Steyn also echoes the sentiments of Gabriel and cites "cultural indolence" as a reason for Western decline. He wrote, "the sack of Rome was the symptom of the fall of the empire rather than the cause." Moral decay will be the cause of the West's fall. The symptom—the comparison to the sack of Rome—is a Muslim "invasion" of Europe and changing demographic tides. However, internal weakness due to declining religiosity makes Europe too weak to fend off Muslim attacks. … Thus, moral decay leads to secularism, which is defined for white nationalists as an increasing tempo of religious switching from Christianity to religiously unaffiliated.

DEFINE: Glosses how white nationalists redefine secularism as religious switching away from Christianity, which differs from common usage.

Margaret Hodson, Baby Jihad, loc. 52