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Is the West spiritually impoverished : Comments

By Mark Christensen, published 23/6/2017

The most intriguing aspect is the inability of insiders to provide a coherent account of what is actually going on. How did Donald Trump, you know, happen?

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Wow, what an insightful piece. Its so weird that christians embraced secularism when its proponents were literally trying to eradicate the church and its history...one for the believe-it-or-not files.
Posted by progressive pat, Friday, 23 June 2017 9:59:19 AM
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Overall, with a few notable exceptions (including Jesus Christ), the West has always been spiritually impoverished - before Christianity, during Christianity and after Christianity; before Trump and during Trump.
Posted by Yuyutsu, Friday, 23 June 2017 11:28:09 AM
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Is the west spiritually impoverished?

Depends on your take on spirituality? As always in these what if treaties, is some entity trying to assume moral authority, trying to define spirituality?

We've always had them from the witch doctor/tribal shaman/elder, imam priest clergy etc/etc. All owning their own facts and ever willing to sit in self appointed judgement, and decide what is good/moral!

There's no connection between lost spirituality and the rise of Donald trump! Just a COMPLETE REJECTION of PRETENDERS waxing fat as they spread their brand of misery and social injustice!

In America the minimum wage hadn't moved for nigh on thirty years, and the wealthy are finding new ways to transfer more wealth from those with the least! Thereby continuing to contract the entire economy, the only logical outcome!

And in so doing, have effectively dismantled, then completely reversed a post war period of unprecedented prosperity! That alone made America great/largest economy in the world!

It is written, inasmuch as you do to the least among you you also do unto me. Simply attending some church and singing Hallelujah, God is great, wont turn an out and out R sole/pretender into a decent human being!

Words and promises pounded into a pulpit mean little or nothing, only actions count!

By their fruits ( what they do, not what they say) we shall know them.

Spiritually impoverished?

Not possible, impossible to lose that which you never had!

But not applicable as a broad brush to the west, east, north or south, just the resident R soles!

As history shows, very little has changed in the attitude of the resident control freaks?

Another lesson of history tells us, from the Roman Emperors on down. Those who crave power for its own sake should never ever have it! But when they do have it invariably make everyone else's lot remarkably worse!

It's not spiritually that gone AWOL, just common humanity/human decency, and almost exclusively at the top of the dung heap of life, and in those we trust with the most important decisions!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 23 June 2017 12:29:25 PM
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Wow. what a confusing article.
Posted by Sells, Friday, 23 June 2017 1:19:16 PM
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I do hope Mark has some idea about politics because he knows nothing of science or spiritual matters.
Posted by runner, Friday, 23 June 2017 2:44:03 PM
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Could it be that Western Christians gradually over the past years have woken up to the fact religion is a scam, lead by hypocritical people.

Just as they have woken up to the lies of Politicians and they are willing to accept anything rather than same same.
Brexit, Trump, Duterte and nearly Le Pen (in France)
Posted by Philip S, Friday, 23 June 2017 2:59:20 PM
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