In the following comments CS Lewis warns us about potentially deadly consequences of “religion”
“Many
people substitute religion for God, as if navigation were substituted for
arrival, or battle for victory, or wooing for marriage, or in general the means
for the end. But even in this present life, there is danger in the very concept
of religion. It carries the suggestion that this is one more department
of life, an extra department added to the economic, the social, the
intellectual, the recreational, and all the rest.
But
that whose claims are infinite can have no standing as a department. Either it
is an illusion or else our whole life falls under it. We have no non-religious
activities; only religious and irreligious.
Religious
ritual is not necessarily bad, in fact it should be a good thing.
But none it necessarily or more spiritual value than the actives we call
secular.
If the department of our life which we call sacred becomes an end in
itself it becomes an idol that hides me from God and from my neighbors.
It's
easy to compartmentalize our lives and separate our work from our home life, and
our social life from the worship service at church on Sunday. God doesn't work
that way, however, as He asks for all of our life to be submitted to His
authority and leading. Of course, He does this for our own good, so that we can
enjoy all parts of our lives to the fullest. In this way, true joy comes from
living a life in which all of life is "religious," or done in worship
of the Creator”
"So
whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of
God."
1 CORINTHIANS10:31 (NIV)
1 CORINTHIANS10:31 (NIV)
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