Surely the world and church are being prepared for the Antichrist and his world religion. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn identified the root cause of moral decline in the Western world as “self-deification of man as supreme…a rationalistic humanism…[that makes man] the center of everything.” Historian Herbert Schlossberg, warning of the consequences of this growing delusion, suggests that it is reaching a climax in our day:
“Exalting mankind to the status of deity dates from the furthest reaches of antiquity, but its development into an ideology embracing the masses is a characteristic trait of modernity.”