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- From: stcmille@panix.com (Steve Miller)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.160435.27085@panix.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 16:04:35 GMT
- References: <1gud41INNpip@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Dec28.201303.15610@cs.tulane.edu>
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- In <1992Dec28.201303.15610@cs.tulane.edu> goff@intruder.navo.navy.mil (Victoria Goff) writes:
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- >New agers do not agree on all the details but they seem to share the
- >view that there is a "oneness" of a spirit and that all religions
- >in some way try to describe it. Therefore, all religions are right
- >in that they describe this spirit from a different perspective.
- >Thus, they are sort of monotheistic.
-
- Ah, *AHEM*, not.
-
-
- >Many Newagers distort Christ's purpose- saying that he was a great teacher,
- >or he was a myth, or he was a alien, but the bible is clear as to who he
- >claimed to be and why he came. The biblical view of Christ cannot be
- >accepted by Newagers.
-
- They say he was an ALIEN!?!?!?! That's EXCELLENT! Can't you just see
- Jesus flying around in a flying saucer? Sounds like a miniseries.
-
- As for the bible being "clear" about who Jesus was an what his mission
- was, well, anybody who says this seriously has either 1) not read the
- bible or 2) not thought about it.
-
-
- >|> Would you say that the New Age in its various manifestations,
- >|> especially in regard to this issue of spiritual appropriation, fits
- >|> within the framework of AFC Wallace's revitalization movement theory?
-
- I'll answer this one. No. It is nothing at all like that.
-
- >I suppose I will add my very unpopular opinion to the subject and I'm
- >sure I'll get some heat. I know the Lord Jesus Christ and so there is
- >no way this Newage religion has any truth to it. I must admit, it does
- >seem to neatly explain everything almost as if it were masterminded...
- >hummmm...
-
- Ain's it wierd, what people believe?
-
-
- >Man is an animal, survival of the fittest euthenasia abortion...this
- >is going to be a cold new world folks. If our parents wanting or not
- >wanting us to be born were the critera to our right to be born, I
- >daresay most of us would not be alive right now. Aren't you glad
- >your parents didn't think that way?
-
- Yes, and isn't it nice to live in one of the few societies in history in
- which handicapped babies aren't routinely abandoned and killed? I guess
- I've wasted enough time on this crap.
-
-
- >-Victoria Day Goff
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