There is an old Scottish belief/myth my Grandmother used to tell me about when explaining why/why not I got polio at age two ... she used the myth to debunk my childish irrational fears. Roughly, the myth is that those who are loved too much by their parents are the ones the gods torment out of jealousy. My grandmother's message was that I didn't come down with polio because some god was angry or jealous. Things just happen.
As the world becomes more secularized, an interesting phenomenon occurs: those with a penchant to believe in God for the magic thinking aspect of religiosity will begin to move more toward fear of what satan will do to them if they don't 'go along to get along', rather than fear the Lord's judgment. They rational ignoring God's judgment and His clear messages regarding same written in the Bible as 'God is a loving God, so if I can't stand against the onslaught of evil which I cannot individually stop, God will understand and forgive me my weakness.'
What we are seeing is not so much 'loss of faith in God', it is the satanic plea to 'stop fearing God and God's prescribed judgment.' And after all (satan will whisper) didn't Jesus actually say 'fear him who can destroy body and soul', and soul is equated with 'the cares of this world' in our growing secularized society. We are witnessing the 'believing of a lie'. We are seeing the great delusion playing out in these end times.
Worthy points, imho.