The Pew Poll tells us that society is secularizing — particularly among the young — and who can deny it? That is one reason that the free expression of religion is under such intense pressure in the West.
But it seems to me that we aren't really becoming less religious. Rather, many are merely changing that in which they put their faith. For some, it is the neo-earth religion of radical environmentalism that personalizes nature and advocates "nature rights" for "Pachamama," (the Incan earth goddess), or sees the earth as akin to a sentient organism, as in Gaia theory.
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