Claiming to be wise,
they became fools...
Romans 1:22
"The 2020 race to the White House has become uncharacteristically religious in recent months.
Amid all this God-talk, only one candidate talks about the spiritual world for a living: Marianne Williamson.
“Memo to the elite: America is a religious nation,” the author and entrepreneur told Religion News Service..... “The lack of a vibrant spiritual conversation is to the detriment of American democracy, because spirituality means the path of the heart.”
Spirituality is key to understanding Williamson’s curious political vision and her atypical path to politics. Since the early 1980s, Williamson, now 66, has had a wildly successful career as a spiritual teacher of “A Course in Miracles,” an esoteric 1976 volume that psychologist Helen Schucman wrote, claiming she was taking dictation from Jesus Christ.
Since 2011, Williamson’s largest pulpit has been her regular guest spot on the Oprah Winfrey OWN Network’s “SuperSoulSunday.”
As Williamson put it: “My religion is Judaism, my spirituality is universal.”
Her ideology is sometimes cast as a synthesis of New Age spiritualism and self-help — her most famous quote (“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”).
“We came to understand, just as it says in ‘A Course in Miracles,’ ‘religion and psychotherapy are, at their peak, the same thing,’ religious principle — in terms of universal themes — is not about doctrine, and it’s not about dogma, it’s about… the laws of consciousness,” she told the crowd at Harvard.
Williamson, who once described herself as a “b***h for God,” notes that her philosophy is backed by brass-tacks policy conversations about things such as Medicare for All (she
supports it) and the Green New Deal (that too), and includes hard details in at least one widely discussed area: reparations for African Americans." RNS
REALLY?
they became fools...
Romans 1:22
"The 2020 race to the White House has become uncharacteristically religious in recent months.
“Memo to the elite: America is a religious nation,” the author and entrepreneur told Religion News Service..... “The lack of a vibrant spiritual conversation is to the detriment of American democracy, because spirituality means the path of the heart.”
Since 2011, Williamson’s largest pulpit has been her regular guest spot on the Oprah Winfrey OWN Network’s “SuperSoulSunday.”
As Williamson put it: “My religion is Judaism, my spirituality is universal.”
Her ideology is sometimes cast as a synthesis of New Age spiritualism and self-help — her most famous quote (“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure”).
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“We came to understand, just as it says in ‘A Course in Miracles,’ ‘religion and psychotherapy are, at their peak, the same thing,’ religious principle — in terms of universal themes — is not about doctrine, and it’s not about dogma, it’s about… the laws of consciousness,” she told the crowd at Harvard.
Williamson, who once described herself as a “b***h for God,” notes that her philosophy is backed by brass-tacks policy conversations about things such as Medicare for All (she
REALLY?