世俗主义是一种思想领导力，因为它引导并支配着信奉者的生活。它规定了人们看待生活的观点，并为其界定了生活方式。就世俗主义的观点而言，它建立在功利主义（追求利益）的基础之上，因为它把生活视为效用，只看重今世的幸福，而不看重后世的幸福。它只追求满足欲望的快乐和通过肉体享受获得的享乐。它认为除了物质价值之外别无价值，没有精神、道德或人道主义的价值。至于世俗主义引导信奉者所走的生活方式，则是代表自由与个人主义的生活方式。

Secularism is an intellectual leadership because it leads and directs the life of the one who adopts it. It specifies the viewpoint towards life and defines the way of life for him. As for the viewpoint of secularism, it is built upon the basis of utilitarianism (seeking benefit) as it perceives life as utility, seeing only worldly happiness and not happiness in the Hereafter. It sees only achieving the appetite of pleasure and the hedonistic enjoyment through bodily pleasure. It sees no value in anything other than the materialistic value. It does not have spiritual, moral or humanitarian values. As for the way of life to which secularism leads and directs those who adopt it, it is the lifestyle representing freedom and individualism.

世俗主义作为一种思想领导地位已经失败,因为它没有给人类带来真正的幸福。信奉它的人并未找到安宁与平静。这种思想领导以其功利主义观点和放纵的生活方式,给各国各民族带来了灾难。在它主导的时代,人类目睹了世界大战、纳粹与法西斯的集中营、有组织犯罪、数百万人的贫困以及饿死的惨剧。这种思想领导还带来了心理疾病,如抑郁症,以及身体疾病,如艾滋病。色情内容也泛滥成灾,导致社会和家庭纽带的瓦解,滋生了强奸文化和针对妇女的暴力。它还助长了自杀的念头。

Secularism as an intellectual leadership has failed because it did not grant humankind true happiness. Those who adopt it did not find tranquility and serenity. This intellectual leadership has inflicted calamities upon nations and peoples with its utilitarian viewpoint and permissive way of life. During its time, humanity has witnessed world wars, Nazi and fascist concentration camps, organized crime, poverty of millions of people and starvation to death. This intellectual leadership has brought with it psychological diseases, such as depression, and physical diseases, such as AIDS. Pornography has become rampant as well, which resulted in the breakup of societal and family ties, producing a rape culture and violence against women. It also has fostered the idea of suicide.

因此,西方的知识领导层无论在理论上还是实践上都是失败的领导,这一点连西方人自己也承认。社会学家罗德尼·斯塔克(Rodney Stark)与罗杰·芬克(Roger Finke)在其著作《信仰的行为:解释宗教的人性面向》(Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion)中作出了激烈而持续的批判,认为是时候埋葬世俗化理论了。他们写道:“经过近三个世纪完全失败的预言以及对当下和过去的歪曲,看来是时候把世俗化学说送进失败理论的墓地,并在那里轻声说一句:‘安息吧(rest in peace)。’”

Thus, the Western intellectual leadership is a failed leadership, both theoretically and practically, as attested to by its own people. In a fierce and sustained critique in their book, Acts of Faith- Explaining the Human Side of Religion, sociologists Rodney Stark and Roger Finke suggest it is time to bury the secularization thesis, “After nearly three centuries of utterly failed prophesies and misrepresentations of both present and past, it seems time to carry the secularization doctrine to the graveyard of failed theories, and there to whisper ‘requiescat in pace, (rest in peace).’”