His pattern of behavior is prescribed by what is done in general. He shifts the responsibility for his behavior upon an impersonal society. And this society, in turn, seems to be ruled by the robot, the electronic brain, by bureaucracy fashion, organization and other impersonal powers. As a result, our contemporary society has no room for human personality, and for a real spiritual communion of person with person. Even the family and the church often can no longer guarantee a sphere of personal intercourse.
Family life is, to a large degree, dislocated by increasing industrialization.
The church itself is confronted with the danger of the depersonalization of congregational life, especially in the big cities. In addition, the average, secularized man nowadays has lost any and all true interest in religion. He has lost all his faith, and denies any higher ideals than the satisfaction of his appetites. Even the Humanistic faith in mankind, and in the power of human reason to rule the world and to elevate man to a higher level of freedom and morality, has no longer any appeal to the mind of the present day mass-man. To him God is dead, and the two worlds wars have destroyed the Humanistic ideal of man.