 Or it can take more subtle forms of indulgence, like gorging on delicious food, impulse buying, binging Netflix. Though these two options seem opposite, detachment and indulgence are in fact two sides of the same bad coin. Both are in the end attempts to escape the pain of what Christianity recognizes as a reality of a fallen world. But our best attempts to escape are, however, futile. In this broken world, death and decay are inevitable.