For the past two hundred years, atheists have been
loudly asserting that the dismissal of God will lead to human liberation. I
would strenuously argue precisely the contrary. Once the human being is
untethered from God, he becomes, in very short order, an object among objects,
and hence susceptible to the grossest manipulation by the powerful and the
self-interested.
--Robert Barron, Vibrant
Paradoxes: The Both/And of Catholicism
