It shouldn't be surprising that a greater belief in woo would come with a decline of religion, because religion is actually a symptom of a bigger problem, which is poor reasoning. If people don't learn how to reason, they'll just replace one bad ideology with another.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
