Part one of term paper
The strict ideals taken by Christian Monasticism (Monks, etc.) are quite different from those views or values that are taken in the modern day United States. A majority of the United States citizens, today, are more likely to have values that are opposite of those seen through the three monastic vows (poverty, chastity, and obedience). As a ...

Part two of term paper
... the worldly things in order to reach their goal of purity. The first of these vows is poverty, which was used to deter the monks from greed and other sins that come from money and material pleasures. Instead of having a lot of money, they got by with enough to live on, which was provided by the monasteries. The second of these vows, chastity, discouraged the monks from sexual desires, by not allowing such things as marriage and sexual indulgement. The last vow in which the monks lived by was obe ...