Friedrich Nietzsche famously said “GOD IS DEAD” which is a phrase commonly misused and misrepresented. It essentially meant, during his time, that with advancing science there would be less adherence to God’s order and more demand for rigid, totalitarian systems created by man. Fyodor Dostoevsky suggested the same thing, and both men posited correctly the trend toward authoritarianism decades before communism overthrew Russia. They believed that a political and spiritual danger therefore existed and that the results would be brutality far exceeding religion, monarchy, and paganism.

Nietzsche suggested that a ‘higher person’ would need to evolve with their own new sense of moral rights and wrongs. Jordan Peterson points out that this is not the full solution since there is in some sense a sort of morality and value that is not confined to subjective classifications.

This is where fundamentalist conservative types, who believe there are limits to man’s power, and progressive liberal ideologies, who believe God is flawed, greatly differ. In fact, it is the GOD IS FLAWED argument that is more dangerous than the DEAD one, mostly because a flawed God can be paraded around as a symbol of imperfection which the cults of ideology can fix and replace: this is progressivism and technocracy today. Such viewpoints demand total obedience in order to create a new world and better man, which is not so dissimilar to the Nazi idea of a Master Race, or the Jewish idea of a Chosen People. But imperfection is perfection, as it is the beauty of individualism rather than collectivization - see the Japanese concept of Wabi Sabi.

Suggesting that there is a way to reach utopia, or earthly heaven, let alone that there is only one road to utopia, is incredibly dangerous. It is predicated on class wars of various kinds, from wealth to race and so on. It erects barriers to achievement, responsibility, discipline, logic, and it prevents people from attaining self sufficiency. It makes people reliant. It is a system founded on sloth, pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, and wrath, if you ask questions. It suggests that power, wealth, sex, etc., are owed to the individual by birth and that there is no need for thought, responsibility, work, and the like. It leads to eugenics and genocide, because when one isolated group (whites, blacks, jews, etc.,) can be blamed for personal internal problems, any and all means can be justified to eliminate that group.