I think it's more than that - the West has become hostile to life in general, life as it really is. I hate to say "we," because it annoys me when people "we" and I don't think it includes me :-), so "a significant element in our society" seems only to want the kind of life that can't be achieved without dreadful inhumanity: a life in which sex doesn't make babies; people don't become old, sick or incapacitated; a spouse is never unsatisfactory; "somebody" provides exactly what we want without an inconvenient level of effort.
If one can get life to work that way, one doesn't need God, but can imagine oneself as God.
Excellent post. You’ve worded it exactly as it is.