You call them a Deists. Deism combines a rejection of religious knowledge as a source of authority with the conclusion that reason and observation of the natural world are sufficient to determine the existance of a single creator of the universe.
Loss of factory jobs led to less in the middle class or you needed to work a white collar job to be middle class.
Industrial jobs moved overseas leaving those working in factories without jobs. Middle class jobs no longer included factory work but rather service jobs many requiring college degrees.
They are germany, italy and japan.