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When I first heard Hitch refer to certain splinter cells of (any) religion as "cafeteria" I didn't know what he was talking about. I do now, and in fact, I've been seeing it used more often. This morning one author said that after Vatican II some Catholics referred to the change as bringing on cafeteria Catholicism. Then I saw it used again in this book review and interview. So awesome.
Wow. That is sooooo epic. Dude why not say watcha really wanna say. C'mon now, stop beating around that bush that impatient people keep talking about. Read the article, you know, if you want facts-n-shit. I'm going to get down to it and get down with my bitter takedown, beeotches.The book is about the New Age spirituality that is so happening right now. Buddies, I live in Northern California. It is hippie central here. While I'am very fortunate to live in an environment filled with Team Atheist members, the new age spirituality spreads like a wildfire, it's spreading like...cancer (OK, bad joke. sorry). When I work the couple a few three day music festivals every summer this is the stuff that fills lecture halls with 1,000's upon 1,000's (we are all mostly naked, so it's not all that bad). Last year I went to a seminar that talked about crop circles and how some are most certainly fake, but the real ones are meant to inspire us to live a good symbiotic and peaceful life here on da erffs...oh yea, and aliens made them. Anyhoo...
OK, now I'm going to make my point...The author of the book suggests that because New Age spirituality is a watered down (my words) version of Eastern philosophies that 1) makes it dookie, and 2) because these new religions are just bits and pieces taken from other religions (hence, cafeteria) that makes them totally not credible. He said a bunch more stuffs that I thought was pretty cool. You should check out the article.#2 tho. Because said New Age and new religion is a cafeteria of positiveness in the form of watered down Eastern philosophy it accepts anything and everything as a legitimate road to salvation. Nothing gets turned down in the religions of the new spirituality. If it help you become a better, more peaceful and more spiritual person, even if it is aliens telling earthlings to take care of each other and da erffs thru crop circles...then that is OK.
So what's the harm. Why not just shut your stupid atheist mouth Kriss (it's always followed by "You don't know everything." My response is always, "Compared to you I do. Aaaaa). Who cares if coffee enemas do not scientifically work, if the person feels better after (placebo effect) then what's the harm. So what if crystals can't heal you. they're pretty. So what that drunk college kids destroy a dudes corn field to make a cool design that can only be seen from the sky...what if it helps people be better.
Couple of things...false hope, delusional thinking, these endeavors always hurt your pocket book, spreading an incorrect meme/notion/belief-and then it will take skeptics years to overcome that (thanks Jenny McCarthy), it brings us away from scientific knowledge-which I believe is the truthiest knowledge out there, it leads us away from the ultimate-ness of death-and one cannot truly live if not in the moment of this life here on erffs and believe that there will be a better life or lives in the future, and lastly...
...it fuckin' wrong, yo.
* Read the article on Religion Dispatches. So frackin' epic.
* The Vatican II article is good also, but I can't find it. It had good statistics on Gen X'ers (born 65-72) like myself and our religious journey-ies.
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