Sounds of Silence ring true................................

On the nyc subway reading Ellul,
My eyes chanced upon a billboard decrying
"God hears you", "God is concerned with your troubles",
among hundreds of similar modern heresies. "The words of the prophet
were written on the subway walls"."  The Church in
question was using God to attract members, obviously.  Was it to
save people?  Or was it to promote their own goals.  Of course the
answer is just what Ellul would describe as technology serving itself.
For indeed, Mass propagandizing has no other effect than to serve itself.
It wouldn't be mass propaganda if it didn't.  Sadly, the last surviving bulwark
against the erosion of spirituality has succumbed.  Armageddon is around the corner my friends.........