SELF-DEIFICATION

Chris Martin, blogger and speaker wrote:

“I think the reason people are meaner than ever these days is because we have arguably never felt more like gods than we do today.

When it feels like almost every single year a new piece of technology is made available or becomes popular that makes it easier to feel like we can rule the world from our recliners, it is inevitable that a late food delivery driver or a teacher who tells us our kid is misbehaving will make us feel uncomfortable, vulnerable, or like our status as more-than-human is being threatened, leading us to lash out at people we perceive as subservient to us.

I think this sort of reality is at the heart of why we’re losing teachers, nurses, and people in other roles that are primarily service-oriented. It isn’t because people are lazy or don’t want to work. It’s because we are increasingly treating people like everyone from Kroger cashiers to local church pastors are really just insubordinate parishioners in our increasingly optimized houses of self-worship.

Self-deification at cost of dehumanization has never been easier or more culturally acceptable.”

Paul, an apostle, wrote: “For through the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think.”
(Romans 12:3)

“The greatest person in the kingdom of heaven is the one who makes himself humble like this child.” Jesus