“Money, money, money that is honey in a rich man’s world”, sings the wandering musical band. Honey is a good body builder, but in excess makes constipation, so also money in excess is allergy that makes spiritual constipation which either hardens one’s heart or loosens it. However, life in a rich man’s world without money is also not easy, as the cashless technological world spins on plastic money that never rot or eaten by moth. Mammon is the god of wealth that relates either in cash or goods or property. “You cannot serve God and mammon. No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other”, Lk.16: 13; Mt.6: 24. Coined money was unknown until late in bible times. Gold and silver in the form of rings or ingots were weighed in payment where we would count coins. The fossil money that tilted the axis of the earth lately is a chaos maker which the end doesn’t know the beginning, as it overturned the lifestyle of the global inhabitants who live in a fool’s paradise of super life of high-tech doom. “You have laid up treasure for the last days”, Jas.5: 3.

There is no avenue that hasn’t been rewritten into the lifestyle of today’s way of life, including the bedroom life because money and status job is the dictator of the wedded life of today. Love at sight that used to be the barometer of marriage till lately is replaced by the beauty of job and wealth that adds the paraphernalia of a pleasurable detour track of ownership and individualism. There is no ownership or any binding claim on this revolving and changing planet that itself is tilted by a remote-controlled Prime Mover. God says that both husband and wife become one body after the wedlock, whereas the man-made law dictates that their union becomes a case of rape unless there is mutual consent which if later denied often end up in compensation and revenge, whereas any illicit sex transaction on the basis of adult ‘mutual consent’ that violate the code of religious values and morals is abominable in the sight of God. Making two halves, not symmetrical, as one body by the cord of ‘mutual co-operation’ that implies love, nurture and care is the cardinal aim of a Divine married life because the phrase ‘mutual consent’ has a legal binding, while the term ‘mutual co-operation’ is an amicable alliance that has a strong moral and welding relationship.

As agents of God, we enter into marriage relationship that is God’s work of replenishing the earth for the glorification and completion of His works and the nervous, nuptial pleasure that is given to the couple is only a bonus for finer mutual affection and performance of His work on earth. Sexual pleasure is not a right in itself because the remote control of the body and mental health is with the Creator. Sexual union for the sake of mere nuptial pleasure in marital context is not called sanctified marriage in its fullest sense because God the orchard man expects right and mature fruits at tits appointed seasons for His glorification. This lately invention of ‘mutual consent’ is only one example of the evil effect of minting excess fossil money that has touched every shore of our private and external life. Narcotic and ecstatic Drugs and its underworld money, global sex trade and pornographic wealth, alcoholic addiction which accumulates money for a small section of the community and the recent explosion of mineral resources that we have no dimensions to measure with and all other mammoth similar financial transactions which have a ripple effect in everything in this world now is tilted around by technology that has no eye or ear brings excess money in an epic proportion.

Fossil Money:
Fossil money that is derived by the underground petroleum and recent boom in mineral resources and all other excavated wealth has made a veritable duplicate hell on earth in letter and spirit because this earth is partially handed over lately to Beelzebub by pumping out the components or ingredients of the underworld resources have conquered this planet. The surfacing of the Beast on the world stage, Rev.13: 1, materializes only when all his credentials are brought beforehand over to the surface when he emerges from the hell. The mega computer by which he holds the grip of the world seemingly is the symbolic presence of the prince of perdition here soon. This representative of the Beast has made upside down our natural life and our social and family life, resulting the greedy and the self-centered ones to bend the marginalized and vulnerable ones to their knees by any form of demonic ways of a pop culture of fossil wealth.

These minority and heartless swindlers have converted this globe as a place of treachery that has touched all arenas of our life, making humanitarian crises because of aggression and weapons of mass destruction and other weaponries. Bringing somebody to subjugation is the predatory instinct that is already ingrained in our nervous system. The uprooting of the members of the whole geographical zone and driving them to distant unknown and hostile destinations is a toy game that is played by atomic powers which are sitting at the remote parts of the world. The modern life style that can’t afford to have any feeling of sympathy and mercy towards others is a total human tragedy. Even the crow flocks together when one of its members is in utter pain, but not human beings who have a stony heart. This earth has been a paradise for the mediocre, but the geriatric mediocrity is outdated lately by the age of the survival of the unfittest that will have to harness the world and its affairs for a short time.

