Can consumers be saved? Can consumers be saved? It is perhaps one of the more appropriate questions of our time. I think consumers can be saved – but not as consumers. Today, the rich man is the consumer man. The productivity of modern man has left necessity behind. Today we no longer have needs: needs have us. And so, not strangely, Christ has much to say about money. We are told to give it away (or at least lots of it). Riches choke out the good seed. Be anxious for nothing. Whoever seeks to save his life will lose it. It is easier for a camel to pass through a needle’s eye than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. Consumption, in the manner in which we know it, is the symptom of a disease, the deep disease of corruption of which the Scripture warns: “And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes, and a tree to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” Of course, none of this was her own idea – there were commercials in the garden. Taken in part from Fr Stephen Freeman’s article: “Shopping for God.” blogs.ancientfaith/glory2godforallthings/2014/12/03/shopping-god/
Posted on: Wed, 03 Dec 2014 23:52:25 +0000
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