by Wallace Garneau, America Outloud:
Western civilization is in a phase of rebellion. We’ve connected emotionally to the idea that we can explain much of the world without God, but we lack the maturity to understand that civilization cannot exist without His morality.
The question is whether our civilization will commit suicide before realizing that we need a moral purpose greater than ourselves.
I am not saying that atheists need to repent and pray, but I am saying civilizations need shared moral frameworks, and the nature of the moral framework will determine the character of the civilization. Our society was built on the Judeo-Christian moral framework, and without it, it will collapse.
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Can we preserve our civilization by returning to Judeo-Christian morals? The jury is still out, but it’s clear that we haven’t outgrown God so much as we are rebelling against Him.
The Death of God: When the West Chose Rebellion
Friedrich Nietzsche’s declaration that “God is dead, and we have killed Him” is often misunderstood. It was not a celebration, but a warning.
Nietzsche saw clearly that Western morality, meaning, and order had been built on the assumption that God is real. He feared what would follow once that foundation was removed. To him, the death of God was not a liberation, but a civilizational earthquake. It would unleash chaos, relativism, and eventually nihilism. Without God, Nietzsche warned, we would drift unmoored.
He was right.
The Enlightenment, for all its celebration of reason, was not a rejection of God. It was a synthesis. It married Greek logic with Judeo-Christian ethics. It held that truth could be discovered, but goodness had been revealed.
Even among those who rejected belief in God, there remained deep reverence for the Bible as a moral and cultural foundation. Thomas Jefferson created a version of the Bible that removed all references to miracles. What he preserved was the ethical core, especially the teachings of Jesus.
Critics often point to the violence in the Old Testament as cause to reject the New, but every divine judgment took place in a specific time and place, far removed from our own.
The laws given to Moses fell into three categories: moral laws (which Christians share), ceremonial laws (which set the Jewish people apart), and civil laws (which governed ancient Israel as a nation). While some Jewish people still observe the ceremonial laws, even modern Israel does not follow the civil code, and though these laws may seem strange today, they may well have made sense in Ancient Israel, thousands of years ago.
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