Христианин на встрече с МакMиром
A Christian in Meeting with McWorld

Summary/Abstract: The term McWorld is associated with many symbols of the modern world as well as with people involved in mass media. Benjamin Barber defines McWorld as a virtual reality constructed by all-powerful networks of highly developed information techniques, reaching beyond national markets based on consumption and profit. They are also corporations that design this world and govern the world economy. What is the situation of the church in this world? In Pastores dabo vobis, John Paul II pointed to moral chaos and ideological confusion, although there are many very positive human behaviours with regard to tragedies of continental or global dimension, such as earthquakes, famine, armed conflicts or epidemics. However, it is worrying that the goals of scientific research lead to the civilization of death and to the improvement of methods of killing, because the basis of McWorld is the erroneous conception of man eliminating God from one’s life as well as the transcendental and moral dimension of man, and its basis is hedonism and consumerism. Conquered by pride, man came to believe in the power of his mind alone and decided that he was the principle and reason of all reality. He professes the death of God and lives as if there were no God.In the McWorld era, Christians cannot succumb to the temptation of postmodernism. Their attitude must be a testimony - as Cardinal Paul Poupard wrote - rooted in the Spirit of God, which is a source of intellect and strength, love, wisdom, piety and the fear of God.

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