I believe you are correct. Europe is given over to hedonism. Their attitude seems to say that there is no point to any of this life except the pleasure one can get out of it.
There is no afterlife, or at least nothing I do will affect where I end up. There is no right or wrong.
Such is the darkness of Europe.
They think that the government will always be there to take care of them, no matter how foolish they are.
The State has replaced God. "Our father, who are in (insert Berlin, Stockholm, Rome, etc.).... The population looks to the State to look after them, not the Lord.