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 However, this is all built on the assumption that wealth/prosperity = faithlessness. This is also sometimes argued in the primary world...but, yeah, no.\\
 The large-scale decline in religiosity didn't really happen until World War 1...particularly in Europe. In America the decline can be attributed to Boomers and their support of Post-Modernism. And, well, depending on how you look at it, the Boomers //were// a result of prosperity, though it's perhaps more accurate to say the Boomers were the result of catastrophically bad parenting advice based on bad understandings of psychology.\\
-The idea that wealth/prosperity = faithlessness is largely a myth.((:fn:>I think this myth is favored by the irreligious since it gives them a sense of superiority over the ‘backward’ and ‘poor’ religious.)) I mean, the Victorian Era is mostly remembered as ‘steampunk’, but it was also a super religious time period. In fact, Americans stuck to religion as official justification until, at least, the end of WW2...since MacArthur specifically promised to convert Japan to Christianity by pumping them full of missionaries. That was also a thing the European powers did in their colonies: promote Christianity by encouraging missionaries to move in.\\
+The idea that wealth/prosperity = faithlessness is largely a myth.((:fn:>I think this myth is favored by the irreligious since it gives them a sense of superiority over the ‘backward’ and ‘poor’ religious.)) I mean, the Victorian Era is mostly remembered as ‘steampunk’, but it was also a super religious time period. In fact, Americans stuck to religion as official justification until, at least, the end of WW2...since MacArthur specifically promised to convert Japan to Christianity by pumping them full of missionaries.((:fn:>This isn't 100% related and my memory is fuzzy, but I believe the reasoning was that Japan became imperialist and nationalist and whatnot because they were non-Christian, so it was reasoned they would become more pacifist by converting them. The reasoning is kinda dumb, but this isn't the place to argue with MacArthur.)) That was also a thing the European powers did in their colonies: promote Christianity by encouraging missionaries to move in.\\
 I'm pointing to the Victorian Era specifically because that was a period in time where Science was viewed with a lot of prestige and people (particularly the British) were getting significantly wealthier...yet it didn't seem to erode their spiritual beliefs at all. Even Darwin remained religious after discovering evolution.\\
 Youjo Senki is actually, probably, depicting a fairly accurate version of the First World War (and prior), spiritually speaking.\\