Today I finished reading "The Marketing of Evil" by David Kupelian.
Looking at the title, I expected a book full of negative, politically charged vitriol that was destined to make me want to put it down. What I got instead was a sickeningly shocking, deeply insightful look at the corruption of American society in the twenty-first century and of its causal relationship to the fall of genuine spirituality in recent decades.
David Kupelian, a devout Roman Catholic, sheds new light - and deep spiritual understanding - on just exactly what our society is today, and how it got that way. He discusses the way evil and designing men have sold filth and corruption in every form as the solution to ills, even to the point of making "okay" that which once was generally understood to be salacious and despicable. From everything to our "public" (read "government") education system, to the selling of illicit sex, homosexuality and even abortion, Mr. Kupelian makes clear the spiritual and undeniably human ramifications of our having allowed these things to become a part of our world today.
He shows us how the Bible saying something is wrong isn't what makes it wrong. It was wrong to begin with, and, for every honest human being willing to admit it, varying from that has real, emotional consequences, such as guilt and remorse, or inability to stop, that don't exactly require faith to see. The Bible isn't the Big Bad Book for making these things wrong, it is, in fact the Good Book because it tells us they are wrong, and gives us the Answer and the solutions to the pain of wrongdoing: the Balm of Gilead, even the saving power of Jesus Christ.
To top it all off, his closing chapter has got to be one of the most beautiful and compelling sermons on genuine faith and the reality of religious experience I've ever seen come from outside the LDS church.
You've got to read this! The Marketing of Evil, by David Kupelian
Trent
Looking at the title, I expected a book full of negative, politically charged vitriol that was destined to make me want to put it down. What I got instead was a sickeningly shocking, deeply insightful look at the corruption of American society in the twenty-first century and of its causal relationship to the fall of genuine spirituality in recent decades.
David Kupelian, a devout Roman Catholic, sheds new light - and deep spiritual understanding - on just exactly what our society is today, and how it got that way. He discusses the way evil and designing men have sold filth and corruption in every form as the solution to ills, even to the point of making "okay" that which once was generally understood to be salacious and despicable. From everything to our "public" (read "government") education system, to the selling of illicit sex, homosexuality and even abortion, Mr. Kupelian makes clear the spiritual and undeniably human ramifications of our having allowed these things to become a part of our world today.
He shows us how the Bible saying something is wrong isn't what makes it wrong. It was wrong to begin with, and, for every honest human being willing to admit it, varying from that has real, emotional consequences, such as guilt and remorse, or inability to stop, that don't exactly require faith to see. The Bible isn't the Big Bad Book for making these things wrong, it is, in fact the Good Book because it tells us they are wrong, and gives us the Answer and the solutions to the pain of wrongdoing: the Balm of Gilead, even the saving power of Jesus Christ.
To top it all off, his closing chapter has got to be one of the most beautiful and compelling sermons on genuine faith and the reality of religious experience I've ever seen come from outside the LDS church.
You've got to read this! The Marketing of Evil, by David Kupelian
Trent
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