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APRIL 2008 ARTICLE
VOL:07 ISSUE:04

INTELLECTUAL CULTURE
By E.S. JOHN AUSTRALIA

The words like ‘please’, ‘no worries, ‘sorry, thank you, ‘excuse me’ of the signs of superlative affection are the most commonly used words of apology or salutations among the humans which exhibit that man is living in a super or bionic culture of aristocratic order that has no parallel in the annals of human history, yet not the less frequently used words of vulgar swearing or its equivalents in different global vernacular languages, unearth a dastardly kind of a second or third tier of lifestyle that augment the vexation of morally turpitude symptoms of a dying culture of a vanishing species. The cosmetic appearance and lifestyle of a high- tech man is meritoriously successful in laminating the instinctive impulses and frailties and vicissitudes of this ephemeral life. The more he goes to the super- tech hibernations, the vast is his resources to harden his heart that tune to the deprivations of finer human relationships, the imperative symptoms of maturity and give and take culture of sharing and mutual understanding. “The higher the monkey climbs, the more it shows its tail” is the proverb that explicitly portrays the cultural deviations of a materialistic society that is the product of a fossil wealth of petroleum and minerals of various kinds. From monolithic to monolithic is the cycle of our progress that circumvent into an unbridgeable gulf of lisping into an unfamiliar and bleak aeon of uncertainties and helplessness. Civilizations of various kinds flourished in course of time, yet evaporated sooner or later because of cultural diversities due to the mundane and superficial lifestyle that associated with them.

Commandments and sins:
Sins become rampant and poignant when commandments are violated, so also rules are made for infringement. Less rules, better for implementing them. God’s own hands wrote the 10 commandments that embraces every aspect of our life in general terms; seeing that those commandments were not practiced in our day to day life due to its vastness and vividness, God renewed and elaborated them meticulously in special categories and gave them to Moses for people to adhere to, for example, Deuteronomy chapters 21 to 28. The first commandment of making the Altar sacrifice given to Adam was renewed for making it as a bloodless one in the post-sacrificial era of the Lamb’s self-denial. There wouldn’t have been any sins, if there hadn’t been commandments and creeds that were given to Moses, so also the constraints of eating the forbidden fruit by the first parents. Sin is the process of walking over the commandments that are the foods prescribed by God. The reason for Jesus to instruct to follow the commandments to the lawyer for getting salvation was on this ground, Mt.19: 17. Thus sins become a transgression against the authority of God. The desire of the flesh to gratify itself is the father of sin that brings death of the soul. ‘Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and when sin it is full-grown brings forth death”, Jas.1: 15. Sin is a raging battle between the two enemies: the body and soul that, to an extent, rests in the Spirit of God. There is a multitude of sins that are the weapons of Satan which breed them and supply for its seven legions. Sins that are not mortal ones are forgiven by repentance and willful recompense and by the prayers of others.

Mortal Sins:
“If anyone sees his brother committing what is not a mortal sin, he will ask, and God will give him life for those whose sin is not mortal. There is a sin which is mortal; I do not say that one is to pray for that. All wrongdoing is sin, but there is sin which is not mortal”, 1.Jn.5: 16-17. Just as the society survives by the help and continuing work of every individual of the global community lately, every soul that doesn’t commit mortal sins makes the spiritual progress by the prayers of other people and self-penitence. Pray and live for others is the religion that preaches love and concord among the communities. The mortal sins that are prone to kill our soul may be absolved by contrition and tearful repentance by the person himself; the prayers of other persons cannot blot out the stains of such sins. The sin against the Holy Spirit may not always get a chance for repentance as in the case of Judas. The church has listed homosexuality and secondly, depriving the privileges of hired people who toil and moil under the scorching sun and under the dark hours of day and night as mortal sins.

