{"id":19196,"date":"2015-05-31T14:26:12","date_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:26:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/?p=19196"},"modified":"2015-05-31T14:26:12","modified_gmt":"2015-05-31T19:26:12","slug":"american-atheistic-materialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/standingonmyhead\/2015\/05\/american-atheistic-materialism.html","title":{"rendered":"American Atheistic Materialism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

\"shopping\"<\/a>This week\u2019s article<\/a> at The Imaginative Conservative reveals how our materialistic habits are actually (beneath the surface) a form of atheistic ideology.<\/p>\n

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At depth, materialism is that philosophy that assumes and asserts that there is nothing more than the material world. \u201cWhat you see is what you get.\u201d The true materialist does not believe in life after death, heaven, hell, demons, angels, miracles and \u201call that medieval stuff.\u201d Instead he wants \u201call that modern stuff\u201d, and by that he means the goodies, the treats, the treasures, not just the house, but the lake house, the mountain house, the beach house and the rental house. He wants more and more and more material stuff because that is the only stuff he believes is real.<\/p>\n

This tragedy is that this American materialistic atheism is lauded as not only the right way, but the only way. We worship the Almighty Dollar, not the Almighty Deity, and our materialism is as much a socially accepted\u2014yea mandated\u2014form of atheism as communistic atheism was accepted and expected in Soviet Russia.<\/p>\n

Most astoundingly, this materialistic, atheistic philosophy has taken over most of the Christian churches. Mainstream Protestants, a majority of Catholics and an increasing proportion of Evangelical Protestants have endorsed and embraced a religious form of materialistic atheism.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Go here<\/a> to read the full article<\/p>\n

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