Exploring how ideologies and social movements can function like religions, this chapter emphasizes the dangers of false idols and argues for an authentic religious revival to free society from their enslavement.
“Over half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia [in the 20th century]: ‘Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.’” Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, 1983 Templeton Address Is secularization a sign […]
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Do we Need God? – The Loss of God and the Decay of Society first appeared on
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