“With the death of God, intellectuals thought that they would achieve autonomy and total human freedom. But the death of God led, in fact, to the death of freedom and obscured a correct concept of the human being. God is the one and only compass that can orient us toward happiness.” — Cardinal Robert Sarah
Cardinal Sarah is talking about one of the great paradoxes of modern history. And if you’re paying attention, you can see it playing out right now.
When Nietzsche came down from his pedestal to proclaim to us simple minded folk that “God is dead”, he wasn’t just trying to be edgy. He was diagnosing Western culture. The uniting Christian framework that held everything together—meaning, morality, Truth, the very concept of the human person—had dissolved. The Enlightenment intellectuals saw this collapse coming and thought, “Finally! We can be free!”
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