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If we are researching New Age and Christianity as possible sources of truth and a place for ourselves spiritually, let us look at the big picture for clarity. Christianity is presented in debates on websites from a top-down theologically correct view that discredits any other view as being satanic and misleading spiritually. That is what you would expect from a religion-promoting organization seeking to increase its membership as its highest priority, not the individual. That mindset is part of their levels of understanding about truth and personal, individual spiritual growth. Mainstream religion serves God and their organization by forcing the individual to conform to their views and mindset. Their objective is not an individual’s refinement, or of helping them find themselves as God created.
Mainstream Christianity claims the true objective of human development is to have a right relationship with God, be saved and living in participation in a religious organization. For those who need an outside governing presence to make them feel complete, that is fine. However, there are others who are seeking a truth about themselves and life’s purpose who see Humankind’s spiritual direction differently. For these people, the search for meaning is far too broad than to be defined in learning a theology and in weekly religious participation. Moreover, it is for these people that we attempt to lay out a roadmap for their search they can carry out. We see the purpose of us as individuals as bigger than to have a right relationship with God through a religion. We see our purpose as being in a right relationship with ourselves as the highest objective. That can be found in our setting, our vocation, our gifts, our relationships, and finally in our interests as well.
Secondarily it is through this right relationship with ourselves we will achieve the right relationship with God, who created us to find and be our unique self. That is how it works. For some that is in being in a religion, not because religion is right, but because the religious setting, views and personality are within them already. When we look at this vast sea of Humankind, we see the big picture. It is made up of billions of individuals all with different gifts, talents, viewpoints, and desires when put together, make Humankind complete and beautiful. The religious community is small compared to the roles we are created to fill throughout Humankind. Christianity calls it the sinful world of the lost, New Age calls it the place where we are created to go, find ourselves and joyously share our gifts and talents with all of Humankind.
We discovered one amazing thing: Some of the most spiritually complete people have never been in any religion or church in their lives. Alternatively, some of the worst predatory and reptilian people and organizations are Christians and churches. All through history, religious culture has as bad a human rights record as any dictatorship on Earth, all continents included. How does this happen? What does it mean?
Obviously correct religious understanding does not improve a person’s human character. It only promotes the organization teaching it to a position of power to rule the believers of it. So, what is the goal of Humankind’s advancement? It is not only in religion through theological correctness as all religions claim. The goal of Humankind’s advancement is the acquisition of character, honor, and virtue of personhood. Religion can be a vehicle to gain and teach that, but that is only in a small percentage of religious organizations. The source of character, honor and virtue of personhood has been present in Humankind long before religion was ever created by man.
Those two sources of these qualities are The Common Man and Motherhood only. In other words, good individuals living good, moral, boundary-respecting lives and being copied by others learning to do so. The common man and motherhood were created by God, inserted into Humankind since the first family formed in Africa a quarter million years ago. You do not need a religion, any religion to teach or acquire character, it can be taught separately by itself. Character is taught by example mostly, rarely by instruction. Religion is taught by academia and scholastic achievement through religious universities to get close to God. Character is the acting out of a person being their own unique most authentic self. Most of the highest achieved examples of what an individual should become I have ever known have never been in a college or in a church in their lives. Alternately the worst people I have ever known are the highest achieved academically and most advanced in a church. They are the greatest Christians, but they are also the worst human beings. They have no character and hate lesser people who demonstrate the highest character.
New Age perspective recognizes character as the highest achievement for an individual, because it satisfies all the objectives God wills for his highest creation to become. New Age perspective encourages immersion into Humankind by the individual to share their character in them with others. Christianity encourages withdrawal from Humankind and isolating one’s gifts from others as the highest achievement of an individual. Almost always Christianity leads to self-righteous cynicism of others outside the church, looking down on them as being lost and sinners without Christ. New Age teaches the opposite, to see the good in each other and encourages us to help each other to be the best individuals we can be. Christianity hates good works; New Age loves good works and encourages us to do as much as we can and to take care of those who cannot care for themselves. These are the differences between the two camps, which camp appeals to you?
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