The struggle between consumer religion and the Christian faith is a battle at least as old as that of the prophets against Baalism or the early church against the divinized Roman Empire. Indeed, we have only to look at the change in Rome from the year 58 or so, when St. Paul wrote Romans, to about 85 when John wrote Revelation, to see a good thing become bad by assuming an aura of divinity...
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Paul wrote Romans, to about 85 when John wrote Revelation, to see a good thing become bad by assuming an aura of divinity. In Romans 13 Paul calls the empire's officials "ministers [deacons] of God to do his will." Twenty-five years later in Revelation 13, Rome has become "the beast," the creation of the devil, with an accompanying beast that stands for the religion of the empire: "He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed" (Rev...
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