Episode 3010: Utopia Without Christ - The Great Deception

Utopia Without God: The Great Deception
Opening Prayer (Walt):
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.
O Lord, we place our trust in Thee alone. Deliver us from the snares of deception, from false hopes and false saviors. Inflame our hearts with the light of Truth, that we may not falter in this present darkness. Through Christ our King and Savior, Amen.
Walt:
I heard an excellent podcast by Michael Matt and if you don’t mind I want to both provide you with the snipets but also add to it.
The theme in this episode titled Utopia Without God: The Great Deception closely parallel the biblical story of the Tower of Babel (Genesis 11:1–9) in several ways. Both narratives warn against the dangers of human ambition divorced from God, the temptation to build a world without reliance on divine authority, and the false promises of utopianism.
1. Babel & The Technocratic Utopia: A Man-Made Heaven Without God
In the Tower of Babel, humanity sought to build a tower to the heavens, motivated by pride and self-sufficiency. Their goal was not to glorify God, but to “make a name for themselves” (Genesis 11:4). Similarly, the essay warns of a modern movement that envisions a technological utopia one where science, AI, and material abundance replace the need for faith, moral law, and divine providence.
Those today that maybe fighting against some societal evils, are still promoting a world built by human ingenuity alone, rather than by faith in Christ. This mirrors Babel: humanity's attempt to create paradise apart from God, rather than under His kingship.
2. Pride & Self-Exaltation: "You Will Be Like Gods"
Babel was rooted in pride, the same sin that led to the fall of Lucifer and Adam & Eve. In the Garden, the serpent tempted Eve by saying, "You will be like gods" (Genesis 3:5). The essay suggests that secular billionaires and global elites promise the same deception: a future where we control reality through science, technology, and human will, rather than submitting to the sovereignty of Christ.
Musk’s promise of "sustainable abundance", where people can "have anything they want," eerily echoes the serpent’s temptation a vision of self-fulfillment without God. The essay sees this as a continuation of the Antichrist's deception, where humanitarian progress is used as a tool to draw people away from God.
3. The Consequence of a Christless Society: Division & Collapse
God confused the languages at Babel and scattered the people because their unity was built on rebellion against Him. The essay warns that a similar fate awaits a world that seeks unity without Christ. The so-called "solutions" proposed by modern elites transhumanism, artificial intelligence, and hyper-technological living may promise peace and progress, but they ultimately divide and dehumanize.
The essay argues that true unity can only come through Christ the King, not through technology or politics. Otherwise, society will fragment, much like Babel, into chaos, oppression, and eventually collapse.
4. False Saviors: The Secular "Messiahs" vs. Christ the King
The people of Babel believed in their own strength, just as the modern world places its hope in secular leaders. The essay critiques Christians who idolize figures like Elon Musk or Peter Thiel simply because they oppose "wokeness," while failing to acknowledge their absence of faith and moral foundation.
The lesson from Babel is clear: when man places his faith in himself, in science, or in worldly power, rather than in God, he is doomed to failure. True salvation cannot come from billionaires, politicians, or artificial intelligence but only from Christ the King.
5. The Call to Resistance: Choosing Christ Over the World
Just as Babel fell, so too will every kingdom built without God. The essay calls for a return to true Christian fidelity, modeled after saints like St. Thomas More, St. Maximilian Kolbe, and Fritz Gerlich men who stood firm in the face of evil, choosing martyrdom over compromise.
Rather than seeking political or technological salvation, the essay urges Catholics to build a true Christian resistance:
• Faithful families
• Frequent reception of the sacraments
• Defending traditional Catholic teaching
• Rejecting the false promises of a godless world order
Like in Babel, where God’s judgment came when man overstepped his bounds, the essay suggests that our modern world is racing toward a similar reckoning.
The Choice Before Us
The Tower of Babel both highlight the fundamental choice before mankind:
1. Trust in human power, technological advancement, and secular "progress" which leads to rebellion and collapse.
2. Trust in Christ the King, the true source of order, salvation, and eternal life.
Just as Babel was a warning against human arrogance, the essay warns against placing our hopes in earthly leaders, rather than in Christ. Ultimately, the message is clear: A utopia without God is no utopia at all it is a deception leading to destruction.
