In what America does this guy live in? In the last 10 years the number of non-religious people doubled (14 mil to 29 mil) while those calling themselves Christian declined by nearly 10% and by their own numbers 88 percent of the children raised in evangelical homes leave church at the age of 18, never to return.
That secularism gave us abortions by the millions and this has started making many Americans, including the daughters of the women who marched for Roe v. Wade, a little squeamish to say the least.
Ummm no. All the Supreme Court Justices as well as the Presidents and Senators who put them in where in fact Christians, and so are the women who've had the majority of abortions
Did you even read the article? It's about the pride and power, not numbers. Do you think Jews gained religious pride by numbers?
By definition, religious awakenings arise out of religious slumber, which you aptly identify. Rabbi Lappin may be right or wrong about the timing, but awakenings usually follow when it looks like things just can't get any worse. God will turn up the heat until we pay attention to him...
You've proven the Rabbi's point: The definition of "secularization" is that the actions come to resemble non-religious, rather than religious. Regardless of the nominal religious status.
The heart of secularization is this example from Pennsylvania vs. Casey, 1993:
""At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence, of meaning, of the universe, and of the mystery of human life. Beliefs about these matters could not define the attributes of personhood were they formed under compulsion of the State.""