How can American life be more like what Jesus taught?

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How can American life be lived more like what Jesus taught us? What ungodly practices need reform? How can we reform?
 
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reform? first, through prayer. then, by doing whatever our situations allow.
 
If we reform ourselves first, reform of the nation will be a moot point.
 
I’m watching a documentary on Netflix, “Minimalism.” It starts out describing the typical American way of life as seeking to amass material goods – houses, cars, stuff – and goes on to how to live a more satisfying life with less stuff. I haven’t watched it all yet but it seems like that might be a good start. I try to keep my possessions within bounds, though I haven’t yet cut my wardrobe down to “the minimal ten things.” In my twenties my plan was never to own more than I could carry – then I had kids.
 
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How can American life be lived more like what Jesus taught us?
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Be conscious of every decision and action being made.
E.g.
  • ‘Do I really need a new TV? Or should I take a portion of that cost and donate it to the food bank?’
  • ‘It’s past midnight and only my boyfriend/girlfriend is with me- alone, may it would be wise to go home’
  • ‘I think Sunday should be a special day, maybe I shouldn’t go shopping so that I don’t contribute to the demand for people to work on the Lord’s Day, a demand that shifts the focus from God to Mammon’.
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What ungodly practices need reform?
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Ungodly practices don’t need reform, they need to be outright rejected.
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How can we reform?
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Recognize faith is not a Sunday thing confined to one to two hours but something that is a person’s life. Play an active role in the church. Reform Hollywood and the rest of the entertainment industry. Plenty of things.
 
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Also, a possible 3. Start looking at the sins we commit that do NOT involve either sex or materialism. We hear about 80 percent of the time about sex, 19 percent of the time about materialism (especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas time), and 1 percent of the time about every other sin under the rainbow.

In real life there are plenty of people who for one reason or another aren’t breaking church laws on sex (their equipment no longer works, they just aren’t that interested) and are not shopping up a storm either, but are committing plenty of sins of pride, sins of the tongue, and all-around failures to love God and their neighbor.
 
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A very difficult challenge! Half of Americans don’t even believe in Jesus. Two thirds of the Catholics in this country aren’t even practicing their faith. Plus, progressives have done an outstanding job of attacking Religious freedom. Oh, you can practice your faith, just keep it to yourself. Don’t you dare bring it to work or school, or for that matter any where outside of your Church. Who could have ever imagined that the Little Sisters of the Poor would one day be facing litigation by the U.S. govenment for not providing birth control, including abortifacients? I’m convinced that it will take an earth shattering event of biblical proportions to wake this nation up. And even then I wonder how long it would last.
 
Try reading Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, a recent book by Charles J. Chaput, Archbishop of Philadelphia. I am currently reading it.
 
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How can we reform?
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By focusing on one’s own choices, attitudes, and actions and less on the choices, attitudes, and actions of others.

If, as individuals, we emulated Christ in our own lives and loved as Christ everyone else we would be a monumental change to the world.
 
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