I posit that there are very few genuinely religious people left in the United States, and by extension, The West. I am most familiar with Christian theology and dogma, so I am most comfortable critiquing it over say Buddhism or Islam.

Taken at face value, the teaching of Jesus of Nazareth as portrayed in the Bible is full of very explicit messages about the proper, or godly relationship between the reader/supplicant, God, and the rest of humanity. If you want to be a theologically correct Christian, you will live a life of poverty, relative to your peers. After all, Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God And that is not subject to 'interpretation.' In context of the story it says that a rich rich dude asked how he could become a disciple of Jesus and the man said it was simple. Give all you have to the poor save the clothes on your back and a few crusts of bread and then you can follow me and we'll get to the real work. But first you must GIVE. Rejection of the value of poverty, or in fact, 'Prosperity Theology' runs counter to a direct command from the flesh incarnation of the One True Living God. Now tell me, how many 'Christians' believe that? How many of them use poverty as a guiding principle of their lives and spiritual identity? By the definition of their own deity anybody with a few pennies to rub together cannot claim the title of 'Christian.'

The point of all of that is to express that America, and by some extension 'The West' takes the bits it likes from whatever religion is least offensive at the time, washes them clean of whatever parts don't fit into our existing model of our place in the world, and wears them proudly like a cheap rhinestone necklace at a jewelers convention. In statistically significant numbers, we don't distinguish genuine spirituality from it's inexpensive feel good knock offs.