To her credit, Lisa did hesitate before answering, mostly because she wasn't sure how in depth Alecto wanted her to be. After her hesitation, however, she started in on how the last witch hunts in developed nations took place in shortly before a time period called the Age of Reason, in which Muggles' concerns were more and more with the tangible and provable than with the intangible and unprovable. From that point, Lisa said, and also due to urbanization--as the Age of Reason coincided with Muggles (and witches and wizards, at that) moving more and more into cities, which meant that they had less need for religious institutions, since they could socialize without going to church now that they all lived very close together. Especially in the last half century since the second World War, Muggles have been less and less interested in appeasing a deity and more and more interested in their own technologies--things like the internet, television, compact discs, and so on--and developed nations are rapidly becoming post-religious societies.