Monks And Today's Society
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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 v ....
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second of these vows, chastity, discouraged the monks from sexual desires,
by not allowing such things as marriage and sexual indulgement. The last
vow in which the monks lived by was obedience. This vow was not only used
to keep order, but it was also used to make the monks humble and not proud.
In the modern day United States the dominant values are more along
the line of selfishness. It seems, for the most part, that the main values
in today's American society are, fulfilment of de ....
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