Once again, Pope Benedict tells it like it is ...

Materialism Is Man's "Eternal Temptation," Says Pope

The "living and personal" God "is at the center of authentic faith," Benedict XVI told the 50,000 people who crowded into St. Peter's Square on a sunny morning.

"His presence is effective and salvific," the Pope said, "the Lord is not an immobile and absent reality, but a living person who guides his faithful, having compassion for them, and sustaining them with his power and love."

At the opposite end is "idolatry, … expression of a deviant and deceitful religiosity," he said. "In fact, the idol is nothing other than a work of men's hands, a product of human desires and, therefore, impotent to exceed creaturely limits. It does have a human form with a mouth, eyes, ears, throat, but it is inert, lifeless, as is the case, precisely, of an inanimate statue."

"The destiny of one who worships these dead realities is to become like them, impotent, fragile, inert," warned the Bishop of Rome.

That's what I see when people worship the state, celebrities, and ourselves. We place all of our trust in governments and entertainment too keep us happy and comfortable for the rest of our lives. To live a real life we must follow Chirst. This "city of man" that we're building now is not going to last. Because of sin, everything we do is fatally flawed, only in God will we be complete.