Ellul on Faith and Liberation

The fight of faith to which we are committed is not a fight against man.  It is not a question of destroying him, of convincing him that he is wrong.  It is a fight for his freedom.  Reinserted into a sacred, a prisoner of his myths, he is completely alienated in his neoreligions—this brave “modern man.” Every religion is both necessary and alienating.  To smash these idols, to desacralize these mysteries, to assert the falseness of these religions is to undertake the one, finally indispensable liberation of the person of our times.

- Jacques Ellul (The New Demons, 1975).