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The areas where the counter-reformation (i.e. theocracy) was strongest had the most secular populations. Do you call that religion or not-religion?

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The article claimed that it was a response to the counter reformation based on the decreased likelihood of the opening paragraphs of wills to refer to god. The claim being that people rebelled against the counter reformation.

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