“There is the problem. No Church, no Bible, and no sacrifice equals their Christmas materialism.”
- My advice to you, being a Swedish Lutheran:
Try and distinguish between the faults you find in certain fellow Christians striving to build happy homes and being a slave to the scriptures.
Without middle class Westerners, this world would be eternally lost.
“...being a slave to the scriptures...”
That is a stretch. Scriptures are liberating. Still it is those who take them seriously like Lutheran Dietrich Bonhoeffer that have firm footing. Bonhoeffer was a strict constructionist...while so many of his fellow Lutherans saw no problem with the Nazi restructure of their church. Bonhoeffer’s gave the same advice as I am giving but lived it much closer than I ever have.