Question Evolution!: Professor at a leading American university says secularism, as a social movement and political worldview, has been in a downward trajectory over recent decades in the United States

Questions:

1. Does secularism need to check into rehab? Do secularists need to sober up and become Bible believers and young earth creationists?

2. Has secularism been on a downward trajectory in recent decades in the United States?

Author Sarah Posner writes:

That was the subject of a conference last week at Georgetown University, Secularism on the Edge, organized by Jacques Berlinerblau, the director of the university's Program for Jewish Civilization and author of the book, How to Be Secular. Berlinerblau's central argument is that secularism has a robust history in the United States, but that it needs to "check into rehab." As Berlinerblau told me when we discussed his book on Bloggingheads, secularism, as a social movement and political worldview, has been in a downward trajectory over recent decades in the United States. In his book, Berlinerblau offers a "12-step program" for a secularist movement to revitalize itself.