Monks And Today's Society
The strict ideals taken by Christian Monasticism (Monks, etc.) are
quite different from those views or values that are taken in the modern day
United States. A majority of the United States citizens, today, are more
likely to have values that are opposite of those seen through the three
monastic vows (poverty, chastity, and obedience).
As a whole the inhabitants of these monasteries (Monasticism as a
whole) discipline themselves, through the three vows, in order to reach a
high spiritual purity. In other words, their strict discipline was to
obtain a closeness to God th ....
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