Wow. I have had a feeling for this. Secularisation in a micro level forces people to confront their reality and own up to their situation. This has a tendency to create doers.
“Very often secularisation is indeed accompanied by a greater tolerance of homosexuality, abortion, divorce etc. But that isn’t to say that religious countries can’t become prosperous. Religious institutions need to find their own way of modernising and respecting the rights of individuals.” Alex Bentley from the University of Tennessee, added: “Over the course of the 20th century, changes in importance of religious practices appear to have predicted changes in GDP across the world. This doesn’t necessaril
Source: Claims about secularization and economic growth – Marginal REVOLUTION