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At least in the western world, secularism is in the ascendancy. The proportion of people with no religious affiliation has been increasing for several decades and religious views are often considered to be less and less relevant when it comes to decisions about society, law, politics and even morality.

The man who boasted that he could murder a person in broad daylight and still win the presidency has discovered that a politician can still go “too far”. Several prominent Republicans have withdrawn their support for Donald Trump after The Washington Post revealed an audio recording of him making vulgar boasts about sexually assaulting women.