Because we lack a divine Center our need for security has led us into an insane attachment to things.
We should all without shame enrol in the school of contemplative prayer.
Giving with glad and generous hearts has a way of routing out the tough old miser within us. Even the poor need to know that they can give. Just the very act of letting go of money, or some other treasure, does something within us. It destroys the demon greed.
It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible.
reject anything that is producing an addiction in you.
The message from all quarters is the same: our undisciplined consumption must end. If we continue to gobble up our resources without any regard to stewardship and to spew out our deadly wastes over land, sea, and air, we may well be drawing down the final curtain upon ourselves.