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This is such a great observation that it seems obvious as soon as I read it, but it didn't occur to me at all, especially in the sense you have framed:
The decline of Christianity isn't a dissipation, it's a contraction towards the hard core.
Gaming that out leads to some pretty alarming scenarios, and that's relative to the alarming scenario we are currently living through!
The hard core was always there, the more moderate ones were just cloaking it