[Semper Paratus]

"The success of New Age offers the Church a challenge,"

Yeah but what kind of personal challenge is "If it feels good do it"?

[Voltage]

By spirituality they are probably talking about scented candles.

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[codyjacksmom]

Spirituality is a must. To me, it is a necessity of life. But whoever said shoes can't make a woman happy...hasn't seen my closets. LOL

[scory]

This is precisely the "spirituality" I would expect to be embraced by the Madonna's and Britney's and Cosmo's. Tarot cards and astrology, crystal-gazing and Wiccan ritual. What did the article call it? A "supermarket"?

I expect that as the baby-boom generation comes face-to-face with death in the coming decades that there will be a whole lot of this. Having convinced themselves that fad diets, vitamins, jogging and free health care will somehow deliver immortality and then watching helplessly as their friends and icons start to die off many of these people will be desperately searching for an "answer" that will ease their growing terror. But because so many of them have never bothered to address these matters or were too lazy or indifferent to undertake a real study and practice of actual spirituality they will look for shortcuts and hope for quick fixes. Cosmo and its ilk will be happy to supply these. And they will prosper because the people who finally learn the truth of their situation will no longer be on the scene to complain about the shallow distortions and lies that were peddled to them.

It should be noted however that many of the boomer generation have embraced actual religion and are working to live righteous lives. But they don't write for Cosmo.

[weegee]

"There is clearly a huge number of people who are either disassociated with or disgusted with organised religion but are seeking spirituality by other means," said Steven Waldman, editor-in-chief of Beliefnet in New York.

"They are cutting out the middleman," he said. "It's in the nature of modern society that people are spiritual free agents now."

"Institutions are no longer imposing a message on the faithful," wrote Frederic Lenoir, a French sociologist of religion. "Individuals are freely taking what suits them from various traditions," he added, referring to what is sometimes derided as supermarket spirituality.

Churches holding "same sex marriage" commitment ceremonies, letting openly homosexual ministers serve, and supporting abortion could also have a hand in why some people are losing their "faith" in institutionalized religion. The teachings have been hijacked by socialists who's goal is to tear down the institution of formal religion (formal marriage too, but I digress).

This isn't to create a "new, free world", it is to break peoples' will to defend America. What you knew is gone. Socialists and anarchists will admit that they oppose our constitional form of government if you can get them to open up.

[IronJack]

"I've come to the painful realisation that men and shoes are not enough to make me happy,"

"The key to true contentment lies elsewhere."

what happens now after years of breathless stories about dressing sexy, finding men and having multiple orgasms.

many young women long for something more than the materialist life.

"Lots of women say 'I have a great job, I have a great relationship, so why am I unhappy?',"

Yet, when conservatives said these same things to these same women 20 years ago, they were mocked as hopelessly out of date.

Just like with children, it's amazing how smart your elders get as you get older ... It's also telling that the entire self-indulgence movement -- of which Cosmo is a flagship journal -- responds to aging the same way children do. The implication is that the movement is childish, led by children, and as vain, dangerous, and irresponsible as any child's movement would be.

[presidio9]

[kaylar]

"I've come to the painful realisation that men and shoes are not enough to make me happy," Hannah Borno, the magazine's new Spirituality Editor, wrote in the March edition.

SHOES aren't enough-!?!!!?? What's wrong with her!

[irv]

Frederic Lenoir, a French sociologist of religion

There's so much fodder for humor in this line alone that I almost choked when I read it.

But it's really too sad. All that emphasis on "sprituality" instead of religion. I've never understood how anyone can think that makes any sense at all.

[tlb]

i dont really understand that. i was always told new shoes are good for the sole

[buninoven04]

anyone who owns over 200 pairs of shoes just needs more feet.

[StriperSniper]