The Rise of the "Nones" in America doesn't mean a decline in belief, per this from the Atlantic:
"(W)hat was once religious belief has now been channeled into political belief."
That said, there is no "god-shaped hole." There IS, rather, a "god-belief-shaped hole."
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The "nones" may indeed, per the SJW division of liberals (who are NOT leftists) may act in ways the second link states. But, with people acting like there is one, that may happen.
On the right, as the Religious Right had made the church politics in a way that the Black church really had not (and, in some ways, was forced to), with tied with the rise of Trumpism. So, they're already prepared for that.
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