fallen, fallen is babylon the great

As truly as God is our Father, so truly God is our Mother.

The bourgeois culture thus changed religion instead of changing the world. We protestants reduced the symbols of our religion and shrank them down to our selves, to our personalities. We used the religious notions and symbols for one purpose: to serve the highest value of the bourgeois culture, namely individualism. The starting point of modern economic activity is the individual entrepreneur, and capitalism has managed to eliminate almost any form of cooperative working and possession. Mainstream religion had to bless this process. Thus religion became a tool in the hands of the bourgeois class and functioned only to console the saddened, to enrich the personal life, to give meaning to the individual. Sin became my personal failure, the cross was my unique suffering, and resurrection my individual immortality.

how can we recover what’s lost in Eden?