism or whatever we'd already have made a huge ideology out of some arbitrary assumptions about what is morally ideal, what's right and what's wrong. These ideologies have their own rather abstract symbols and virtues, and their own stories of how things was, what they are and what they should be. Who needs Jehovah when you have invisible hands, proletariats, knowledge and similar higher order social concepts? I don't really believe that a nietzschean death of God where loss of religion is necessarily followed by the death of moral standards could happen unless you somehow kill off a widespread ideology in an instant.