There’s also this aspect...in a culture where anything goes and people feel insecure and demand order, the government is a huge threat, yes, and it does become arbitrary, yes, but here’s the other threat: Radical Islam. Sharia law. Western culture devoid of Judeo-Christian morality is fully ripe for takeover by Radical Islam. As unspeakably horrible as that ideology is, it WILL provide standards and order.
“Nature abhors a vacuum”.
You are correct. And people brought up in watered down Christianity or no Christianity at all are ripe for tbe picking.
I forget where I picked it up (FR?) but I once read that saying as:
“Power abhors a vacuum”
And with Islam being a political movement as well as a religious movement the muslims are also focused on power.
If Christianity has no power in the West then the muslims will see an opportunity where it presents itself.