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- From: max@admin.mport.COM (Max)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
- Message-ID: <2050@admin.mport.COM>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 23:38:31 GMT
- References: <1gud41INNpip@flop.ENGR.ORST.EDU> <1992Dec28.201303.15610@cs.tulane.edu>
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- goff@intruder.navo.navy.mil (Victoria Goff) writes:
-
- >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...
-
- do not take this as "heat", but what you say in the above paragraph dosent
- make sense to me. if you would entertain my questions, id much appreciate
- it, as i have little contact with views you describe here.
-
- * do you claim to mearly have an opinion of the bible you have read, or do
- you claim to know personaly a possibly mythical figure at least 2000years
- old? again, im not baiting you, just curious, as your writing could mean
- either.
-
- * you indicate a possibility that you think the new ageers are
- "masterminded". who or what do you mean?
-
- >What I think you most want to know, considering where you posted this
- >article, is what effect this up and coming religion will have on the
- >dominating culture and I will tell you what I think. Christian persecution,
- >accelerated moral decay as the society is less and less tolerant of anything
- >related to Christianity.
-
- * do you see new age religion in a competition with chrisianity only, or
- with all religions in general?
-
- >May I remind you that the first step of indoctrination to the Chinese
- >when communism was enforced was a crash course on Darwinism; and are
- >we forgetting Hitler who was going to create a master race.
-
- * surely you dont advocate creationism as a defense against this?
-
- >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?
-
- interesting. many people i know have delayed reproducing until they felt
- ready for parenthood. generally this means contraception, and on unhappy
- occasion, it has meant abortion. the children they have had since appear to
- be happy and well reared due to the carefull planning on the part of their
- parents. i would not want to force people to continue a pregnancy they were
- not ready for.
-
- >-Victoria Day Goff
-
- -max
-