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The Enemy Is the Last God
The Last God
A civilization may stop believing in God long before it stops needing gods.
The temples can empty. Ritual can fade into private habit. Priests can become cultural relics. Yet the deeper human demands remain: the need to suffer for something, to belong to a people, to name evil, to distinguish innocence from corruption, to believe that history moves toward judgment.
Modern societies often mistake the weakening of religion for the disappearance of the sacred. But the sacred rarely disappears. It migrates.
It enters politics. It attaches itself to nation, blood, grievance, memory…
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