I agree in that it generally requires a religious bent in order to consistently care about being a moral person. People need a higher power to believe in and upon which to practice faith. When they lose that they turn to idiocies to BELIEVE IN . . . such as Marxism. But aside from being economic suicide, Marxism has no use whatsoever for family values, love for one's fellow human being, or even for the traits of ethics, honesty, or integrity.
Personally I don't care if a person is a Christian, a Taoist, A Jew, a Buddhist, a Hindu, a Muslim, or anything else as long as the general guidelines of the good and decent parts of BEING a GOOD HUMAN BEING are part and parcel of the practice of that faith. But when leftists cut every aspect of religion out of public school systems -- while ONLY conservatives objected -- and substituted insane and harmful Cultural Marxist ideology instead our nation then began the process of the rotting of this nation from the inside out.
As the Catholic Jesuits said, 'Give me a child till he is seven years old, and I will show you the man;' the leftists, ironically, PROVED that statement by turning out two generations of progressively more thoroughly and intensely trained Cultural Marxist adults . . . Millennials and Gen-Z. They are too emotionally self-centered and -- frankly -- spoiled to invest the time and effort for meaningful religious investment of time or effort. They cleave to leftist ideology because it offers unlimited emotionally satisfying virtue-signaling with zero -- apparent to it's increasingly mindless practitioners -- negative consequences or either a short or long term nature. The leftists promise them the possibility of an easy life via Equity versus the harder and uncertain road of conservative Equality.
Leftists offer them absolutely nothing but lies, but they are pretty lies, tempting lies of an easy life via Socialism/Marxism and now even via the iron fist of leftist Fascism. Wild eh? Anyone that's studied and comprehended 20th Century world history KNOWS that this leads to gulags and rehabilitation camps and to EVERYONE but Party elites and a certain type and level of thuggish governmental enforcers living like impoverished serfs . . . which is why today's indoctrinate youth has got absolutely no use for genuine history study or for the U.S. Constitution or even -- now -- for the true rule of law versus selected and corrupted leftist manipulations of the rule of law. So forth and so on.