First, the government replaced God.
Now, therapy has replaced religion.
It’s not just a shift in institutions, it’s a sign of something deeper. Something breaking.
Where people once looked to faith, tradition, ritual, and community, they now turn to state bureaucracy and clinical interventions.
Both offer a kind of promise: structure, safety, answers.
But neither can offer meaning.
A society that places all its faith in government ends up overregulated, micromanaged, and infantilized.
A society that places all its healing in therapy ends up self-obsessed, fragmented, and perpetually in recovery.
We’ve built a culture where feelings are sovereign, discomfort is trauma, and victimhood is currency.
Where spiritual growth is replaced by self-optimization.
Where confession has become a diagnosis.
And penance? A prescription.
That’s not to say therapy is bad. Or that mental health doesn’t matter.
But that’s not healing.
That’s collapse.
We don’t need more coping mechanisms.
We need anchors.
We need families, communities, beliefs, limits, and responsibility.
We need tradition and transcendence, not just another professional service.
Because what we’re seeing now isn’t just a mental health crisis.
It’s a meaning crisis.
And no amount of SSRIs can fill that gap in your heart.