Who Killed God? The Spiritual Cost of Modern Progress
6/18/202629 min
What happens when a civilization removes God—but keeps searching for meaning?
In this episode of Decoded, Elisabeth McKay explores one of the most important cultural questions of our time: Who killed God?
This is not about religion versus atheism. It's a deeper examination of how modern society gradually replaced transcendence with human-centered systems—and what happened as a result.
From the Enlightenment and the French Revolution to Darwin, Freud, Marx, modern psychology, consumer culture, and the rise of self-worship, Elisabeth traces the historical and psychological shifts that transformed how we understand morality, suffering, purpose, identity, and death.
In this episode:
- The Enlightenment and the rise of secularism
- Why Nietzsche warned that "God is dead"
- The Prosperity Paradox and modern hedonism
- How comfort replaced dependence on transcendence
- Why identity became the new religion
- The psychological consequences of moral relativism
- The sexual revolution and the commodification of the self
- Why modern mental health feels incomplete
- Death, meaning, and the loss of spiritual frameworks
- What happens when suffering no longer has purpose
This is an invitation to ask deeper questions about meaning, morality, suffering, purpose, and the spiritual foundations that shape human life.
Because the question may not be who killed God. The question may be what dies in a civilization when God becomes unnecessary.
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First 90 secondsBizzie Gold· Host0:00
Do you currently have a framework that allows you to understand your personal suffering and trials and tribulations to build resilience rather than compound your suffering? If you don't, that is likely a byproduct of secularism. That is a byproduct of refusing to acknowledge that there is a spiritual foundation to the world in which we live, and if you don't acknowledge that, something will always feel off. Your brain is wired for deception, but here's the truth. Patterns can be broken. The code can be rewritten. Once you hear the truth, you can't go back. So the only question is, are you ready to listen? There's something deeply unsettling happening in modern society. We're more technologically advanced than any civilization in human history. We can extend our lifespan, we can optimize productivity, medicate symptoms, we engineer everything for convenience, and we have access to information instantly. We are richer, safer, and more educated, and more connected to each other than most humans have ever lived. And yet people are exhausted. They're anxious, they are spiritually unanchored, they are terrified of death, they're desperate for meaning, and they are addicted to distraction. Despite all of our progress, something is missing. Maybe the most dangerous thing that modern civilization ever did wasn't killing God outright, but slowly building a world where God