Sekularisme ialah satu kepimpinan intelek kerana ia memimpin dan mengarahkan kehidupan orang yang menganutinya. Ia menentukan pandangan terhadap kehidupan dan menetapkan cara hidup baginya. Adapun pandangan sekularisme, ia dibina di atas asas utilitarianisme (mencari manfaat) kerana ia memandang kehidupan sebagai kegunaan semata-mata, hanya melihat kebahagiaan dunia dan bukan kebahagiaan di Akhirat. Ia hanya melihat pencapaian nafsu keseronokan dan kenikmatan hedonistik melalui kesenangan jasmani. Ia tidak melihat nilai pada apa-apa selain nilai kebendaan. Ia tidak mempunyai nilai kerohanian, moral atau kemanusiaan. Adapun cara hidup yang dipimpin dan diarahkan sekularisme kepada para penganutnya ialah gaya hidup yang mewakili kebebasan dan individualisme.

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.

Sekularisme sebagai kepimpinan intelektual telah gagal kerana ia tidak memberikan manusia kebahagiaan yang sebenar. Mereka yang menganutinya tidak mendapati ketenangan dan ketenteraman. Kepimpinan intelektual ini telah menimpakan malapetaka ke atas bangsa-bangsa dan rakyat dengan pandangan utilitarian dan cara hidup yang serba boleh. Sepanjang masanya, umat manusia telah menyaksikan perang dunia, kem tahanan Nazi dan fasis, jenayah terancang, kemiskinan berjuta-juta orang dan kebuluran hingga mati. Kepimpinan intelektual ini juga membawa penyakit psikologi, seperti kemurungan, dan penyakit fizikal, seperti AIDS. Pornografi turut berleluasa, yang mengakibatkan keruntuhan ikatan masyarakat dan keluarga, melahirkan budaya rogol dan keganasan terhadap wanita. Ia juga memupuk idea bunuh diri.

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.

Oleh itu, kepimpinan intelektual Barat ialah kepimpinan yang gagal, dari segi teori dan juga praktikal, sebagaimana diakui oleh bangsanya sendiri. Dalam kritikan yang tajam dan berterusan dalam buku mereka, Acts of Faith- Explaining the Human Side of Religion, ahli sosiologi Rodney Stark dan Roger Finke mencadangkan bahawa sudah tiba masanya untuk mengebumikan tesis sekularisasi, "Selepas hampir tiga abad ramalan yang gagal sama sekali dan salah tafsir terhadap kedua-dua masa kini dan masa lampau, nampaknya sudah tiba masanya untuk membawa doktrin sekularisasi ke tanah perkuburan teori-teori yang gagal, dan di sana berbisik 'requiescat in pace' (semoga roh beristirehat dengan aman)."

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).’”