Sigh. “Systemic Godlessness”.
Satan is the “father of lies”. And the “author of confusion”.
And there is plenty of both, catalogued in this well-written review.
When faith in science has exhausted all hope of meaning or purpose in this existence, it inevitably and predictably turns to mysticism (aka, “Whateverism” — the belief in something, nothing, anything, everything — as long as it’s not the Biblical God).
When the pursuit of sexual license has grown stale, become boring, turned perfunctory and prosaic —
there’s alway war.
When people abandon faith in the Living God —
it never ends well.
But man, can it ever be banal and dull.