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Materialism prioritizes physical matter and rejects spirituality. It has led humanity to focus on exploits like exploring nature but has also caused depravities through obscenity, vulgarity, and lack of moral values promoted by media. Materialism destroys spiritualism by disenchanting people and creating a vacuum of purpose. It breeds an amoral society and perverse behaviors by suffocating gentleness. Ultimately, materialism's philosophy of determinism creates a feeling of despair over human existence and agency.
Materialism prioritizes physical matter and rejects spirituality. It has led humanity to focus on exploits like exploring nature but has also caused depravities through obscenity, vulgarity, and lack of moral values promoted by media. Materialism destroys spiritualism by disenchanting people and creating a vacuum of purpose. It breeds an amoral society and perverse behaviors by suffocating gentleness. Ultimately, materialism's philosophy of determinism creates a feeling of despair over human existence and agency.
Materialism prioritizes physical matter and rejects spirituality. It has led humanity to focus on exploits like exploring nature but has also caused depravities through obscenity, vulgarity, and lack of moral values promoted by media. Materialism destroys spiritualism by disenchanting people and creating a vacuum of purpose. It breeds an amoral society and perverse behaviors by suffocating gentleness. Ultimately, materialism's philosophy of determinism creates a feeling of despair over human existence and agency.
Your honour, materialism means that physical matter is the only reality and that everything, including thought, feeling, mind, and will, can be explained in terms of matter and physical phenomena. It rejects spiritualism, a philosophy, doctrine, or religion emphasizing the spiritual aspect of being. All progress of man speaks of his exploits in materialism. He has looked in the volcano, dived into the ocean, perforated the earth, winged its flight into the skies, explored sea and land, contemplated the distant, examined the minute, comprehended the great and ascended to the sublime of progress. But at the same time this material progress has caused man to suffer from many depravities and led him to many disastrous ends. It is the same belief in the matter that has engulfed the world in the tornado of obscenity and vulgarity on the wings of the Internet and television where half nude girls garlanding their arms around the backs of half conscious youth are its representatives. Then there are the drunkards dancing excitedly to this crime against humanity. The sweet songs of this civilization are those that produce only thrill or show the nude scenes. As the materialism is based on the dictates of reason alone so it has put the humanity on road to barbarism and brutality. It has changed the shape of the earth as well as man. It has banished spirituality from its so-called sophisticated Coke town. Your honour, materialism is the death of the fruits of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, long suffering, gentleness, patience and goodness. Materialism is a method, disharmonises the inherent balance of nature and creates insurmountable ecological problems, sells our souls in the manner of Faust to gain control over the forces of nature, throws overboard the values and beliefs which swayed the human mind for centuries, leads to the erosion of spiritual and moral values. materialism pours the sweet milk of concord into hell, uproars the universal peace, confounds all unity on earth, encourages practice of arrogance, greed, murder, breaking agreements, lying, hypocrisy, vilification, ethnic cleansing, injustice and cowardice. Therefore mmaterialism is the death of the spiritualism. Your honour, devoid of the most cherished certainties of life, we are left groping in doubt and confusion. Faced with moral dilemmas, we have been compared to “ignorant armies clashing by night on a darkening plain”, wistfully reminiscent of an age when “the sea of faith was full”. The vacuum of moral values, together with mounting violence, injustice and exploitation, have disenchanted sensitive minds and alienated them from the rhythms of purposeful existence. Materialism destroys the fruit of spiritualism in any form whether you show your patience as a woman nursing a fretful child, or as a man attending to the vexing detail of a business, or as a physician following the dark mazes of sickness, or as a mechanic fitting the joints and valves of a locomotive. Your honour, desperate pursuit of material ends cause death to spiritual values and a sense of purpose. The frantic pursuit of materialism creates an amoral society which suffocates gentleness and affability. Spirituality gives a native, unaffected ease to the behaviour; far removed from the cloudy and illiberal disposition of materialism which clouds the brow, sharpens the temper, and dejects the spirit. Materialism breeds perverse forms of sexual behaviour, child abuse and neglect of the elderly, the institution of the family, which not only embodies human feelings of love, filial devotion and parental care but also serves as the sheet anchor of social stability. The materialism has its roots in the philosophy of determinism which subjects man to external forces which may be the laws of the physical world, as Newton showed; or adaptation to the natural environment as a principle of the evolution of species, as Darwin proved; or changes in the mode of production as a determinant of human history, as Marx demonstrated; or the vast zone of unconscious out of which human actions spring, as Freud maintained. This way of thinking has spawned a feeling of despair and futility of human existence. The depletion of the natural environment, the erosion of moral and spiritual values, the onslaught of materialism and nationalism, the mad stampede for power projection in the face of desperate hunger and disease faced by millions of people around the globe, brutal power struggles, wreaking death and destruction on millions of people are some of the sordid aspects of an amoral society based on the philosophy of materialism. Your honour, when evil spirits of oppression, despotism, tyranny and scarlet sin engulf us, when dark forces of injustice, wickedness and naked aggression are let loose over us; when basic values are trampled, mutilated, caricatured, distorted, misrepresented, corrupted under the benign movement of enlightenment; when bitter pills of un- Islamic concepts, irreligious attitudes, unethical practices, immoral behaviour are forcibly thrust down the throat; when unsavoury, unacceptable, ruinous changes are introduced at gun point to mar peace; when this wasteland, this nightmarish world is ruled by Lords of the jungle, it is materialism that is taken in and spiritualism is taken out. Your honour, unless we harness ourselves to moral and human values, and commit our energies to constructive purposes, we may well be sitting on a powder keg, running the risk of being engulfed by our own clever devices.