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Essay Galaxy - Monks and Today's Society
Monks and Today's Society
The strict ideals taken by Christian Monasticism (Monks, etc.) are
quite different from those views or values that are taken in the modern day
United States. A majority of the United States citizens, today, are more
likely to have values that are opposite of those seen through the three
monastic vows (poverty, chastity, and obedience).
As a whole the inhabitants of these monasteries (Monasticism as a
whole) discipline themselves, through the three vows, in order to reach a
high spiritual purity. In other words, their strict discipline was to
obtain a closeness to God through their own purity. The three vows, which
were mentioned above, are all means of rejecting the worldly things in
order to reach their goal of purity. The first of these vows is poverty,
which was used to deter the monk....
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