Secularists may not like it, but that’s the choice they’re facing. A shiny, secular science-fiction society is just that, a fiction:
The Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a body of the country’s leading military and diplomatic figures, says the loss of British values and national identity caused by “flabby and bogus” Government thinking has made the country vulnerable to attack from Islamic extremists.
“The UK presents itself as a target, as a fragmenting, post-Christian society,” the report says, and is “increasingly divided” on its history, national aims, values and political identity. That fragmentation is worsened by the firm self-image of those elements within it who refuse to integrate…. The deep guarantee of real strength is our knowledge of who we are. Our loss of cultural self-confidence weakens our ability to develop new means to provide for our security in the face of new risks. Our uncertainty incubates the embryonic threats these risks represent.”
Cultures do not survive if they do not propagate. Secular culture is sterile in every sense, this is why it cannot survive except on the foundation of a religious culture. But, because it erodes its foundation, it dooms itself to a short-lived existence and inevitable replacement by that which it was believed to itself replace.