Hired Employees:
Those who sit under the air-conditioned multi-storied building can be categorized as the slaves who work under the darkness, because the light of the sun is an indispensable food for the good health of every individual. The people who are scared to go to the daylight sun due to the -UV-ultra-violet rays- are prone to suffer from vitamin D deficiency. The one who doesn’t give the wage that one deserves for those who kill themselves for earning bread and butter is a cruel act of treachery. Despite the Trade unions fight against the employers for better salaries and working conditions, the employers in certain cases have proven to be the blood-sucking money-makers of the Shylocks brands, particularly in the developing and third world countries, so also some of the employees as hard line Goliaths due to the insincerity and unethical slanders. The latest conditions of signing the contract work are an inhuman policy that violates the freedom of individuals who will have to sacrifice their free thinking by pressure tactics. They deny the human rights of employees who work under consternation and intimidation. One who withholds the rights and better salary conditions of the workers come under the category of the one who commit mortal sins. The apocalyptic times have manufactured a multitude of people making mortal sins because of imposing of hard line conditions; despite they are illegal under the Labour Act Policies. Unless each individual strives to get out of one’s mortal sins, nobody else can give a helping hand to exonerate their inexcusable infirmities.

Same-sex relationship:
This is the second lethal sin that eats away our soul and body, unless the person lives a penitent life and discontinues the brutal sin. Complementing family life that is blessed by the religious imperatives between a man and a woman is the only sexual relationship allowed by God for the propagation of the human race; all other sexual relationship is illegitimate and unproductive, as the result of eating the forbidden fruit was the carnage of ‘nakedness’, Gen.2: 25. Same-sex relationship is biologically barren and perniciously a health hazard; spiritually it is a bomb that explodes and shatters the personality of the individual. Even a lustful look that gratifies one’s flesh comes under the banner of sexual abomination, Mt.5, although there are minor and major sins. It doesn’t mean all other forgivable iniquities become stain free by the prayers of others; transgressions that come under the momentary impulses are forgiven by our prayers; long continuing and willful sins also may come under the label of mortal sins. However, these explanations cannot question the righteousness and jurisprudence of God; these all depend on the genetic conditions and mental, physical and circumstantial set-up of an individual. If Mary Magdalene can get the immunity from the visitation of the 7 legions of the devil by the touch of the Saviour, we are mere pigmies in the territory of spiritual vastness that has no horizon or boundary while engaged in the process of judging others.

Judgement:
The multifarious vividness and complexities of earthly life make us as only mere nomads in the stretching wilderness of human life. There again we are deprived of knowing the head or tail of the mirage of this passing sojourn. We have no knowledge or ability and the authority of judging others. As the sexual aberrations are the mother of all other evils that germinated by the openness of nakedness, let us have an observation over the ocean of sins that rule over the humanity from the first day after the Eden tragedy. Sexual sins that breed within the body of every cell of individuals, 1.Cor.6: 18-20, they become congenital aberrations of genetic disorder that make imprint upon the cells of the coming generations. This is the reason for Jesus to spell out that a lustful look, the cradle of vices that becomes the nursery of amorous love.

The money culture that made it conducive for dating and sleeping with different people is a blatant sin of fornication that become the storehouse of genetic maladies which bud into chronic disorders of multiple tragedies. The transactions of various enzymes, hormones and chemical nutrients and wastes, due to cohabiting with different people, that make a heterogeneous body cripple the soul due to the stain that burden for the future running of the body and spirit. Fornication is a sin that corrupt the soul and body before the marriage; the extra-marital relationship or adultery after the marriage is a serious crime than fornication because marriage is a socially and legally-arranged and accepted relationship that only the death can separate. Taking into account of the congenital and genetic dysfunctions, no secular system has the authority to condone their legal duties that enshrine their moral responsibilities in upholding the moral, spiritual and religious values that is a part of our intrinsic human make-up. We should have entrusted the duties of governance only upon such people who are conversant with the moral, social and religious knowledge which work as the social network of a web that constrain the animal magnetism which torpedo the personality of an individual and others.

Same-sex relationship is also is an aberration that supplements the chemical imbalance of our body system that links and controls the autonomous set-up of a complementing body apparatus. As there is an intrinsic and complex method of fuelling the body by the soul and vice-versa, any perpetration of the natural ethos is detrimental to the body that corrupts the soul is a dynamite of the inner personality of an individual. The unforgivable part is that while the fornicators jeer and laugh at the adulterers, who might have also been fornicators before their marriage, the self-conceited morality of a materialistic society is an open advertisement that it looks like a spit that falls on their own face while they are lying flat. The most perpetrated saga is that the fornicators and the adulterers condemn the traffic of same-sex relationship; despite it is a more serious sin that brought fire from heavens on Sodom and Gomorrah. Just like Sodom was destroyed by fire, the whole world of Noah’s generation was exterminated for their sins by a great deluge, Gen.6: 1-8, mainly of sexual profligacy of misadventures. Surrogate motherhood and in-vitro fertilization are matters of condemnation for many who are indulged in all sorts of sex traffic and sexual deviations. Criminals criticizing criminals is a sign of white sepulchre panacea, especially in this doomsday culture of suicidal traits. One who makes error or mistake in one thing is prone to make faults in everything.

