A Course in Miracles
Gettin’ your groove on and makin’ yo “Va-jay-jay” smile with Oprah…
I’d be willing to bet Oprah’s Jesus laughs a lot, like the picture above, and he is rich too. Anyone who watches Oprah, a woman I find likable BTW, knows she is big into New Age religious concepts, freedom of choice for women - from self-cultivation to killing their unborn children - just don’t mutilate the “Va-jay-jay” by female circumcision. Spirituality, philosophy, life, is all about fulfilling the self with Oprah. That is not to deny she does much good with her charities and kindnesses to strangers, not to mention the political career of elitist presidential candidate, Barack Obama.
The point is, Oprah does a lot of good, she also promotes some crazy New Age religious ideas, along with her women’s sexuality courses her shows sometimes become. I’ve come across a couple of blogs that pretty much rip Oprah to shreds because of her New Age spirituality, as well as her continual self-promotion through her magazine, and the financial power she wields. One blogspot suggested she could be the anti-Christ. (Which is what I think made Jesus laugh in the picture above.)
False doctrine in your own neighborhood.
Bigger news is that she is corrupting America with her new series based upon “A Course In Miracles” - the popular pop-psyche/New Age/cult spirituality thing that has been around for years. (I remember reading that a Trappist monk I knew was using Marianne Williamson’s books and loved the spirituality he found there - that and Centering Prayer turned me off to Trappists ever since.)
Anyway - I’ve gotten emails about this, bloggers and Christian websites have written about it, that Oprah is doing this ant-Christian spirituality series on her radio show. A friend contacted Snopes to see what they knew about it. They responded that essentially Oprah’s promotion of the “Course” is really a personal thing on her part and that the ACIM program has been a best seller for a long time; some people like it, some don’t, - although people are free to not listen to the program.
I think Christians, especially Catholics, have more important things to worry about than a television personality’s accommodation of New Age Christianity. Catholics ought to be far more alarmed by dissident parishes teaching erroneous doctrine, invalid baptisms, the secularization of Catholic education, and - oh boy - bishops and priests and women religious who teach the same crap as Oprah. How stupid are we, anyway?
To read the Snopes piece, go here.
