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> > And in John's first letter, he wrote that "the whole world is under the
> > control of the evil one." (1 John 5:19)
> >
> > So 'the world' is what Satan uses to distract us from glorifying God by
> > obedience to Him. Satan's most successful tactics are sexual
> > immorality, pride, and materialism. "The world" tries to take our
> > natural desires and twist them to extremes. This world alienated from
> > God and controlled by Satan(temporarily) is 'the world' to which John
> > is referring.
>
> I think this is even more true today, in the sense that the "evil
> one" may be understood as the culture of consumerism and
> materialism. That's the real evil, in my view -- the adoration of
> the physical in all its forms, which has reached such an orgy that
> it even denies the very existence of the spiritual.
>
> I'm not what you might call a Christian, in that I don't attend
> church and was never confirmed (although I was baptized into the
> Church of England). However, I admire the basic teachings of Jesus
> as divine revelation. In my view, if there is such a thing as the
> teaching of God, it was spoken by Jesus. Too bad his teachings are
> ignored by most active, church-going, self-proclaimed Christians.
>
> The complete lack of spirituality in our Western culture is very
> troubling to me. In part, the churches themselves are to blame for
> ruthless rooting out and rejecting any magic from their practices
> and teachings. They rejected miracles, and now they find that
> people can't be bothered attending their services. Big surprise.
> They take out anything from their religion that it wonderful or
> beautiful or magical, and they are shocked when no one can be
> bothered listening to their drab, mundane, materialistic sermons.
>
> In my view, people still hunger in the spirit, but the churches
> have stopped feeding them. There is no other institutional source
> of spiritual nourishment in Western culture to take the place of
> the churches. Fundamentalism is an obscenity, an embarrassment to
> Christ. If Jesus came back today, he would look at them and say,
> "Hey, all you guys with no necks ranting over the Bible, read my
> lips ... I - don't - KNOW - you."
>
> Individuals are forced to feed their spiritual hunger in whatever
> ways they can find, because they get no guidance or help. If they
> are lucky, they find a teacher or guide, or maybe just an example
> of how they should try to live. Otherwise, they starve

I have the same concerns about rampant consumerism and how a base
part of our nature is being deliberately encouraged and manipulated
for the gain of money lovers (if not for the ultimate gain of Satan).



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