For a religious person, a secular liberal society is a mistaken society. Religious people, believe that a secular society needs a religious element, because it is only in religion that we find something urgently needed by every society, something that a secular society cannot produce in and of itself.This kind of argument about secular liberal societies' lack of meaning is commonly made by conservatives, and it is usual interpretation of the argument about lack of meaning is that secular societies fail to offer binding concepts of meaning, but that people need them.

The next stage in the argument talks in terms of a culture of death and sometimes about a totalitarianism behind western liberal democracy because of its atheism;'or "the dictatorship of relativism" Plainly put this argues that the view that religion is a private matter and that its potential public role is defined on the basis that it is a private matter is an act of aggression against religion.