Is Faith a Trend or ?

March 27, 2011

The Vancouver Sun newspapers ran a report headlined, “Canadians losing faith as religion faces extinction” on March 23, 2011.

Part of its report read, “Researchers said that as the masses who claim religious non-affiliation swell, it becomes more appealing to join the ranks of that group. The model predicts that for societies in which the perceived utility of not adhering is greater than the utility of adhering, religion will be driven toward extinction," the study said.”

Faith has been categorised among trends such as fashion and a matter of vogue. As it becomes less ‘in’ and ‘cool’ to be religious, it becomes less and less attractive to be identified as a person of faith.

There used to be a time when ‘spirituality’ is used exclusively to refer to things or actions that spring from a sacred source. However, ‘spirituality’ has evolved today to also mean a personal state of mind, a totally individual inner path, without engaging with the supernatural.

Meditation used to be on the Word of God while meditation today probably means emptying your mind of any thoughts and achieving a peace within yourself.

Prayer used to be the language between man and a known God, while it is now used loosely to refer to remembering the person in our thoughts and messaging an unidentifiable Being up there, if there is really one. Never mind that the Divine may or may not be there.

We live in a spiritually confusing time and a media-shaped time.

Unless we are committed to invest our time, live and grow into the values of the Holy Book, we will be sucked into the world’s trend and hoodwinked into Satan’s lie.






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