Collectivism And God

People need meaning in their lives, and the decline in faith and uptick in socialism mark a very dangerous shift in that search. The West is losing faith in God, individual responsibility, and the institutions that restrain our worst tendencies. In their place, an increasingly secular culture is bending the knee toward collectivist ideas. Collectivism falsely promises to solve problems that neither human beings nor traditional institutions have. In doing so, it completely forgoes history’s lessons. As a belief in God declines, people are not abandoning a desire to believe in something larger than themselves; instead, they are looking to...