Communal Life:
The symptoms of climate change, depletion of ozone layer and global warming are the products of the overuse of petrol and other minerals and mass scale mining and explorations. God used to give only a bare minimum of sustenance wealth by hard living, so that His creations repent of their sins and help together for their routine farming life of austerity. For example, thatching the roof of our houses needed to have more men at the same time because the necessity of finishing the work on the same day was imperative to protect ourselves and the property from the inclemency of weather, so also farming that involves the joint efforts of many people while doing planting and harvesting seasons. Though we need many people in factory lines in modern manufacturing industries, these people come from many parts of the city or other regions that doesn’t need to have any indispensability of a social life. It was a necessity to have a communal life of sharing, helping and working together for a bare minimum in a village life, where everyone knows from childhood to death. Unless one made a good name in the community, his life would have been in misery because of taking birth and dying in the same place. The half-starving life of bygone days was imperative for a religious life of forgiving and forgetting.

High-tech nomadic life:
A nuclear family life that has no social intercourse of neighborhood sharing and caring is a curse of humanity. Birth control facilities that limit to a couple of children per family that overprotect, overfeed and superimpose the adult addictions and vices is a hot house growth which detour the life of children to a underground, nomadic world of frustrations, anxieties and helplessness. A large family is always a blessing, on accounts of children sharing, helping, scuffling, fighting and lisping into the hard world of sufferings and back- biting and gossiping. Unless children get immunity from all sorts of childishness and taunting from the beginning, they find it hard to adjust with the later life of intriguing world that tests one’s patience, endurance and courage and nerves. Nervous stability that is acquired by various childhood activities and associations of failures and successes build a life that is full of challenges and confrontations.

It is a sin to throw an infant into a toy world of animated video games and all sort of electronic games and gimmicks and alien acrobatics that exhibit a life of astral world, the region of ‘oyar’- the place of ‘asuras’- or evil spirits. They are the real terminators of everything that is good in a child. The animated weird shows of myriad loose sides of life portray a subterranean culture of animality that sucks away the fine feelings of human affection and care, converting the young ones as morose as astral weird mob. The child is familiar only with wars, weaponries and imaginary space travels. The parents who both work and enjoy the pleasure of the flesh spend most of their money for children and their family adventures, the net result of deleting the inherent feeling of sympathy, mercy and kindness towards the human world. Religion and moral values, the inevitable menu of one’s life, becomes a missing link that creates a void for all the terminator shows and adventures to fill the vacuum. Together with it come all the amorous sides of sex life that wean away the necessary ingredients which build the higher values of life. A mafia world that craves for making commotions and install the dark underworld power to be in charge of the world affairs is working day and night by deleting the moral instincts that is imbedded in our system. Only money that buys the pleasures of life is the lingua franca of these high-tech immoral gymnastics.

Impact of super-tech life on religions:
The stereotype religion that is a copycat of the sub-culture erases out the monastic lifecycle of an individual who become a sum-product of ephemeral life cycle which end up in a whirlpool of failures, disappointments and vengeance. Complaints, complaints, complaints, always complaints, but no solutions given by high-tech techniques, rather complaints are spiraled due to the high-flying pleasures of life that whet the lust of the flesh. Don’t think I am blaming anyone because these outcomes are the net result of each day’s changes that take place without our knowledge. As these overnight technological changes that don’t have any eye or ear enhanced our lifecycle to a pinnacle of material pleasures, we became a slave of Rip van Winkle’s dream of lasting sleep. Because the high-tech generations that don’t have a clue of the immense natural sufferings of the bygone generations, the modern man’s eye lids raise up when we present the naked realities of the past, thereby making enemies who want to wreak vengeance upon the innocent yesterday’s man. Is it called generation gap? It is not essentially a natural or superlative generation gap, but it is a systemic exercise of riding on the vices of life that make an unbridgeable chasm between the old and new. Nobody knows what is going on. It is the work of a minority which is a toy of Satan who is behind all the moral and religious avalanches that shakes the world of right-thinking minority. The majority religious mediocre that swings to any side which suits them for that particular moment of time really win their aims. Today’s churches and parishes that have become the prey of commercially-oriented Christian parasites who finds no difference between Sunday and Monday are real pains for the Lord and His true believers.

Today’s clergy that is a product of this toy world doesn’t know the real religion that pleases the Almighty. They think that pompous celebrations which go in tune with all the high-tech products entice God, of course please gods of aerial realms, and collect some money for themselves and charity work that has eventuated as the soul of the religion of today. Such people don’t have an idea of higher corollary values of the true faith: righteousness and love and character-buildup which have become the outcome of any religion. The religious hierarchy that crucified Jesus was only a duplicate copy of Herod and his regime; those clerics observed every rite in letter and spirit, but rejected the real spirit of the religion that only can offer salvation to a repenting soul which roots out “evil thoughts, fornication, theft, murder, adultery, coveting, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within, and they defile a man”, mk.7: 21-23. Long prayers, pompous and ritual celebrations and festivities, deluxe superficial extravaganzas in marriage, funeral, baptism, birth and wedding anniversaries, little charity works for name’s sake, etc. are not the ingredients of inner cleansing; they are the weapons of the Pharisees who revel in their external religious barometers. What is within is more important than without. The money-making and status- building religious external exhibitions have become the unnecessary appendages that invite only the religious fringe groups that expect cheap or superfluous salvation from the rudimentary religious epicentere of the present- day lax religious set up. It is the money culture that is the predator for the extinction of the real spiritual man.

