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Speaking in long term terms, what is the mechanism by which societies secularize themselves, and are there ways to trigger it? For instance, the Jews too have a very explicit, canonic policy of stoning proselytizing apostates to death. When did they stop doing that, and why?
In Europe, it took decades/centuries of religious wars.
As for the Jews, I think they stopped doing it because they were conquered.