Multiplication of evil
That evil has multiplied is not a secret. That human inclination to evil is ever too real is open to all not only to behold but it can be confirmed even with the most cursory observation. The society fits the biblical declaration that every human thought was evil and every inclination of the heart was towards evil. The respect of what is sacerdotal has all but waned and we have a form of secularism that is not just dormant but it is aggressive. It is aggressive in marketing itself as the better alternative and it casts religious piety as foolishness. It dismisses any argument for morality and belittles any basis for it.
It is an age that has worked so hard to destroy every foundational basis of religion and moral uprightness by advocating intellectual freedom and liberty which has in effect degenerated to most uncalled for debauchery.
A new religion; Materialism
The reason for this is erection of a new religion; materialism. This religion models society as a mass market and nothing else. Everything is viewed in monetary terms. At the heart is a sustained campaign to encourage everyone to sensuality. An unbridled lust and which on being excited must be fulfilled. What fulfills this lust is modeled as product for merchandise in the market. Self control is discouraged; they say it is now bring it on. Delayed fulfillment is foreign to them and so sex is now not after marriage.
A mass of people who can’t, don’t and won’t think
We are in a movement a mass of people we don’t think, we won’t find time to think neither will we be allowed to think. Not with the media that models itself as the one that should think for us and throw to us what they consider as expert opinion. And there are experts for virtually anything that comes up. And the media tells us what to wear, what to eat, where to stay and virtually what to think and how to think.
This is unfortunate for hardly do we know that those who own these media outlets determine what we consume. A clique of few people determines what we will believe in their propaganda rules and what they do is to manufacture consent sublimely from us. They force us to trust in them and rely on what they give us they assume that we are lazy and unable to think and so they should think for us.
This is where we are and with automation the society is likely to become lazier in conscious decision making and so it will remain a mass of people with no direction. In the market place of ideas this is where the battle will be fought. Everyone trying to win their minds and souls, the opinion of everyone will count but the one who shouts to the top of his mouth outshouting others will win them.
The way forward; the intolerant advocacy for Christianity, tenacity and zeal
Now in this contest where does Christianity lie? The religion of the meek followers of Christ? Several reasons have been advanced to explain the rapid spread of Christianity in the first century and afterwards viz: (1) the intolerant but enlarged religious zeal of the Christians inherited from the Jews; (2) the doctrine of the immortality of the soul, concerning which the ancient philosophers had but vague and dreamy ideas; (3) the miraculous powers attributed to the primitive church; (4) the purer but austere morality of the first Christians; (5) the unity and discipline of the church, which gradually formed a growing commonwealth in the heart of the roman empire. But every one of these causes, properly understood, points to the superior excellency and to the divine origin of the Christian religion, and this is the chief cause. (P. Krapf)
Now the world has always been changed by the people who contradicted it most and the same marked indifference to the world is what will make our voice heard. The primitive intolerance to what does not glorify God must remain our non bargain-able minimum. We must tenaciously cling to Christianity and zealously market it.
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