Churches have been considered “safe spaces” throughout history, offering sanctuary from all kinds of trouble and hardship, often with no strings attached. While this is certainly being practiced here and there, it no longer has the publicity and important public recognition that it once had. Can Creator share why this is so?

While to some extent this is due to cultural changes reflecting modern living and the increasing affluence, in the developed nations at least, the greatest reason for the change in things has been the secular movement, and the attendant drift away from religious expression even by believers, who have drifted away from formal worship services and institutions that provide a way to express religious beliefs. This is quite a loss. It is true that religions have become corrupted through the ages by the darkness to add disconcerting types of negativity and dogma that is antithetical to the desires of Creator to be a source of love and propagate love throughout humanity and beyond. There are many factors at work here. The historical corruption to make believers accept the idea that spiritual work should be offered for nothing and that a truly devout religious should live in poverty, have reduced the means of the religious institutions despite some accumulations of great wealth. All now are in decline because of loss of attendance and this is owing to corruption, but is working against the cause of the divine and humans are the losers, as always. This has greatly reduced the possibility of religious institutions supporting charitable works to the same extent as they have in the past when church attendance and tithing to create a source of income were much more widely practiced. This is a loss to humanity as well as those institutions themselves, because their loss in effectiveness is taking a toll on humanity and its progress. It is not that formal religion is the only path to achieving divine alignment and having a partnership with the divine. That one can do solely on one’s own, but coming together as a group adds power because when people work in concert with one another of like mind, more will get done, the power of intention will be magnified, and a divine response will be more certain, more swift, and more profound when people come together wanting the same things to happen. That unity of purpose is not beyond your reach. If anything, it can be facilitated more surely in today’s world with the advent of mass communications via the Internet, to provide a means of achieving a very broad outreach so much can be done on a mass scale, if people can be awakened and have an opportunity to learn enough about what is needed to motivate them to act. All who hear these words have a choice to make—to turn away and forget what they have heard or make a commitment to the cause of the divine to do what they can to raise up themselves and others through prayer and healing. This will make a difference and is the only way humanity can prevail.