The sub-culture man of today doesn’t need any help from others because there is everything ready made that he can buy from anywhere where there is no direct relationship with any individual, despite there is a hidden bond that he doesn’t care, owing to the fact that all the items of goods or avenues that he uses are done by some sacrificing souls who worked hard by the labour that he did at the one end of the world. There are all sorts of insurances that look after him if there is any mishaps coming into his way, also there are many types of pensions that can provide him with all the basic amenities of everyday life. There are directory assistance for his travels, communications and any kind of extravaganzas. Everything except God is available at his doorstep, in spite of God’s unseen angels is just nearby for his aid at every moment. He can fly, dive and drive that matches with the tele-transportation of the invincible world. The modern recycled man has become the angels of antiquity that depended on the help of the angels of light at every moment of their lives, as the help of the big brother was needed by the younger one.

Who cares others now when we live in a free world of limitless opportunities, the boundary of which is the horizon. Where there are no parents, there are foster parents and welfare groups to support us. If there is no money, there are banks to provide us loans. The mortgage plans that entice us to have housing loans offer us to have luxurious houses and apartments. Loans for those who desire to further their education are an immense help that can equip one for life. How many other loans, such as wedding loans, pleasure trip loans for global tours, medical treatment loans that help us to continue our aspirations of life are blessing bonanzas? The tragedy now is that we have everything that has become a curse, except God and His commandments that nurtures and revitalize the soul. The natural man of yesterday dreamt that we could fix all our earthly problems, if we could have money and inventions that fill our bellies and tear apart the cord of distance which makes better telecommunications. Here are we now; where are we? As God’s inter-planetary emigration has made a great vacuum that is being filled in by the dark angels which find exit zones through the polar holes of Artic and Antarctic regions, is a worry that is to be pondered upon with soul-searching techniques.

Serene family life that is replaced by hobbies, defacto relations, freedom and independence to fiddle with one’s own passions, open society that encourages licentiousness and promiscuities and fads cut the umbilical cord bond between parents and children, making a world that fight like cats and dogs for supremacy and power is a world war which finds its own weapons for self destruction. The family life that lost its bounds created a pandemonium that profess and stretches its tentacles to social and geopolitics to all carnalities is an end of the age invention that cut our roots for our own extinction from this planet that is any way meant for fire ultimately. If this planet has originated from a big bang fire, the natural instinct is that it will have to be buried one day within its own ashes soon after the big bang.

Parish or church politics and villainy:
Most of the young adults of the parish have been or are members of political, or Arts/ and social clubs of the secular spectrums where they don’t have a chance to play dirty politics because it is stereotyped by stringent rules or mafia type set up. They prowl upon the challengers or dissidents and finish them off if there is betrayal and rough politicking. There are only complaints and grievances that make opportunities for villains to come to surface and bargain for their rights and demands. The vicar comes to a stage where he finds a safety zone of becoming a tool of these business mafias who pretend to protect him by feeding with false truths that they invent for their own survival. As everyone in the eyes of God is the same, we have only a safety haven where we can play politics is the church or parish. The pagan-minded and well-trained people fish in the troubled waters that are muddied by hooligan tactics get into the inner sanctum and try to bribe the Minister with parish money that is collected from the widows of two pennies. The sub-cultural church thrives in its externals, not the internals that trigger for the awakening of inner instincts which are the imperatives of an evolved life of repentance and austerity.

The priest who at one stage of his life was or has been a member of all such clubs before inducted into the religious field also take such opportunities to make as much money and play as much power games to silence the innocent and the generous ones because they are there in that parish only for a short time. Once they grab power and money some of them avail of any means to the extremes that the beginning couldn’t even. The real religion of monastic fervour is lost, as we have received our initial training at the lap of TV shows and video games and all other inventions of alien field of occult and animated wild screen shows from the time of our nappy and crawling stages. What is sown in our heart flower will germinate and flower forth for giving suitable yields from the age of young adulthood.

There is no room for complaints and check and balance because of the congenital problems that slots everyone into the right places of this alien culture of brain washing and replacing with occultism and paganism. We can’t superimpose on anything that has a robust and slippery surface. Our seers have seen this final scenario that gulps all the finer things in life and communal life by an astral force of ‘asura’ culture. Parishes and churches have become satellites of political and social predation. Money that has become a multi-faced dragon will have to show its rampage for the closing down ceremony of this age. Money can’t solve major problems; it can only drag on from problems to problems, just like making ripples of waves by the throw of a small stone. Money is a solver of problems, but a creator of a whirlpool of chaos and commotion, despite it is a good servant but a bad master.

