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Originally Posted by peter12
In the early stages of the Enlightenment, secular values were definitely the norm among the average person.
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I don't think there would be much argument that religious people outnumbered non-religious in the late 1700s - early 1800s. The vast majority would have been religious. I'm not sure what you mean specifically by "secular values" - which did they hold and then revert back to non-secular values sometime before the present day (as your argument suggests)?
Regardless, I don't think the religious beliefs of most people then (or perhaps at any time in human history) could compare in any way to the popularity of agnosticism and athiesm today.