Posted on 03/15/2003 7:02:09 PM PST by vannrox
She discovered she had breast cancer and decided to treat it with tea bags. Whatever. It's too bad I can't take out a life insurance policy on her.
If you even have to ask this question means you have not one clue about Jesus or your own religion.
Yes, what I want is a church without principles! That's the ticket!
When the Burning Man - attended by a motley assortment of hippies, acidheads and eco-warriors - is set alight every Labour Day in the Nevada Black Rock desert, his destruction has obvious parallels to ideas of atonement theology, where sin is taken up and appropriated into God through Christ's self-sacrifice on behalf of humanity.
Well, the Black Mass also has elements of atonement theology, I suppose. Personally, I always thought Burning Man was extremely creepy, on the order of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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In my entire life I have yet to find anything that applied the term holistic to itself that wasn't nuts.
Because "New Age" practices and beliefs are rooted in the occult and there is nothing new about them.
This the crux of the problem. It doesn't matter whether a practice is inspiring. It doesn't matter how much good a false religion has in it.
What matters...The only thing that matters... is whether or not a religion is ordained by the Creator and reconciles the creation to the Creator.
A religion that produces super relaxed socially acceptable and responsible citizens that are distanced from their creator is vain, worthless, harmful, deadly on an eternal scale.
I'm reminded of the Jim Jones cult. If you watched the documentary, they preached love and acceptance like crazy. And they took people in warts and all. In a practical sense, they out-Christianed the Christians. And they grew. And then they all committed suicide because their foundation was not the Creator but a charismatic and deranged man. A man who spun a web that was 98% truth, had some excellent practices in it, but that 2% lie was a whopper.
I'm also reminded of Islam. Our public school taught my 6 year old daughter in kindergarden that in Islam people gave to the poor during Ramadan. Giving to the poor is a good practice, who can argue that. However, it doesn't redeem Islam, which teaches it's people to hate the Jews and Christians and not to be friends with them. Moreover, it rejects Jesus which comdemns Islam's followers to hell as they will stand before God and account for their works without the shield of forgiveness.
Some of the practices that New Age does such as relaxation techniques or self improvement or mere practices that the New Age movement has appropriated. Some of these practices are not bad and are in fact good. But other practices within the New Age movement such as Astrology, Spiritism, Witchcraft, etc are horrible terrible sins which the Creator has warned bear very serious consequences. So having some good practices does not redeem the New Age.
On the other hand, the New Age does not make a practice evil simply because they have chosen to incorporate it. Self-help movements were around long before the New Age movement. Similarly, the gays have appropriated the color purple. Does that make the color purple bad? No, The gays have no right to a color that God made, let them make their own color.
Wow. That's really sad.
The only time I've seen a breast cancer patient turn down chemo was a pregnant women. She wouldn't abort. Told me she would die for her child and she did.
If she's not in heaven, I don't know who is.
Imagine that. A church stuck to principle?!? We can't have that now. Everyone has to be one big happy family believing in some sort of deity that has no power, no condemnation for sin, and encourages us to do whatever makes us happy. Hey wait a minute!! That sounds a lot like....
Same ol', same ol'. Repackaged, reformed, and still trying to get Christians not to be so much of a stick in the mud. Thanks, but no thanks Mr. Wright. If you bothered to pick up a Bible (found in one of those churches that sticks to principles), you'd see even less than 100 years after Christ's first visit, the devil was trying to delude Christians with the same message. I'll stick to my ol' time country Southern Baptist church where God's message is taught
I believe the Bible invites the reader to compare the truths held within to the events of their lives and human history. This is one of the greatest strengths of The Word in my humble opinion. As a result it would be very hard for new age mumbo-jumbo to compete with Judeo-Christian principles on their own turf.
That is, unless you simply forsake truth for all the emotional gratification promised by the earth/goddess/wikka/wookie/gaia followers. It is a hollow gratification but is delivered instantly.
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This comment should be enshrined on buildings throughout the country.
That's too bad. I tell you I've seen some pretty bad ones myself. We lived in Asheville NC (Dan Rather called it the new 'New Age Capitol of the World' back in 96 or so) and there were people that caught up on everything from crystals to tones to rubbing all sorts of strange things on oneself as some sort of cure. These 'doctors', especially the ones involved in tone therapy, would sell packages starting at $1000, that guaranteed curing just about anything. And they had a booming business as well. Southern Living magazine back in the mid 80s named it some sort of retreat and the place filled up with old folks from Florida (locals called 'em half-backs) looking for a place to retire. I guess these quacks just followed the money
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