The difference between the "sane" world I grew up prior to 1964 or so, and the world we inhabit today, is the widespread heresy of universalism that has taken over the world in a manner like AIDS, herpes, BO, crabgrass, kudzu, and tattoos and facial hair.
That is to say, the average person, religious or not, of 60 years ago, believed that there indeed was a Hell, and that if you did not do something to avoid it, you were most likely going there.
With Vatican 2 and all the other bullshit that coincided with it, belief in Hell just dissolved from Western Culture.
Eastern Culture, I don't know, they may or may not have ever had any concept of hell.
But what we were left with was Secular Humanism which is awful, and resembles Hallmark Cards and other such drivel.
Most pastors dropped Hell from their sermons because they were afraid of dropping collections from scared-away flocks; but the opposite happened.
I mean, after all, what good is a religion if it doesn't threaten you with eternal burning in a place of complete misery and abandonment?
So that is where we are. Cities filled with feral homies who kill for fun and loot for whatever other needs they have. Sacred and secular institutions filled with the corrupt and worthless. Pervs trying to capture and molest the innocent children. Law and the judiciary a total cesspool of evil and corruption.
And things are getting worse by the minute.
The cure is simple: Preachers and priests immediately preach fire and brimstone from the pulpit. Scare the bowels out of the rank and file in your flocks. Things will get better right away.
Some Eastern cultures have Karma.
It can be very nasty.