> Nietzsche famously declared “God is dead” in the 1880s<p>This over-simplification and misapplication of this quote has reached catastrophic levels.
To me it's a declining sense of being part of humanity, and I would say faiths in general emphasise that. So I think this is looking at it the wrong way round. The decline caused by an emphasis on the individual.
How about the de Tocqueville model? <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861369">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39861369</a>