Classic rejection of a works-based worldview, that one can control this or that. Religions with mystic traditions (e.g. Catholic, Pentecostal, Sufist etc., possible the 12 steps/traditions) affirm that trust in something other than self-will, by letting go of the impositions of the past and need to control the future, incarnates a rebirth or higher connection. 

It is ineveitable that  people will turn to these systems in a secular, atheistic society as neither can bear the weight of existence. Where once religions/spirituality helped us endure a life of suffering, it helps endure a life of paranoia and neurotic overload.