GSLOB---Your comments display ignorance on a grand level.
Eleni mou, the spiritually dead materialism of the West, its "highest" form being communism, has achieved its purpose with so many people in both the East and the West, that even the Pope has forcefully called out for a Latin/Orthodox challenge to these ideas. In the West however the bacillus of secularism, however successful, never approached, tactically, the publicly expressed purpose of communism in the East, which was in great measure to destroy Orthodoxy. It should come as no surprise that it succeeded with some.
It might well have triumphed in the Patrida but for the faith of our people and their love for our Church. In my maternal village, the communists came and desecrated the churches, killed babies, raped women and left a body hanging from every tree limb in the plateia. The Church did nothing...except call all the people to prayer, secretly at first and publically after the communists left. That was all the village church could do and it was more than enough. A secularist, no matter where he or she might be from, can never understand this unless he or she is willing to undertake a sort of self abnegation before God which few of them are willing to do and an acceptance of the fact that evil is very real in this world. It has to do with pride, Eleni mou.