Virgins:
All are expected to be sex virgins before the marriage, but that clan is dying out from everywhere from the face of the globe. The high-tech trend of high-flying life has wiped out the monastic lifestyle that once stood out as a monument of spiritual life of unearthly pinnacle. Even that sphere is corroded with sex corruptions and banalities that lead a life of exoteric culture which invites high places in public life. Man has no time or taste in living a frugal and religious life in the land of material abundance and religious apostasy that lead into the territory of bohemianism, which is synonymous to spiritual poverty. The instincts of the senses rule where the spiritual instincts are rooted out, while the religious hypocrisy has a social role that is still craving for man’s spirit. Instead of the Spirit of God run our body system and our religious venues, if we allow the spirit of this world to take over the control of man and his trademark, we can produce only the Pharisees and Sadducees and moral hunchbacks. When we lose the middle ground, only the extremes become the centre of our attraction. Religious extremism and fanaticism that galvanize the secular set-up or vise versa only end up in the mass production of atheists, agnostics and religious and social mafias. Christ came at a time when such puritanical forces of cosmetic religious pluralism harnessed the rein of the society. The reason for Him to drive out the laminating religious leaders from the holy place was because they made it as a den of robbers.

Outcasts:
Jesus took the whip to bring the downtrodden ones to His fold because they were a shepperdless flock. The light that magnified from Him could convert a woman who was haunted by 7 types of demons. He loved all the marginalized ones, as they were helpless in leading a life of the soul and body. The people sitting at the helm of affairs misled them with a political religiosity that was neither good for their soul nor their body. The womanizing ruling class swallowed the houses of the widows and the social vulnerable. “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the harlots go into the kingdom of God before you”, Mt.21: 31-32. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and make he become a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves”, Mt.23: 15. Sex crimes, sex trade and slavery are all abominable sins, but the sin of spiritual pride that hides all forms of sexual demeanors which walk over the religious commands bring everything to nothing. “For whoever keeps the whole law but fails in one point has become guilty of all of it. For he who said, ‘do not commit adultery’, said also, ‘do not kill’. I f you do not commit adultery but to kill, you have become a transgressor of the law”, Jas.2: 10-11.

Arrogance:
Jesus talked about this type of hypocrisy in very lucid language to the inhabitants of His father’s native place, Capernaum. “And you Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? You shall be brought down to Hades. For if the mighty work done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained in this day. But I tell you that it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgement for the land of Sodom than for you”, Mt.11: 20-24. Jesus failed to do many miracles in his father’s place because they knew that He was the son of Joseph, a poor carpenter. The poor has no place in this world of affluence that is amassed by looting and shooting. The religious faith has no value, just like the natives rejected the Son of Man in His own father’s native land. The money culture of the nations and religions has helped only building a monument of human pride that goes before a fall. This pride that elevates us to the level of Godhead to rule in Heavenly Zion which man inherited from Lucifer is the real test of humanity.

A poor man’s wisdom is trampled over by a multitude of worldly zealots. The sleeping pride of man till the boom of the fossil money is at its zenith now, raging a battle that he may be evicted from his seemingly comfortable sojourn. One has to be welded with the fire of wisdom that whether it comes from a white or black man or from a slave. In order to make the wise fool Jesus took His birth as the son of a carpenter in a manger that give refuge to a mute animal, making the donkey as his vehicle on Palms Sunday. He had many things to say but kept quiet that spoke violently and vehemently after taking His seen mission from this world. The people who seduced to sexual slavery brought Mary Magdalene to Jesus to sentence her to stone to death, so that they could hide their immoral traffic with a paranoid person, before it comes to sight.

