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 monks from greed and other sins that come from mon....

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