This is exactly what happened to the Church in the 1970s and into the 1980s. Capitalists (and the broader commercial culture they fueled) helped sow chaos in its theology while handing over sacred holidays and moral territory to secular consumerism. I grew up in the middle of that shift, and in hindsight the damage is obvious. You seem shortsighted about what Hegseth is actually contending with—I know what that looks like from experience. Plenty of these men don’t call it out because they didn’t live through the transition. I’m old enough to remember what was done to conservative Christian culture. Concrete examples: 1. After Roe v. Wade (1973), abortion became a normalized commercial and cultural fact that many mainline churches accommodated or soft-pedaled rather than consistently opposed, fragmenting Protestant and Catholic responses. 2. The LGBTQ movement accelerated in the same era (building on late-’60s/’70s activism), with churches increasingly pressured to revise doctrine on sexuality and marriage. 3. Halloween (All Hallows’ Eve) and Christmas were heavily commercialized—Halloween into a candy-and-costume industry and Christmas into a shopping and Santa-driven spectacle largely detached from the Incarnation. These weren’t abstract “secularization” processes; they were market-driven and culturally enforced. If you’ve grown used to the broader retreat of traditional masculinity and institutional confidence in this country, it can make the already weakened Church look more fragile than it needs to be. Buck up.