In the Western world we have reached a “democracy devoid of the sacred.” Some will reply, resorting to a standard rhetorical device, that this is precisely the progress. This kind of democracy marks the transition to an “open society,” which accepts and respects all forms of thought and enables religion to become purer by separating politics from religion, and so on. In actuality, this democracy “devoid of the sacred” coincides with absolute atheism.
