In the previous centuries, people probably did earnestly believe...
Nowadays you have science and the overlooking and/or misinterpreting of scripture.
"Oh God does not mean XYZ, he just said that because of x"
Materialism, this sense that the modern man is higher and freer...
People look at the previous generations with contempt.
Television has made the younger generations believe themselves to be more interesting, beautiful, funny, cool, youthful, etc.
It has infected the modern human into perceiving everything more benignly, they have become more open and accepting of various liberal diseases (i.e. homosexuality), etc.
Facebook memes have done great destruction, the photo reel of degeneracy and frivolity.
A quasi-laid back approach has become the truest approach, the nihilistic approach as nurtured by a sense of freedom to iniquity (provided that this iniquity doesn't infringe upon the liberties of another).
The rational mind of the modern man is the irrational idea that every thing has a rational explanation.
If rationality doesn't save the day, epistemological nihilism does.
All of these diseases at least somewhat underly the modern human.
Some only see the church as a means to an end, the end being a sense of community and belonging.
