Today the West lives as if God did not exist . . . This estrangement from God is not caused by reasoning but by a will to be detached from him. The atheistic orientation of a life is almost always a decision by the will. Man no longer wishes to reflect on his relationship to God because he himself intends to become God.
Cardinal Robert Sarah offered this stark analysis of the present crisis of the West in his 2015 book God or Nothing, in which he zeroes in on the nature of the contemporary loss of faith. It is, he says, the result of the choice to replace the worship of God and obedience to his law with self-worship and the anarchy-producing rejection of any limits upon one’s actions.
Of course, when man tries to become God, he always fails. No one can make himself into the Supreme Being and Creator. But he can attempt to give the impression of omnipotence by disregarding God’s law and daring anyone to stop him. Thus, people exempt themselves from the Seventh Commandment as they pile into duffle bags items they are stealing from CVS or Walmart. Crime and social anarchy are the predictable outcome when people are emboldened to decide for themselves what is right and what is wrong.
Cardinal Sarah observes that “the eclipse of God leads toward practical materialism, disorderly or abusive consumption, and the creation of false moral norms. Material well-being and immediate satisfaction become the only reason for living. At the end of this process, it is no longer even about fighting God; Christ and the Father are ignored.”
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