You’ve heard me say in the past that my order is God – Church – Family – Country. I also said I maybe a conservative but I am not a Republican. I look at our leaders through the lens of our Church and our magisterial teaching. Although I am a huge fan of this current administration in their efforts to get rid of woke, wasteful spending and making America strong and great again, I must ask the question where is Christ in any of this and why are we not saying MACA (Make America Christ Again). Our help is in the name of the Lord… That’s what our Church Teaching and Sacred Scripture tells us. But lately, it seems we've rewritten the psalm. Our help, apparently, is now in the name of people like Elon Musk… or Peter Thiel… or whatever secular billionaire says the things we like to hear. Although I absolutely applaud what they are doing for our country with the selfless commitment they are providing, but they are not with Christ. And that, friends, is a HUGE problem.
Peter Thiel proudly proclaims: “I am proud to be gay. I am proud to be a Republican. And above all, I am proud to be an American.” But where is Christ in any of that? No mention of faith. No repentance. Just pride and pride in what opposes the moral order established by God Himself.
And then there's Elon Musk. Sure, he speaks out against the woke agenda and we agree, it must be opposed. But Musk isn’t a Christian let alone a Catholic. He doesn’t claim to be. He doesn’t believe in the necessity of marriage, in the sanctity of human life, or the Kingship of Christ. His vision is entirely this-worldly. It's not heavenly. It's not Catholic.
His grandfather was the head of Technocracy, Inc. in Canada a movement to replace political systems with rule by scientists. And Musk seems to be following in that lineage. Not to raise man to God, but to raise man above man, using technology as the tower of Babel all over again.
This is not a return to Christendom. This is a techno-utopia… one in which robots make your tea, mow your lawn, raise your children. And while it may seem futuristic, efficient, even “cool,” it is inherently anti-human. Why? Because it’s anti-incarnational. It denies the sacredness of human presence, of human relationships, and of the family.
He says the future is one where “you can have anything you want.” And that sounds a lot like the first lie ever told in Eden: “You will be like gods.”
Where is God in this vision? Nowhere.
And yet, so many Christians are applauding it. Praising Musk as the man of the hour. Just because he’s not woke. But not being woke doesn’t mean being with Christ.
This is the seduction. We’re desperate for leadership. We came out of the COVID lockdowns, censorship, government overreach things we thought we’d never see in the United States. And so, when someone with power and influence opposes that, we’re tempted to run to them. But without Christ, it’s just another revolution.
Think of the Bolsheviks. Think of the Nazis. It always starts with a promise: we will restore your dignity. We will make life better. And it ends with terror, control, and blood.
And Musk? He’s promising “sustainable abundance.” A world where you can literally have anything you want. That is not the Gospel. That is not Catholicism. That is not the Cross.
This is why we must turn to models of real Catholic resistance, men like Fritz Gerlich.
Gerlich wasn’t always a saint. He was a Protestant. A conservative. A skeptic. But he had an encounter that changed everything: he visited the mystic Therese Neumann in Bavaria. He went to expose her as a fraud… and left convinced of her sanctity. He converted to the Catholic faith. And from that point on, he could not be swayed.
He used his newspaper to openly attack Hitler calling out the evil of National Socialism long before it was popular to do so. He warned about racism, anti-Semitism, and moral collapse. And it cost him his life. He was arrested, tortured, and executed at Dachau in 1934. One of the first victims of the Nazi regime.
He died not for politics, but for Christ the King.
And that’s the model. Not picking sides between the lesser of two evils. Not becoming cheerleaders for secular saviors. But standing alone if necessary, in the truth, with Christ and His Church.
People say, “Well, come on, what else do you expect us to do? Musk is fighting the woke.” I agree with much of what he says about the leftist agenda. But his solution is a false one.
We don’t need robots and abundance. We need repentance and grace.
This is the deception Bishop Fulton Sheen warned us about: the Antichrist will come as a humanitarian, speaking of peace and prosperity, tolerance and progress, but all divorced from God. He will even invoke Christ’s name, but only to undermine Him. And he will lead many astray.
Here's the powerful quote from Venerable Fulton J. Sheen that is often referenced when warning about the deception of the Antichrist and the false promise of a Christless utopia:
“The Antichrist will not be so called; otherwise he would have no followers. He will wear no red tights, nor vomit sulfur, nor carry a trident, nor wave an arrowed tail as the Mephistopheles in Faust. Nowhere in Sacred Scripture do we find a warrant for the popular mythologies of the devil which have made the devil an object of laughter in order to make us disbelieve in him.

