Chris Hedges: After Religion Fizzles, We’re Stuck With Nietzsche

Religious institutions "have failed to unequivocally denounce unfettered capitalism, globalization and pre-emptive war. The obsession with personal piety and “How-is-it-with-me?” spirituality that permeates most congregations is narcissism. [...] But I cannot rejoice in the collapse of these institutions. We are not going to be saved by faith in reason, science and technology, which the dead zone of oil forming in the Gulf of Mexico and our production of costly and redundant weapons systems illustrate. Frederick Nietzsche’s Übermensch, or “Superman”—our secular religion—is as fantasy-driven as religious magical thinking."

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/after_religion_fizzles_were_stuck_with_nietzsche_20100510/