Ross makes excellent points. I asked in an earlier post whether the first question for the CC should be what God is asking of him.
Yet it seems to me that living in the world doesn’t require us to be “consumerist men”. A conservatism or a religion “attuned to the needs of most people” will show us how to be spiritually independent of the world without rejecting it, so that we won’t worry too much about money, or let our children watch too much television. I take this to be what Rod is really getting at.