Hypocrisy, self -betrayal and self-conceit that rule a society accuse one another for sexual immorality-such as dating that end up in fornication and abortion, same-sex relationship and many other illegal sexual traffic, rape, corner stone of all other vices, hiding one’s own head under the Himalayan sand dunes. Some sort of witch hunt is made against some sexual perverts by people of other kinds of sexual maniacs. Every kind of sin will have judgement on the day when this earth vanishes; a sinner shouldn’t accuse another sinner. “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her”Jn.8. Jesus didn’t specifically say a sexual sinner stone her first, but a person with any sin. Sexual immorality is the infringement of the sixth commandment, there are 9 other commandments that one has to follow stringently, to doctrines, statutes and covenants we are bound to give heed to. The god mammon has manufactured only a sea of faith bashers and morality bashers who lead a life of religious and non-religious mafias.

Pride:
Pride is a product of ignorance and personality break-up that conceals all sort of pandemonium. It is the pride of Capernaum that paid no heed to the Son of Man. Sexual profligacy is only second to self-deceit and blatant hypocrisy. The darkness of this planet that caused by Lucifer’s to rebel against the law of God is a classic example. His fall is due to his head weight that forced him not to worship the Most Holy One. As we don’t worship God in truth and Spirit, all the wickedness that the devil manufacture becomes our menu, eventuating not only blaspheming God, but also slandering and despising one’s own brethren. Read St.Matthew 18 and read the parable given there. This is about you and me. Fear God who only can instill the beauty of this evanescent life. The pride of Capernaum is haunting us and forces us to abandon God and follow a life of licentiousness.

Don’t kick a dead body. Help the sick and the poor. The people of Capernaum had a responsibility of caring a helpless man in his own home town; instead they turned a blind eye to Him and ignored Him. Our modern wars and atrocities have made this world as uninhabitable. Millions and millions of uprooted nomads are wandering around the world; stop this weapons of mass destruction and lethal wars that pull out the innocent and the helpless from their habitats. We have a moral duty of caring the sick and feeding the hungry. Nations and States are squandering billions and billions of money and their resources for whetting the lust for their own satisfactions. Leave alone the war, how much national wealth is wasted for spying and espionage their own innocent and helpless citizens. The law makers intend some good things, but the implementers use the law for their own end by torturing the helpless, uprooting the defenseless and vulnerable. Colour, ethnicity, geography and many other things come to the forefront glare while hunting the apparent culprits. Taunting words and actions that have multiple meanings are not jokes, but only can make a pandemonium in the midst of a happy setting. Jokes are empty words and gestures that a fool enjoys in the company of ruffians hurt the wise and sincere. Those who stand for values and wisdom have no value in this world that predating the chain reality of ‘diamond cut down diamond itself’. It is not easy for everyone to look and pretend like good people and act as cool villains.

Charming and pleasing expressions of manners come usually from the carnivorous nature of an inner Goliath of solid iron. “Look like the innocent flower and let there be serpent under it’, Shakespeare, is the philosophy behind the charming generations of modernity. Blind Legal binding, not the moral one, is the fibre that runs the society, institutions and families. The super-tech Pharaohs can’t have any human relationship because the mechanical intelligence that encompasses the moral machines is controlling our day to day affairs now. The man who supposedly harnesses the mechanical system has become a blind machine in the jungles of machineries; he is in no way different from one of the machines that he bridles with. The brain culture of today that transact the human affairs has no character of finer sentiments. Brain culture has no purity of character unless aligned with the vibrations of feeling that emanates from the heart. Feelings come from the heart, not from the brain. Saluting with superlative adjectives become shallow if we don't associate them with sublime affection and care.

The intellectual culture that was not a symptom of a natural lifestyle of the bygone age is an offshoot of materialistic culture of legal-minded technological aristocracy that is aligned with the super lifestyle of self-worship and egoism, whereas we used to correct people by saying straight to their face before. That age is no more because the mob thinks that correcting by moral lesson is hurting and unethical. “Woe unto you hypocrites! for you are like white-washed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead man’s bones and all uncleanness, mt.23: 27-28. Polished behaviour that hides the corrupt, sophisticated man is a threat to the society that destroys the quality of this transitory life.

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