/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

Reminder that these retards have no idea about the occult and are literal normies when it comes to witchcraft.

If you don't know, traditional Wicca is white magic and hexxing people is not accepted

>>744927

https://aeon.co/essays/will-new-age-ideas-help-us-in-the-high-tech-future

>It’s not coincidental that the earliest calls for a ‘New Age’ of spiritual awakening coincided with the Industrial Revolution. Or that the triumph of a more formalised and commoditised New Age movement in the second half of the 20th century converged with the rise of television infomercials, books on tape, local‑access cable channels, and the early internet. Today, New Age aesthetics and modes of thought have filtered into mainstream society, influencing everything from the rise of alternative medicine (a $34 billion industry, by one recent estimate) to the triumph of yoga in the suburbs.

>Meanwhile, formal religious affiliation is on the decline in the Western world, but this rejection of traditional organised religion does not imply a rejection of spirituality. Instead, it has created a vacuum in which the eclecticism and vagueness of the New Age movement emerge as strengths rather than weaknesses. Which begs the question: if the early modern era witnessed a ‘decline of magic’ and a rise in institutionalised religious affiliation, are we now witnessing the opposite?

>As the historian Paul Kléber Monod has pointed out in his book Solomon’s Secret Arts (2013), the Enlightenment was obsessed with the occult. From Isaac Newton (whom the British economist John Maynard Keynes called ‘not the first of the age of reason’ but ‘the last of the magicians’) to the secret societies of the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons and the Bavarian Illuminati, we find a culture simultaneously obsessed with attaining a perfect mastery over nature and the universal patterns pervading all spiritual traditions. Monod told me that he believes there is a ‘direct link’ between these occult movements of the late Enlightenment and the New Age movements of the present day.

It's not surprising.

Stuff like this has been happening in a predictible way since the time of Lincoln, when the fedora-lite atmosphere of deism gave way to people that were big into seances and stuff.

Rinse and repeat every century.

That's interesting is that it usually turn into big christian revival movements within a decade or 2, which is good.

Seriously, sometimes i believed the "jews abandon God, bad and occult stuff happens, jews beg God to come back" narrative in the OT was heavy-handed.

But no, people ARE this ciclycally predictable and retarded.

>>744968

Btw, read the article.

It's really interesting.

>>744927

Despite what fedoras might have you believe, the west isn't becoming more atheist. Rather as your article shows, people are just moving away from Christianity into new age and witchcraft bullshit. It's one of the ultimate forms of degeneracy in the west now being "spiritual but not religious".

>>745287

Cool. Now get out.

>>744927

>an estimated 1.5 million Americans now identifying as witches - more than the total number of Presbyterians

I'm surprised there were that many female virgins in the world.

>>744962

>traditional wicca

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