PublicAtheism is also self-perpetuating I believe.
The problem isn't so much that the PublicAtheism is getting all that many points from buildings and ancillaries (even though it does), the problem is that the reverse of PublicAtheism is only acquired by building temples, which aren't all that common after building it once or twice. And that once or twice only gives you less than 100% of acquiring one point of anti atheism.
So it is much easier to have publicatheism advance than to have its opposite. Which is how come many FMs come to get the Hatred of the Gods trait, max level atheism.
My solution was to lessen the chances for ancillaries to give publicatheism and to provide it from academies. As I have noticed, my FMs rarely get max level PublicFaith even now.
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