THE EROTIC IS RAPIDLY DISPLACING THE SPIRITUAL

                                              By A. W. Tozer

            Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts,
             we should live soberly, righteously, and godly,in this
             present world.                         -  -  Titus 2:12.

                The period in which we now live may well go down in history
             as the Erotic Age.  Sex love has been elevated into a cult.  Eros
             has more worshipers among civilized men today than any other
             god.  For millions, the erotic has completely displaced the spiritual!

                Contributing factors are the phonograph and radio, which can
             spread a love song from coast to coast within a matter of days;
             the motion picture and television, which enable a whole population
             to feast their eyes on sensuous women and amorous young men
             locked in passionate embrace  (and this in the living rooms of
             "Christian"  homes and before the eyes of innocent children!).

                Add to these the myriad of shrewdly contrived advertising
             campaigns which make sex the not too slyly concealed bait to
             attract buyers for almost every imaginable  product;  and
             degraded columnists who have consecrated their lives to the task
             of the publicizing of soft, slinky nobodies with the faces of angels
             and the morals of alley cats.

                Now if this god Eros would let us Christians alone, I for one
             would let his cult alone, for the whole spongy, fetid mess will sink
             some day under its own weight and become excellent fuel for the
             fires of hell.  But the cult of Eros is seriously affecting the
             Christian church.

                When God's sheep are in danger, the shepherd is morally obliged
             to grab his weapon and run to their defense.  For much of this
             century timidity disguised as humility has crouched in her corner,
             while the spiritual quality of evangelical Christianity has become
             progressively worse year by year.  How long, 0 Lord, how long?
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             Yours in Christ,
             Paul N. F.