Same here. I was not only not particularly religious, despite having a Christian family and upbringing... albeit not with any particular organized religion.... I was politically unaware. Oddly enough, the spiritual awareness occurred about the same time I became politically active and aware. Go figure.
I admit it is subjective, but I don't know a single Christian who didn't have a misspent yoot.
Several of my friends did hard time, many of them have seen the inside of County (including me), and *none* could claim to be ignorant of the back seat of a squad car.
To a degree, that is because kind finds kind, but the general premise that no one needs salvation in their own mind until they have created a severe train wreck in their own lives, cannot be denied...
And it is a whole lot more messy than the world would prefer to suppose. Most of them ol boys sitting in the pews have battle scars from their time in the world.
But there is an aspect to the OP that is pretty true.Most Christians don't get that they are in a war - A real and tangible war, right here on this physical plane. "New Age' is old as the hills, And Satanism in myriad form stalks Christians directly.
It is not uncommon to find curses and talismans hidden in churches - Effective counter operations that nearly the entirety of Christendom have become oblivious to. They have largely been taught to ignore the metaphysical, and that is a dire mistake.