Against Secularism and Atheism

The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying *organized violence*. Westerners often forget this fact; non Westerners never do.

Far more significant than economics and demography are problems of moral decline, cultural suicide, and political disunity in the West.

1. increases in antisocial behavior, such as crime, drug use, and violence generally;

2. family decay, including increased rates of divorce, illegitimacy, teen-age pregnancy, and single-parent families;

3. at least in the United States, a decline in "social capital" that is, membership in voluntary associations and the interpersonal trust associated with such membership;

4. general weakening of the "work ethic" and rise of a cult of personal indulgence;

5. decreasing commitment to learning and intellectual activity, manifested in the United States in lower levels of scholastic achievement.

Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, then that marks the end of a nation. Ibn Khaldun in his Muqadammah