My view is that when you remove organised religion, you'll find any number of bizarre pseudospiritualist beliefs take its place, or it will just be replaced by another religion whose adherents are more comitted to their faith, as in Western Europe.

Beyond the West, the idea of the world becoming less religious doesn't hold up. Africa, the Middle East and India are all major religious centres and are becoming a larger share of the world population.

Even inside Europe and North America, birthrates favour religious minorities over the irreligious majority, pointing to a more religious future.

Basically, athiesm was just a moment.