When did Czechia become so irreligious, and why?
I’m Czech and I know basically no religious people. I thought religion was something people did in the past but not anymore until I was about 9.
The official data also shows that we have very low numbers of religious people. A lot of people will say that it’s to do with communist repression of religion - but this doesn’t seem a sufficient explanation to me, since we were one country with Slovakia during that period, and Slovakia is much more religious than us nowadays. Other Eastern bloc and ex-Soviet countries are also more religious than us.
So my question is, what are the historical factors that have contributes to this? What made us different from other countries that are culturally similar to us? Was this tendency present before WWII? Or did it emerge after we became a socialist country?