When no man recognizes him, the more power he exercises. God has defined Himself as ‘I am Who am,’ and the Devil as ‘I am who am not.’ Nowhere does he appear so well as when he is denied.

He will come disguised as the Great Humanitarian. He will talk peace, prosperity, and plenty not as means to lead us to God, but as ends in themselves.

He will write books on the new idea of God to suit the way people live. He will induce faith in astrology so as to make not the will but the stars responsible for our sins.

He will explain guilt away psychologically as repressed sex, make men shrink in shame if their fellow men say they are not open-minded and liberal.

He will identify tolerance with indifference to right and wrong, truth and error.

He will foster more divorces under the disguise that another partner is ‘vital.’ He will increase love for love and decrease love for person.

He will invoke religion to destroy religion.

He will even speak of Christ and say that He was the greatest man who ever lived.

His mission, he will say, will be to liberate men from the servitudes of superstition and Fascism.

Then, in the name of freedom and liberty he will set up a dictatorship. But never will he call it a dictatorship.

In the midst of all his seeming love for humanity and his glib talk of freedom and equality, he will have one great secret which he will tell to no one: he will not believe in God.”
— Venerable Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, “Communism and the Conscience of the West,” 1948
What if that’s where we are right now?
We live in a virulently anti-Christian world. And the would-be saviors on offer are just that would-be. They don’t love Christ. They don’t obey Him. And they will not lead us back to Him.
They may be the lesser of two evils. But they are still evil.
That’s why we need courage. And community. And faith like our fathers had.
Like St. Thomas More. Like the Carmelite martyrs. Like St. Maximilian Kolbe. And yes, like Fritz Gerlich. Men and women who didn’t choose sides they chose Christ. They paid the price. And they wore the crown.
We must prepare for catacombs. For suffering. For silence. And we must start now.
That doesn’t mean retreat from the world. It means standing in the world as a Catholic. Speaking truth. Practicing charity. Rejecting error. Not idolizing men who oppose the Gospel.
We must build up strong families. Receive the sacraments frequently. Defend the Traditional Latin Mass. Cling to the Rosary. And train our hearts for martyrdom if that’s what it comes to.
I’ll say it plainly. We may not have a political option much longer. But that's okay. Because fidelity to Christ the King matters more than a seat at any earthly table.
And I say this not to scare you, but to encourage you. The Church is alive. The truth has not changed. And Our Lord still reigns whether the world acknowledges Him or not.
But we must decide: where is our hope? In the name of the Lord? Or in the name of our elected officials?
Let’s get that answer right. For the sake of our children. For the salvation of our souls.
Closing Thoughts
In an age where Catholics are tempted to place their hope in secular visionaries and men who openly reject the moral law of God and offer a godless utopia built on robotics, abundance, and self-will we must sound the alarm: this is not a reboot of society, but a rebellion against Christ the King. The true Catholic reboot doesn’t lie in technology or political revolution, but in the restoration of the moral and social reign of Jesus Christ beginning in our homes, parishes, and hearts. We don’t need robots to bring grandma tea we need grace to bring her love. We don’t need saviors from Silicon Valley we need saints. And we must reject the false peace and false promises of a new world order that glorifies man while denying God. The Catholic reboot is fidelity, tradition, sacrifice, and the Cross and in that alone is our true restoration.
Closing Prayer (Walt):
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us. Strengthen our faith. Make us men and women of courage in this hour. Protect us under Thy Kingship and give us the grace to never deny Thee, even if it costs us everything.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost. Amen.