For millennia, humans used faith as a guide to understanding the world. Even pagans and heathens had folktales that warned of the many consequences of hubris.
Shorn of religion in a world of material comforts, many people will not have the courage to accept the full measure of what skepticism means in a secular context. Hume, Kant, and Nietzsche understood, but their standards were a bit higher than those of modern self-worshipers.
The “morality play” of today seems to consist of denying reality or that you’re free to create your own reality.
But as Kipling tried to warn us...
” And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return! “
From “The Gods of the copybook headings”.