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 ==== ====Are You LOOKING To Start To Mame Money Online Or Become a Millionaire Online- Click Here...http://freeseoplugin.com/MillionaireSocietyReview ==== ====When tough economic times hit, there is always the question as to whether greed is the cause ofour economic problems. However, this isn't necessarily the root of the problem. It is a bit morecomplex than that. Railing against the greed in capitalism doesn't take into consideration the otherfactors that are equally present. Greed can also be for power. Power comes with money, but itisn't always the money people are after. This is why big government is as dangerous as corporatemonopolies. The people who have consolidated significant power tend to be corrupted by it. Ashuman beings, we all tend to lean toward materialism in our actions, and find our personalsignificance and value in things we control and own. There is a spiritual aspect to the problem of materialism. It is a worldview that fuels greed. Oursociety has been increasingly embracing the worldview of naturalism, of which materialism is apart. Naturalism holds that knowledge is limited to what we can see and that everything must bethought of in physical terms. Naturalism ignores the spiritual aspects of life, considering them morelike superstitions. So we tend to move toward seeking our personal value in the things we possessand the things we control. To make matters worse, we also discount objective truth. The end resultis there are no standard set of values we all hold common, and that means there is no foundationfor society to build on. So in America, we have come to equate financial wealth with a higher level of happiness. This ispartly what is wrong with the caste system in India. The belief behind it is materialistic. Thisworldview is illustrated well in the movie Slumdog Millionaire. However, what we really need is apurpose for our life. But we can't find purpose in physical things. Since we have decided thatobjective truth can only be found in scientific conclusions, we have dismissed the existence oftruth beyond what we can see, hear, feel, taste, or touch. Yet there is a non-physical reality wherewe find our sense of purpose and meaning in life. We are ignoring half of the knowledge we couldbe gaining by ignoring the knowledge from the non-physical realm. In Hosea 4:6 in the OldTestament, it tells us what happens when we lack knowledge. There are moral shortcomings thatlead to a downfall. The ways of the people are characterized by self gratification and greed. So the real solution to our economic and financial problems doesn't lie in putting our trust in aneconomic theory about what will restore our economy, but rather it lies in recognizing the thinkingthat has led us astray. As a nation we are turning away from the Bible as a source of moralauthority, which was certainly in the minds of the founders of our country. It is found throughoutthe federal and state constitutions, as well as our Bill of Rights. It even says on our money "In GodWe Trust". It was this moral compass that has guided legislation in the early years of our country.But, as we have strayed from those original moral principles, we have caused the problems wehave today. We have led our citizens to strange ideas about how the world works, and they haveadopted them. We have let the marginalization of faith and the emphases on a materialistic
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