{"id":36961,"date":"2024-02-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omnesmag.com\/?p=36961"},"modified":"2024-01-31T13:58:30","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T11:58:30","slug":"new-age-and-pseudo-religions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omnesmag.com\/en\/recursos\/new-age-y-pseudo-religiones\/","title":{"rendered":"What are new age and pseudo religions?"},"content":{"rendered":"
The development of the personality of the human being has a spiritual component to fully correspond to his nature. This goes beyond the mere fact of not being only matter, and makes him look for a religion -in a broad sense- understanding it as that desired reality where he can hope and deposit his desires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Our survival instinct is linked to the awareness of the passing of time, and of the fact that the future may come; something that does not happen to the rest of animals, the non-rational ones. This is precisely what makes man a seeker of the meaning of his life, which transcends the immediate, the earthly, the ephemeral and passing. That is precisely where religion -as we say, in a broad sense- comes to the fore, fulfilling such yearnings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now, the true religion can only be one, for religions contradict each other, and the truth can only be in one place. If one says that Goya was born in Spain and another says that he was born in Sweden, it is evident that they cannot both be right at the same time. One of the two is undoubtedly wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It would be absurd to think that God has revealed several contradictory religions. The only true religion is the one that God has revealed, and we can know it by certain signs, such as the miracles of Jesus Christ. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It turns out that the Catholic religion was founded by Christ-God; all the others were founded by men. Neither Buddha, nor Confucius, nor Mohammed, nor Luther claimed to be God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jesus Christ Himself affirmed repeatedly in His life that He was God, and from that condition He founded only one Church, which is holy, catholic and apostolic. All other churches and religions are wrong: some, like Buddhism, because they do not recognize the true God; others, like Protestantism, because they separated from the original and true Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But, apart from religions, we have other realities that are not religions, and that nevertheless come to take the place of those. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In order to focus the discourse, we will refer to the phenomenon of the new age<\/em> -This is not a religion, nor a church, nor a sect, nor a fixed doctrine, but a way of seeing, thinking and acting that many people and organizations have adopted to change the world according to beliefs they have in common. For these people, this is their religion.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
How to identify a pseudo-religious reality of the new age<\/em>?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
The objective of the new age<\/em> is to introduce man to what its ideologues call a new paradigm, that is, a totally different way of seeing oneself and perceiving reality. The most outstanding characteristic of the new age<\/em>The result of all their beliefs is religious, spiritual and moral relativism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
What it promotes is manifested in music, in cinema, in literature, in the field of self-help, in some therapies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is about pushing Humanity towards a new spiritual current, and to procure a new era or epoch -new age<\/em>- for the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n