“Orwell feared that the truth would be concealed from us. Huxley feared the truth would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture… In 1984 people are controlled by inflicting pain. In Brave New World, they are controlled by inflicting pleasure.” —Neil Postman

The American church has been so concerned about being seized that it rarely, if ever, considered being

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Revelation 17:1-6

Proverbs 7:21-27

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The prostitute seduces the Church by

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the sins of Babylon.

Revelation 18:3

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The prostitute seduces the Church by normalizing the

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of Babylon and incentivizing the

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of Babylon.

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Revelation 17:16

Babylon always self-

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Revelation 18:9-19

“It is not their businesses that have collapsed, but their religion, a religion of self-indulgence, of getting. Now it is gone: salvation-by-checkbook is gone, god-on-demand is gone, meaning-by-money is gone. They are left with nothing but themselves, of whom after a lifetime in the whorehouse, they know nothing.” —Eugene Peterson

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Revelation 19:1-2

Before we rush to

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, we ought to dwell on

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