In the 20th century Man cast off his Masters:armed with Science, he found nothing of God, and decreed that talk of God shall be kept private; he exalted the individual and set about extricating himself from the bonds of community. He declared himself Free, having shrugged off both God and community.
But every man requires a master; every man seeks worship and to stand in awe of the divine. Having annihilated the bonds that stretch back to the first campfire and the first contemplation of the stars, he builds shrines to our modern idols-greed, the political party, and race.