The same gifts of emotions that God has given us can become a vehicle of misguided power in our lives. We need the balance and checks of both. The Church that ministers to the mind but not the heart will fail to move people to be passionate in their faith. Many small trade guilds existed in this town a town well known for it's textile and dye industry. Being a blue collar town it was a passionate community.
Passion needs careful monitoring to keep it moving in the right direction.
She took whatever pleased her, even killing a man named Naboth just to give his vineyard to her whiney husband Ahab. A high price would be exacted on anyone that took away her pleasure. She encouraged the Christians to participate at the local temples with the feasts celebrating demons so the people in town would identify with them, and by this build relationships with them. At the outbreak of the Civil war, a Tennessee cotton-planter could not decide which side to support, the North or the South. He had friends on both sides, so he decided to be absolutely neutral.