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Rage Against the New Age Machine: Three Days at the Osho International Meditation Resort

…rsity offered then, as it still does, a wide range of spiritual, mystical, New Age and therapeutic teachings and practices. During our stay, guests could experience centering, energy balancing, massage, astrology, breathing, hypnosis, counseling, neo-Reichian bodywork and workshops on laughing and crying, seeking the feminine, primal feelings and family dynamics. Classes were an hour but courses could take weeks or months. Prices were consistent w…

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How America Really Lost Its Mind: Hint, It Wasn’t Entirely the Fault of Hippie New Agers and Postmodern Academics

…0s that would become the primary sources of American unreality were hippie New Age hostility to science and reason, and the new academic fashion of postmodern relativism. The former was tolerant of all kinds of outlandish ideas, often non-Western imported religious fragments, and challenged the presumptions of conventional psychiatry and medicine; this emergent counterculture was a “new generation of longhaired hyperindividualists who insist on tr…

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Pelosi Attacker’s New Age Spirituality and Belief in QAnon is no Contradiction

…lity.” What are called conspiracy theories by outside observers operate in new age spirituality as a form of theodicy for why their predicted new age of peace, light, and love has yet to emerge. There’s a long history of right-wing esotericism informing the “secret teachings” that DePape espoused, drawing together UFOs, Atlantis, and antisemitism. The Manichaean understanding of world politics and history as determined by a battle between the forc…

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The Vatican v. Protestant Free Thinkers

…mological configuration” that “eventually prevailed in the modern period.” New Math, New Science, New Protestants The point is that the really seismic changes at the Vatican all came in the 15th and 16th centuries, the age that just so happened to encompass the Protestant rebellion and the emergence of modern science at once. But by the 17th century, mathematics—and specifically mathematical physics—achieved a dominance that overturned the main in…

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Will a New Dawkins Foundation-Sponsored App Help Atheists Talk to Believers?

…erving as Chaplain and Technology Integrator at St. Thomas’s Day School in New Haven. Safy-Hallan Farah, an editor in Minnesota, was raised Muslim and currently identifies as Muslim. But, she said, “I don’t necessarily subscribe to every tenet of the faith. I would say I’m all over the place and very much a passive believer.” Farah said she was a huge Dawkins fan when she considered herself an atheist in her late teens, but she found the New Athei…

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Evangelical Groundhog Day: The ‘Times’ Identifies the ‘Religious Fervor in the American Right’ — Around Four Decades Late

…y seeks to force itself upon the rest of us—whom they view as lost sinners, heretics, non-believers, witches, and infidels. Evangelical theopolitics isn’t new. Praise-singing crusaders aren’t new. What is new is that they may well be winning. ### This essay first appeared on The Cottage and is republished with the generous permission of the author….

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Is Zionism No Longer Able to Offer Solutions to the Present Reality?

…it enables liberal Zionists to remain “troubled and yet committed.” Not a new reality, a new story What Hartman is trying to do in his essay is make liberal Zionists relevant again; to make them part of a conversation that now largely excludes them. He argues that liberal Zionists should simply ignore the anti-Zionist “untroubled uncommitted.” While I disagree with his assessment that much of that group traffics in antisemitism (certainly some do…

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Putting the “Protest” Back in Protestant: Reclaiming the Spirit of Resistance

…during the 1950s to form a unified, unifying, and unabashedly progressive new denomination: the United Church of Christ. But the new body never quite took off. Lots of big Congregational churches, on both the most liberal and most conservative margins, refused to sign up for the new configuration in 1957. The more liturgical “German” Reformed wing (the old Evangelical and Reformed Church) mistrusted the Yankees and vice versa. Today’s UCC, at 1.3…

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Pope Backs Anti-Gay Referendum; Islamic State Executions Include Gay Syrian; ‘Conscience Clause’ Debated in Northern Ireland; Global LGBT Recap

…gister: “The only Anglophone nominee is Archbishop John Dew of Wellington, New Zealand. In 2005, he advocated a new ‘pastoral approach’ for allowing divorced-and-civilly-remarried Catholics to receive Communion. During last year’s synod on the family, he also voiced his support for a change in language when ministering to persons with same-sex attraction.” Archbishop Alberto Suárez Inda of Morelia, Mexico On same-sex couples adopting children, quo…

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Virginians may Vote in Elections, But in Counties with Militias Democracy Hangs in the Balance

…es State of Emergency in Advance of Pro-gun Rally near State Capitol,” CBS News, January 15, 2020. [68] Ned Oliver and Graham Moomaw, “As Virginia Democrats advance new gun restrictions, militias organize, promising to resist,” Virginia Mercury, January 13, 2020; Hannah Hall, “Augusta County supervisors will not approve plan for militia,” WHSV3 News, February 25, 2020; Autumn Childress, “Rockingham County Supervisors Reject Unorganized Militia Pro…

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