Lipton Matthews at the libertarian site Mises.org, which I have grown to admire in this world of totalitarianism and degradation of freedom and liberty, makes the telling point that as people have embraced secularisation, and moved away from religion, namely Christianity, not Islam which is the fastest growing religion in the West, thanks to mass immigration, there has been a corresponding breakdown in social capital, or civilised life. The main point is that people lack a moral foundation to life. Of course, intellectuals can spend their time working out their own personal philosophy and cosmology, which will likely be incoherent, but the ordinary people do not have time for this. Christianity in particular offered consolation and hope for those who end up on the difficult side of life, be this social economic inequality, or ill health. And, of course, ultimate spiritual salvation. Secularising society, and conducting an assault upon traditional values, as in sexual morality, and the planned destruction of the family, creates a strong sense of anomie, as Durkheim defined it, a sense of alienation, and being ungrounded. It is a social disease.
But, like most things, there is a great pendulum of history, and the swing back to God is inevitable.