If you look for God in the new religion, you will not find him. It is not a theistic religion, but an idolatrous one. Even if you start looking for false gods along the lines of the kind you may be inclined to associate with idolatrous religions, your efforts are likely to come up short as well. Although it ultimately bears a lot in common with other idolatrous religions, it is distinctly different in numerous ways, not least when it comes to the object of its worship. It certainly has an object of worship, however, and it certainly has false gods. It is a religion after all, not just an ideology, a system of values, or an intellectual movement. You just need to look a little less outwards. You just need to start conflating the worshipper with the worshipped. You just need to blur the lines between the individual and the collective. You just need to put a modern and humanistic spin on mankind's age-old propensity to put something or other on a pedestal.

Welcome to the twenty-first century's unique take on going a whoring after other gods. Welcome to contemporary man's iteration on making a religion out of his waywardness and his going astray. Welcome to the Western world's preferred way to turn a lack of groundedness into an ideology that is rather more than an ideology, a set of values that is rather more that a set of values, and a movement that is rather more than a movement. Welcome, in other words, to the religion of worshipping the creature: the religion of the veneration of man.