The Difference Between Western Europe and the United States in Religiosity

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After world war too, the percentage of europeans that believed in god and were deeply religious collapsed. But that didn't happen in the united statesa you coun take it back further to the secularization thesis,. That as we modernize and public education and the spread of secularism, religion will fall into disuse. I don't know, be really interesting. O lu, there isn't te death of religion is acutey overstated. A o lobale basis. The global trend in religiosity is obviously upwards because of e less developed nations population growing and being much more highly religious.

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