Usekula ni uongozi wa kifikra kwa sababu unaongoza na kuelekeza maisha ya yule anayeukubali. Unaeleza mtazamo wake kuhusu maisha na kumwekea njia ya maisha. Kwa upande wa mtazamo wa usekula, umejengwa juu ya msingi wa utumiaji (kutafuta manufaa), kwani unaona maisha kama manufaa, ukiona furaha ya dunia tu na si furaha ya Akhera. Unaona tu kufikia hamu ya starehe na burudani ya kimwili kupitia raha za mwili. Hauoni thamani yoyote isipokuwa thamani ya kimaada. Hauna thamani za kiroho, kimaadili wala za kibinadamu. Kwa upande wa njia ya maisha ambayo usekula unawaongoza na kuwaelekeza wale wanaoukubali, ni mtindo wa maisha unaowakilisha uhuru na ubinafsi.

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.

Usekularism kama uongozi wa kifikra umeshindwa kwa sababu haukuwapa wanadamu furaha ya kweli. Wale wanaouchukua hawakupata utulivu na amani ya moyo. Uongozi huu wa kifikra umeleta maafa kwa mataifa na watu kwa mtazamo wake wa kimatumizi na mtindo wa maisha wa kuachia kila kitu. Katika kipindi chake, binadamu ameshuhudia vita vya dunia, kambi za mateso za Wanazi na za kifashisti, uhalifu uliopangwa, umaskini wa mamilioni ya watu na njaa iliyosababisha vifo. Uongozi huu wa kifikra pia umeleta magonjwa ya kisaikolojia, kama vile msongo wa mawazo (depression), na magonjwa ya kimwili, kama vile UKIMWI. Ponografia imeenea kila mahali, jambo lililosababisha kuvunjika kwa mahusiano ya kijamii na kifamilia, kuzaa utamaduni wa ubakaji na unyanyasaji dhidi ya wanawake. Pia umeendeleza wazo la kujiua.

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.

Kwa hiyo, uongozi wa kiakili wa Magharibi ni uongozi uliofeli, kinadharia na kivitendo, kama unavyothibitishwa na watu wake wenyewe. Katika ukosoaji mkali na endelevu katika kitabu chao, Acts of Faith- Explaining the Human Side of Religion, wanasosholojia Rodney Stark na Roger Finke wanapendekeza kwamba ni wakati wa kuzika nadharia ya usekulazi, "Baada ya karibu karne tatu za utabiri uliofeli kabisa na upotoshaji wa hali ya sasa na ya zamani, inaonekana ni wakati wa kupeleka fundisho la usekulazi kwenye makaburi ya nadharia zilizofeli, na huko kunong'ona 'requiescat in pace, (apumzike kwa amani).'"

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).’”