The Fear of the Cross
What to do if you're scared of suffering
The other day, I watched a Catholic YouTube podcast about the rise of the occult in America, and the host incredulously said to the author he was interviewing, “It’s funny—people reject the coherent Christian theology for a bunch of fringy, incoherent, occultist nonsense!”
I’m like, “Duh! Of course they do.”
It’s very simple: New Age spirituality—which really is Satanism in disguise, though 99% of New Agers are truly nice people and have no clue—doesn’t ask anything of its disciples.
Anything goes. You can deliberately mix and match various belief systems and practices; whatever floats your boat. You can do Zen meditation one day, attend a Tara trance dance the next, and take a Native American sweat lodge on the weekend. You can learn to practice Reiki, Tarot readings, crystal healing, angel communication, witchcraft, channeling, the Law of Attraction, you name it. All in the name of spiritual growth and “raising your vibration.”
As famous warlock Aleister Crowley said, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law.”
Christianity, on the other hand, is demanding.