[Jim W N]

Not quite accurate.

The practice of Islam is filling a vacuum left when around the beginning of the 20th Century, the world began leaving their trust and faith in the God and Father of Jesus Christ.

[pieceofthepuzzle]

I don't think it's been just a case of the world turning its back on God or Christianity. IMHO, Christianity has been targeted by the left for much of the last century, and it continues. The approach was to discredit Christianity as a superstitious belief system that is perpetuated in large measure among the ‘uneducated’, and that can't stand up to ‘intellectual’ scrutiny. This strategy has had an impact. Ironically, Islam, with the clinging to barbaric practices of centuries past, is less scrutinized by the ‘intelligentsia’ than is Christianity.

Ironically, it is actually the dogma of the pseudo-intellectuals in society that is the most vulnerable to critical thought, and this scrutiny is what needs to happen. Political correctness is just one element of an extensive philosophical construct that has been perpetuated in Western society as ‘modern’ and ‘progressive’. IMHO, we should be moving forward, and our understanding of the world growing from generation to generation, but the way to do this is not by suppressing conversation and individual thought, and not by propagating a specific way of thinking such as that which is ubiquitous on almost every college campus.

To me, God is truth, and to be a truth seeker is the highest order of intellectual activity. Further, fervent secularism is also a ‘belief’ system, and requires a lot of blind faith. To stop the slide away from spirituality of which you write, IMHO we need to fight back against the false characterizations of spiritual thought and faith as anti-modern and anti-intellectual. Nothing could be further from the truth.