How Spiritual Snobs Became the New One Percent

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Meh.

It can be satisfying to watch people in ivory towers struggle to get something that cannot be bought with money. But, I suppose they shouldn’t be scoffed at, and that article was a little mean spirited. There are a lot of lost people out there, and of every economic status. I guess they are trying as best they know how.
 
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This spiritual but not religious aspect is dangerous. Pope Benedict said, "We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one’s own ego and one’s own desires. The church must defend itself against threats such as “radical individualism” and “vague religious mysticism”. [emphasis added]

In this mixture of ideas, eastern mysticism prevails just as it did in the 1960s. There were those who hoped Christians in particular would forget about Jesus and embrace what the East had to offer. I walked into a bookstore on the edge of the Wayne State University campus with one wall stacked floor to ceiling with books to help us along the way. I bought none of them in the early 1970s. But here they are, trying to sell the same thing with a few new twists.

Oprah Winfrey was appropriately corrected by a member of her audience after she proclaimed ‘there are many ways to God.’ And may God guide her to the truth.
 
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