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The god(s) of a society embody its morality.  When people of a culture study their god(s), they are effectively studying the moral traditions that made that society successful.  When people abandon their god(s), they also abandon traditions and morality.  In all of history, societies always went into decay after they abandoned their traditional god(s).  This happened to the Greeks and Romans.  The Old Testament chronicles how this happened to the Jews of Israel/Judah.  And this is happening today with liberalism.  Liberalism only fully expressed itself in the 1960s and I highly doubt that Western culture will survive a full century from then.