Contented Christianity
In Screwtype letters Lewis says contented worldliness is the devils greatest weapon against Christianity. I think contented Christianity is what the devil has learned to use so adebtly now.
Mass worship service has come in handy to him as it has become the 'soma' of Huxley's Brave New World ('soma' is a differnt word for opium), to the contemporary Christian world where they use worship services to 'pep-up' their 'dead' spirits. The solution to giving life to dead spirits is by dieing to self and picking up the cross and following his footsteps, not in saying 'Halleluia' and rising up ones hands or jumping up and down as in a drill or a yoga class.
Worship services are the means to a greater end in Christianity but the devil has sold people the delusion that worship service is an end in itslef, they are deluded into finding selfish contentment in worship services whereas worship service ought to strengthen and encourage people to greater self-denial and much love for God.
Just as Einstien said 'we have perfected the means but are in total loss about the goals'.
Mass worship service has come in handy to him as it has become the 'soma' of Huxley's Brave New World ('soma' is a differnt word for opium), to the contemporary Christian world where they use worship services to 'pep-up' their 'dead' spirits. The solution to giving life to dead spirits is by dieing to self and picking up the cross and following his footsteps, not in saying 'Halleluia' and rising up ones hands or jumping up and down as in a drill or a yoga class.
Worship services are the means to a greater end in Christianity but the devil has sold people the delusion that worship service is an end in itslef, they are deluded into finding selfish contentment in worship services whereas worship service ought to strengthen and encourage people to greater self-denial and much love for God.
Just as Einstien said 'we have perfected the means but are in total loss about the goals'.