nobody is actually crucified; but the scrupulous man may still find the his consolation has to be that his God has broken his life to give it to mankind.
Times I believe are changing; and the way out of the difficulty may be to learn to synthesise consciousness. After all Tolstoy asked at the end of War and Peace whether it was good men or bad men who could organise themselves better? It is vital that it should be good men, or we are all lost! Allowing God to break your life to give it to mankind may provide the inspiration of another Calvary, but it does not organise society. One needs both: the inspiration of self-sacrifice and organising ability.
From long ago until recently such an intense struggle was needed for civilised society to survive at all, that the threat of extinction was enough to persuade most reasonable men to pull together. It was enough that society appeared to be moving towards a better future. It was sufficient for man to work, to think, and to reflect. Now materially we have already arrived at the millennium; although there is still a lot of poverty, the threat of starvation or plague in civilised countries is so much less than it used to be, that it is largely ignored. In consequence men have time to sit back and reflect more than they used to, and ask themselves, “Where do we go from here?”. Or if they are lazy they may ask, “Is there anything to make life worth living any more?”. Materially the answer is that we do not go anywhere at all; modest comfort is enough, luxury is quite unnecessary. Besides luxury depletes the earth's resources too fast. So if any progress is to be made, it must be progress in a different direction; it must be progress in communication between man and man, and towards a progressively increasing mutual trust. This is what I call consciousness synthesis; because manifestly if communication and mutual trust…