Religion vs New Age

[Hafswa]

Peace/Salaam,
Bearing in mind the different religions represented on this forum, I would like to know the different perceptions we each have on the new age movement that is steadily taking precedence on so many peoples lives especially in America where people with strong influences such as Oprah have takena stand on it.

What really is the new Age movement?

Is it new or it's just a revised version of something that already existed?

Any concepts in it that are borrowed from th different religions that we have?


All other questions are welcome.....

Thanks

[AntiKarateKid]

Whatever it is, if people aren't following religion, and are making up their own rules, it can only end up badly as it did in ages past.

[Hafswa]

They seem to have forgotten what happened then and have revised it to suit today.
What about the spiritual aspect of the new age......Is this an attempt(rule) to cancel out the sovreighnity of God?

[ahmed_indian]

we have to follow only God's way....as Islam is the only guidance frm God, we have to follow it.

we may dislike it but its the only way to attain our Creator's pleasure and enjoy in His jannah forever and ever.

[Hafswa]

we have to follow only God's way....as Islam is the only guidance frm God, we have to follow it.

we may dislike it but its the only way to attain our Creator's pleasure and enjoy in His jannah forever and ever.

Does this mean that in your opnion the new age movement is an attempt to do what best suits us and not be accountable to a higher power?

[AntiKarateKid]

Does this mean that in your opnion the new age movement is an attempt to do what best suits us and not be accountable to a higher power?

It seems like an evolution of atheism. First people try living without being religious. But when they realize the benefits of spirituality, they distort religion into this new age stuff.

[ATHEISTofPEACE]

The new age movment is the revision of the old/wise ways. It includes Wicca, shamaniam, paganism. animism, and a mixture of the "best bits" from all faiths.

[ATHEISTofPEACE]

It seems like an evolution of atheism. First people try living without being religious. But when they realize the benefits of spirituality, they distort religion into this new age stuff.

New Age has nothing to with atheism, in most cases.

[cali dude]

With time, people are learning on their own. They are learning from their own experience what's really morally right.

Religion creates bias and only works for the people following it.

Here is a good example. All those people enjoying equality in the western countries would have not enjoyed it in the religious countries. People have learned that this is the only way it makes sense. If you were in countries controlled by religions, the preference would be given to the people of the main religion in the country.

So, in this respect, new age is not bad except that some people use freedom to harm themselves. Some examples are drugs and undisciplined personal life...

I am pretty sure by now everybody knows that God is unapproachable. So, whether religions preach that you could be connected to God while living this life or after this life, we all know by now that it is very uncertain...

[Amadeus85]

Neew Age is something that jews, christians and muslims should avoid definitely.

[AntiKarateKid]

With time, people are learning on their own. They are learning from their own experience what's really morally right.

Religion creates bias and only works for the people following it.

Here is a good example. All those people enjoying equality in the western countries would have not enjoyed it in the religious countries. People have learned that this is the only way it makes sense. If you were in countries controlled by religions, the preference would be given to the people of the main religion in the country.

So, in this respect, new age is not bad except that some people use freedom to harm themselves. Some examples are drugs and undisciplined personal life...

I am pretty sure by now everybody knows that God is unapproachable. So, whether religions preach that you could be connected to God while living this life or after this life, we all know by now that it is very uncertain...

What a load of rubbish mixed in with someone's personal distaste for religion, with a large sprinkling of ignorance.

You're post was amusing to read for its complete absurdity.

[ATHEISTofPEACE]

What a load of rubbish mixed in with someone's personal distaste for religion, with a large sprinkling of ignorance.

You're post was amusing to read for its complete absurdity.

Maybe you should point out how other wise you post falls in the same group.

[AntiKarateKid]

Maybe you should point out how other wise you post falls in the same group.

A post which spawned of the guy's own bitterness at his lost religiosity and which so spectacularly misses the point of organized religion, pretends as if nothing good has ever come out of it, and relies on historical revisionism is hardly worth more than a chuckle and dismissive wave.

[ATHEISTofPEACE]

A post which spawned of the guy's own bitterness at his lost religiosity and which so spectacularly misses the point of organized religion, pretends as if nothing good has ever come out of it, and relies on historical revisionism is hardly worth more than a chuckle and dismissive wave.

So in other words you disagree and thats that?

EDIT:
ohh and he summed up the new age thing pretty well.

[Woodrow]

to be honest I am at a loss. this is the first I heard of it. But, from the little I gather from this thread, I see it no different from many failed movements that occurred in the past.

Neither new nor religion. Just the age old searching in the wrong places for trying to find purpose in our existence.

[Yanal]

Very true,brother Woodrow sometimes we find ourselves getting suspicious over why we are in this world etc....

[ATHEISTofPEACE]

New age is so hard to describe.

[Hafswa]

to be honest I am at a loss. this is the first I heard of it. But, from the little I gather from this thread, I see it no different from many failed movements that occurred in the past.

Neither new nor religion. Just the age old searching in the wrong places for trying to find purpose in our existence.

Very true. It already failed once and will always be just that. All human beings were created with the sense of a higher power and their sole purpose on earth is to live a life worth of God's acceptance.

How this notion has been mixed up to demonstrate that in some way you are a god and that you have the power to steer and determine everything in your life is beyond me.

[ATHEISTofPEACE]

Very true. It already failed once and will always be just that. All human beings were created with the sense of a higher power and their sole purpose on earth is to live a life worth of God's acceptance.

How this notion has been mixed up to demonstrate that in some way you are a god and that you have the power to steer and determine everything in your life is beyond me.

Self fulfilling destiny
Where your attention goes the energy flows
the secret
Karma
things like that...

[Hafswa]

Self fulfilling destiny
Where your attention goes the energy flows
the secret
Karma
things like that...

Funny you mentioned the Secret....I almost got caught up with the entire craze. It took alot of comparison and question asking for it to finally click.