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- From: bud@mtek.com (Bud Hovell)
- Newsgroups: sci.anthropology
- Subject: Re: Cultural Appropriation and the New Age
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.234725.12132@mtek.com>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 23:47:25 GMT
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- mdouglas@cad067.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Maria Douglas ) writes:
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- >I believe that the New Age movement is the natural result of our
- >cultural "melting pot." Our country was founded on Deism and
- >Freemasonry, not Christianity per se. Deism (if I'm not mistaken)
- >is *similar* to New Age beliefs in that it encompasses all religions
- >and strives to *extract* a universal deity (a *little* like the
- >oversoul in Transcendentalism), a single spirit, as it were.
- >Benjamin Franklin was a Deist and a Freemason, and so was Thomas
- >Jefferson. (I studied Deism in one of my Early American Literature
- >classes a few years ago, since it had such a profound effect on
- >our founding fathers.)
-
- I seem to recall (from study long ago) that Deism was singularly
- characterized by the notion that God had set the original universe
- in motion, but thereafter simply stood back, taking no active part
- in directing subsequent events in this world -- sort of a "cosmic
- laissez faire" doctrine.
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