In the mid 200's, when Christian monasticism first started, it was in response the the growing popularity and subsequent watering down of Christianity. In short, those Christians who were working very hard to make every aspect of their lives be in agreement with the faith, felt forced to flee from the growing worldliness and temporality of "pop" Christianity. Their response was to run away.
What then should we do? It seems that while arguably, the United States was started as a Christian county, the US has become a melting pop of easy believism and ecumenism. It is very easy to be a very passive and milquetoast Christian (if there is such a thing). Do we follow the example of the monks of the Egyptian desert and flee from this bastardized American version of the faith? What is the right response?
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