Author Topic: The Cult of Mammon? (Read 1125 times)

ProtectorofOrder · « **on:** October 15, 2014, 05:54:14 AM »

How can we defeat the Cult of Mammon that we have right now? The consumerist culture we have from the capitalism aspect? Or when will God act against this? Will it cave in on itself by leading people trying to adopt laissez fair real capitalism, the system that overthrew the natural order of the feudal system but leads to disaster when unrestrained in its purest form?

At where I live the consumerist culture is causing trouble for the catholic church and one of the factors responsible for making people irreligious. From my analysis of the situation using things from some philosphical research and etc I came to the conclusion "Because Money and consumerism/materialism IS their god. The false god is money/mammon". Worshiping something also includes "looking up to it" and they look up to money, desire for consumerism or whatever you call it. I then coined the state we are in as "The Cult of Mammon" from original thought. For example the demand for more catholic clergy.

Wikipedia article extract about 21st century consumerism: "Beginning in the 1990s, the most frequent reason given for attending college had changed to making a lot of money, outranking reasons such as becoming an authority in a field or helping others in difficulty.[citation needed] This correlates with the rise of materialism,[citation needed] specifically the technological aspect: the increasing prevalence of compact disc players, digital media, personal computers, and cellular telephones. Madeline Levine criticized what she saw as a large change in American culture – “a shift away from values of community, spirituality, and integrity, and toward competition, materialism and disconnection.”

Businesses have realized that wealthy consumers are the most attractive targets of marketing. The upper class's tastes, lifestyles, and preferences trickle down to become the standard for all consumers. The not so wealthy consumers can “purchase something new that will speak of their place in the tradition of affluence”. A consumer can have the instant gratification of purchasing an expensive item to improve social status.

Emulation is also a core component of 21st century consumerism. As a general trend, regular consumers seek to emulate those who are above them in the social hierarchy. The poor strive to imitate the wealthy and the wealthy imitate celebrities and other icons. The celebrity endorsement of products can be seen as evidence of the desire of modern consumers to purchase products partly or solely to emulate people of higher social status. This purchasing behavior may co-exist in the mind of a consumer with an image of oneself as being an individualist."

See these problems being caused by this within Catholicism:

http://marksayers.wordpress.com/older-articles/why-young-adults-leave-church-reason-4-consumerist-spirituality/

http://www.theage.com.au/national/catholic-priest-shortfall-an-imminent-disaster-20110304-1bi54.html

ggreg · « **Reply #1 on:** October 15, 2014, 06:00:46 AM »

What do you do for a living? How do you earn money to live?

ProtectorofOrder · « **Reply #2 on:** October 15, 2014, 06:27:27 AM »

Employed in study. Just because you don't believe in consumerist culture doesn't mean you are a leftist, given the chance I would support a reformed/adapted to this age feudal system based on traditional catholic ways.

And to add remember that there is the 100% undeniable fact that some are forgetting that God is more important than money or making money. Money is nothing compared to God and anybody who chooses it over God is worshiping a false god themselves. The blasphemous delusion that money or making money is more important than god is from Satan. Utalitarianism, Secularism and Consumerist are the three main evils that plague society today.

We need reunification of church and state or a full theocracy and full restoration of traditional catholicism. Nobody should have the right to break God's laws or blasphemy and get away with it unpunished.

For others if a catholic paramilitary were established today and this system does cave in on itself and collapse do you think the catholic paramilitary could restore order and seize power immediately?

ProtectorofOrder · « **Reply #3 on:** October 15, 2014, 06:50:45 AM »

For the part/suggestion about seizing power if it does happen someday hopefully what can be done about materialist/consumerist culture, atheism and secularism is that laws can be passed to outlaw/ban them in order to suppress them so that those beliefs would eventually die out as traditional catholic beliefs and in God are restored. Those that are found to have beliefs in them could be taken to special reduction facilities to receive the appropriate correction of what they think from the church or what is now the inquisition office branch of the church.

ggreg · « **Reply #4 on:** October 15, 2014, 09:27:32 AM »

Quote from: ProtectorofOrder

Employed in study. Just because you don't believe in consumerist culture doesn't mean you are a leftist, given the chance I would support a reformed/adapted to this age feudal system based on traditional catholic ways.

And to add remember that there is the 100% undeniable fact that some are forgetting that God is more important than money or making money. Money is nothing compared to God and anybody who chooses it over God is worshiping a false god themselves. The blasphemous delusion that money or making money is more important than god is from Satan. Utalitarianism, Secularism and Consumerist are the three main evils that plague society today.

We need reunification of church and state or a full theocracy and full restoration of traditional catholicism. Nobody should have the right to break God's laws or blasphemy and get away with it unpunished.

For others if a catholic paramilitary were established today and this system does cave in on itself and collapse do you think the catholic paramilitary could restore order and seize power immediately?

What do you mean, given the chance?

What is stopping you?

ProtectorofOrder · « **Reply #5 on:** October 15, 2014, 09:51:48 AM »

Quote from: ggreg

Quote from: ProtectorofOrder
Employed in study. Just because you don't believe in consumerist culture doesn't mean you are a leftist, given the chance I would support a reformed/adapted to this age feudal system based on traditional catholic ways.

And to add remember that there is the 100% undeniable fact that some are forgetting that God is more important than money or making money. Money is nothing compared to God and anybody who chooses it over God is worshiping a false god themselves. The blasphemous delusion that money or making money is more important than god is from Satan. Utalitarianism, Secularism and Consumerist are the three main evils that plague society today.

We need reunification of church and state or a full theocracy and full restoration of traditional catholicism. Nobody should have the right to break God's laws or blasphemy and get away with it unpunished.

For others if a catholic paramilitary were established today and this system does cave in on itself and collapse do you think the catholic paramilitary could restore order and seize power immediately?

What do you mean, given the chance?

What is stopping you?

What is stopping me is that there is currently no feudal system movement based on traditionalist catholic values. Plus its not unstable enough for it to seize power if there was one.

I'm striving for political career if possible.

ggreg · « **Reply #6 on:** October 15, 2014, 10:38:49 AM »

Let me know when you stand for election. I'll vote for you.

http://www.omrlp.com/

Why don't you start this movement yourself?

ggreg · « **Reply #7 on:** October 15, 2014, 07:02:20 PM »

Here is someone who took the chance, without waiting to be given the chance.

http://koin.com/2014/10/10/local-mans-email-to-wells-fargo-ceo-goes-viral/