>The western world is an exception to the general norm I see this quoted a lot, but I don't think it's true: + There are plenty of places (and with a signific

>The western world is an exception to the general norm I see this quoted a lot, but I don't think it's true: + There are plenty of places (and with a significant population) outside the western world that are quite secular and have become more secular in the past decades + There are places in the West that have become more religious. If by "Western" you mean just "Western Europe", then, yeah, that's a specially secular place but it's also a tiny place in both population and area. China, Japan and South Korea are quite secular in many ways. A big chunk of Latin America is now quite secular too. You already have ~1.5B people fairly secular people that are non western. On the other hand, countries like Poland or Hungary (which I'm guessing we would classify as Western) are becoming more religious.