Enthusiast for the Christian communist Bruderhof Gang Jake Meador, here:
Davis and Graham also find that a much larger share of those who have left church have done so for more banal reasons. The book suggests that the defining problem driving out most people who leave is … just how American life works in the 21st century. Contemporary America simply isn’t set up to promote mutuality, care, or common life. Rather, it is designed to maximize individual accomplishment as defined by professional and financial success. Such a system leaves precious little time or energy for forms of community that don’t contribute to one’s own professional life or, as one ages, the professional prospects of one’s children. Workism reigns in America, and because of it, community in America, religious community included, is a math problem that doesn’t add up.
Same as it ever was.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
-- Matthew 6:24; Luke 16:13
For the love of money is the root of all evil.
-- I Timothy 6:10