Jesus’ Parable:
While the Lord was explaining about the close of the age, He reminded to “Remember Lot’s wife”, Lk.17: 32, who looked back to burning Sodom due to its lustful attraction. “And Lot lifted up his eyes, and saw that the Jordan valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord…; this was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah”, gen.13: 10. Where there is material prosperity that makes a sin paradise attracts the fire of the Almighty. This world that is in unison with Sodom has developed with all the supersonic and technological inventions and telecommunications, and the conversion of it as a technological paradise is a thing of beauty and joy forever, but not a palatable dish to swallow in the long run. Who would like to exit from this paradise of the flesh that needs to have tons of money to live here like a fallen angel who wants to ‘reign in hell than serve in Heaven”?

The priest also is a man who wants to have more money for a deified and dignified life because he is a model and an architect of human destiny in the afterlife. When we live in mansions of luminosities and extravagances, the argument to have a Jerusalem Temple and its ramparts for God and His ministers are also a matter of tacit agreement, ignoring the fact of Solomon’s humility “ Heaven and the highest Heaven cannot contain thee, 1.King.8: 27, explicitly validates that we can’t live like demi-gods on this earth. That Jerusalem Temple also rumbled down to debris and ashes, same is also with the craving of the real estate spirituality that has to take us to the land of Sodom, the translation of the same lately into our theology and church is also a materialization of the wife of Lot’s reminiscence.

Many of us are not aware of the explicit meaning of the parable of “a judge who neither feared Lord nor regarded man”, Lk.18: 1- 8, and upon this topic I wrote a book called ‘Viswasam Kandethumo’ but is the least of my books that is sold on the ground that both the flock and the clergy is only interested in money and power games that is based on commercialization of spirituality by real estate swindles. God is a righteous Judge, Ps.7; 87, and the priest the ambassador of God is the agent of the Heavenly Judge. Therefore, the clergy who neither fears God nor regard man seemingly is the person who neither fear God nor regard man of the parable in question. The widow who is pleading ‘Vindicate me against my adversary’ is the church that protects its flock from Satan, the enemy. This could be the reason for Jesus’ exasperation that He expressed at the close of the parable, “When the Son of Man comes, and will He find faith on earth? If my interpretation is wrong, I plead God to forgive me, as I don’t have any authority to criticize the Elect of God. But my consolation is that I don’t find fault with any particular one, but has treated as a class action that delineates the symptoms of the age.

This is the reason for the priest praying during the worship time not to punish the flock on accounts of the shepherd’s faults. “And will not God vindicate his elect, who cry to him day and night?..I tell you, he will vindicate them speedily”? Even if the priest /clergy is not a God-fearing man or righteous, it is our duty to request him to help us. He said to himself, “Though I neither fear God nor regard man, yet because this widow bothers me , I will vindicate her , or she will wear me out by her continual coming’. And the Lord said, Hear what the unrighteous judge says”. Refer Matthew 23 also. Because the authority of the forgiveness of sins is the shield and weapon of the priest, our duty is to obey and continually entreat his power of attorney for the forgiveness of our sins. Whether the priest is an ideal man or not, as he has the authority over the soul, instead of abstaining from his sacramental rites and forfeiting our parish membership and seeking refuge to a different shepherd of heretical mould, on account of any discord or disharmony, turns out to be a spiritual suicide.

It is ideal for a religious minister not to accept any offer other than his salary, as the majority of the wives of the priest are also regular wage earners by doing plum pensionable jobs and he also can work and earn as long as he is in good health. The wealth of the parish is the money offerings of the majority poor parishioners of two- penny widows. Squeezing their money and give it to rich ministers doesn’t add up four plus three as seven. Accepting money or reward for the performance of the clerical sacraments also can be treated as bribery because “freely you have received and freely you give”. Usually they grab the jobs for their wives from the institutions that are formed and established by the donations or the contributions of the members of that particular religion or sects, and that denies the opportunity of the parish members and their dependents to get a job in their institutions that they have established.

I am not blaming anyone because these are the signs of the time that are to be accomplished before everything come to a standstill. When the fossil money that has become the lingua franca of the sub-cultural life, “your need is greater than that of mine” has become an obsolete theory. The apostles and Jesus have sternly reprimanded against the vice of accumulating money that is moth-eaten in this plane of treachery and self- deceit. “For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also”, Mt.6: 21; 1.Ti.6: 7-10. “Take heed, and beware of all covetousness; for a man’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions”, Lk.12: 15. Money, Mammon, is a god, not God.