I was at one time in a place where the only western TV news I could get was an hour late at night of CNN International.
When you watch CNN in the US, its bad enough, but you see it within a kind of context. You know what the US is, in its essence, and whatever claptrap CNN is putting out gets viewed with that as the backdrop.
But cut off from that, with CNN International as the entirety of what you know, the US looks like an insane asylum, a corrupt, filthy, immoral sewer of an insane asylum.
And that is the view that the rest of the world has of us. Those who have visited here, lived here or studied here, know there is a much more complete story. But for the rest, all you see is madness. So muslims who would try to evangelize me assumed they were doing me a favor, that I would be happy to accept their moral vision, since I was obviously a decent guy unlike the rest of my compatriots as seen on CNN International.
The author gets a lot of it right.
Much of modern secularism is based on atheism and a belief in the “perfectibility” of man, which is madness. We are limited creatures.
Without any moral limits, Secularism produces megadeaths, just as much as the pagan Aztecs, Mongols, and Islam did.
You cannot really separate out Judeo/Christian values from Western Civilization. When you try to, you get Soviet Gulags, Pol Pot, Hitler, or Mao.
Japan is an interesting case, a really hybrid society that has thrived under the United States Judeo/Christian umbrella.