Good point. I suspect that it is at least partly because Global Headquarters and Satellite Managers have an intrinsic fear of intelligent consideration as opposed to rote subservience. The western world is NOT any more intelligent than anywhere else. However, culturally, it seems that the separation of church and state and the maelstrom of cultural mix, wealth and education have all contributed to a freedom towards alternative, quest, question, reflection and change.  This scares the "whatever" out of the self-interest intransigent, the intrinsically faithless Managers and the uber-conservative. 
There is also the pastoral pessimist elite who sincerely believe that men are intrinsically evil, women are worse and that humanity is doomed unless controlled and led - by them. 
One can sense the church has withdrawn - retreated - from the formation of the faithful to the formation of clergy in the west. A real sign of having given up, they can't handle reason/fact, person, change/evolution.