Hireling: (noun)–One who works solely for compensation, especially a person willing to perform for a fee; one who is hired, or who serves for wages; esp., one whose motives and interests in serving others are wholly gainful.

Similar: mercenary

Proposition: Spiritual lodestars for sheeple worship, too: themselves.

Empirical observation: Sheeple follow right along, into the pit.

Thought: Willful spiritual blindness exacts costs.

But I don’t see . . .

Do you long to see? Do you actually try?

Exactly.

Behold your god; Ichabod (1 Samuel 4:22).

Remember, dear ones, the truth (Joel 2:12-32).