Fundamentalist secularism is also a plague.
If by that you mean secular Statism... the State (govt. and social hierarchy of thieving socialists) then is the religion, and life a constant scratching the ground for the political favors and crumbs that are allowed to only the persistent.
Devoid of scripture and faith- then yeah— fundamental secularism (equals uniform misery). Impossible to achieve any social stability in such a world, so it’s no surprise the degradation this non-adherance to moral codes and destruction of core beliefs has done to the glue of society. What a Marxist Pope thinks is “progress”, in all of his own conceit.