Throughout history people have fit into three categories: slaves, slaveholders, and free men.
The Communist movements and subsequent revolutions of the 20th century were formed from an ideology based on a kernel of historical truth: the wealthy and powerful minority (bourgeoisie) exploit the poor and weak majority (proletariat). From this truth the Communists reasoned that the best way for the proletariat to escape oppression of the bourgeoisie was to seize control of the means of production in a violent revolution. They used this framework to destroy the exploiters with the intention of providing for the exploited what was withheld. The precedent of human nature proved itself repeatable; once seizing power the Communists quickly filled the vacuum with their own insidious organization. The Communist party was more vicious and unforgiving than the previous government! The exploited class was now at the mercy of their merciless new leaders, and one generation later made slaves by their new masters.
In similar fashion to today's America, there is a (political) emphasis on the physical slavery from the country's past, strategically used as a hyperbolic bludgeon with which one political party uses to beat the other. By claiming to act on behalf of this oppressed minority, the modern political party is guaranteed their support in a voting block. The party creates an ideology based around the true historical fact of slavery, and rallies the block to vote on the party's behalf. With the help of the voting block the party wins the election and the block believes--through the lens of the ideology supplied by the party--that their community will also benefit.
But the party is sinister, the adherents gullible. The party ideology is a empty box with pretty wrapping paper, a bow on top and a sandbag inside. The aim of the party's ideology is to train the block to accept emptiness as fullness, its lies as truth. The block does this because it trusts the party's talking points and media mouthpieces, all of which support its ideology. Without realizing it, the block is in mental servitude to the party. Mankind is wired to yearn for a meaning that politics is not meant to provide, and with their evil aims these cunning political leaders and develop their ideologies to filter divine morality into an agreeable, "modern" morality.
For politicians, claiming divinity is unnecessary for the sophisticated, secularized American masses they represent and can use vague calls to "a higher power" instead. Cunning leaders of large, traditional cults like Scientology and LDS operate outside of the mainstream in their own little kingdoms, and are therefore not beholden to the same secular rules that apply to public office. Cults offer completely created answers to man's wired questions of meaning and origin, and cult leaders combine the familiarity of God's word and place themselves at the center of worship. These leaders employ methods of persuasion to create intimate relationships with their members to keep them in a mode of obedience and self-exploitation. Although all modern Americans are promised freedom from (illegal) physical slavery, the law cannot protect our minds from enslavement by cults, ideologies and addiction to materials and substances.
These methods of mental enslavement are weapons in evil's arsenal for separating men from God, then replacing God with man. By evil's design this is accomplished invisibly as people accustomed to abundance don't realize that they are replacing God with an intense material obsession. They do not worship God as He desires, and opt for their possessions and desires instead. The world has endless, appealing material wonders and even "sophisticated" individuals can find themselves valuing material possessions over God and therefore in a cult.
Anything that replaces worship of the creator is slavery, especially if it is pleasurable.That is Satan's invisibility replacing God. By no fault of his own, mankind is susceptible to this slavery, and only obedience to God can save him.
I am using 'cult' loosely to make a point, and I am not saying that sports or desserts cannot be enjoyed. (Although cult churches and ideologies should be avoided.) They must be enjoyed in moderation and come after proper acknowledgement (worship) of God. If not, sports players become the center of attention and worship, the pleasure of alcohol, drugs, and games become an individual's driving force. Worse, a false version of God, either in material or supernatural form, becomes the version that we worship.
While not everyone has a calling to devote their professional lives in the service of God to help those less fortunate, everyone is expected to make little sacrifices in our worship. These little sacrifices ground us and remind us that the material world and material wealth is not everything. This frees us from the slavery of material possessions and from becoming enslaved by a mortal master persuader.
The less we acknowledge God, the easier it is to forget about God. Then we replace God with materials. Or false gods. When the finite material of our obsession runs out--as everything in our reality runs out in some way--or we realize the lies of our false gods, we re left with questions of origin, morality, meaning....
Then we find out: are we slaves or slaveholders? The free men already know who they are.
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