Living in an alien world, Part 1
by Campbell Campbell-Jack, A Grain of Sand:
Most Christians live in blissful ignorance of the reality of Eph. 6:12 that in a rapidly re-paganising West we are in the midst of spiritual and moral warfare. This spiritual struggle around us is going to metastasise massively, and the only way to survive as Christians is to draw in deep to the faith, and to a community of the faithful, to take refuge in God and his people.
Toxic Environment In our post-Christian society, practices which once were the province of dubious characters and were conducted under threat of criminal sanction are now socially legitimised big businesses. There was a time when society saw it as its responsibility to protect people from such harms through bans or restrictions and by the power of social condemnation. Those days are long gone. What was condemned is now celebrated, and our government is a major player.
The gambling industry demonstrates this. We no longer have bookies’ runners linked to crime gangs taking bets on the sly. The UK’s largest digital gambling company, Bet365, is posted on the Stock Exchange with revenue of £2.8billion in 2023. The government-franchised National Lottery, the world’s biggest digital gambling organisation, dwarfed Bet365 with sales of £8.19billion in the year ending March 2023.
This is the sea in which we swim, an environment which is drawing away from its Christian roots at an increasing pace. The culture in which we live is one of growing idolatry; we cannot escape it so the question is how do we live within it? There are three broad options:
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