Keep Denying You're NewAge (That Lie Works The Best)

Oh shit - Cough! Cough! Blowjob! Blowjob! - do anything but, whatever you do, never admit I've been right all along:

Young people who consider themselves “spiritual but not religious” are more likely to commit property crimes than those who identify as just “religious” or “spiritual and religious,” according to one study from Baylor University, a Baptist institution. 

Researchers surveyed participants to see how often they had committed crimes in the previous 12 months, and found that loosey-goosey spiritual types (just kidding! you’re great!) were more likely to commit vandalism, theft and burglary than religious people; the study also found that agnostics and atheists were less likely than spiritual people to commit such crimes.  

“Calling oneself ‘spiritual but not religious’ turned out to more of an antisocial characteristic, unlike identifying oneself as religious,” said Baylor researcher Aaron Franzen, a doctoral candidate and study co-author. 

It is a hard time to be spiritual, scientifically speaking: researchers from University College London recently found that that this group is more prone to “anxiety disorders, phobias and neuroses” than atheists, agnostics and religious people.

 I've mentioned that a study of NewAgers would reveal this, but most people - including my blogging colleagues - would rather continue with the head-in-the-sand, Annie Hall, "La-Dee-Dah" let's-focus-on-some-horrifying-poitical-speculation bullshit, as real crimes are repeatedly being committed against real people all around them, but by people just like themselves, which explains their reluctance to really get involved with exposing anything. 

They, too, fell for the okay-doke.

This study is discussing their kids. Who taught the kids? The parents. 

And what are they really up to? 

How has the normalization of "spirituality's" unchecked vandalism, theft, burglary, anxiety disorders, phobias and neuroses been affecting us? Has it skewed the justice system? Society itself? 

And as we push (what was) our City On A Hill further down this road, by encouraging yoga and other "spiritual" pursuits in the larger society, aren't we actually condemning ourselves to living comfortably in a castle of ceaseless torments? Fuck all that:

Happily sitting in shit?

You don't get it:

You blame somebody for your sins - and for pointing them out. You want somebody to suffer for you. To like you that much. To cut you some slack. I understand all that. It's charming.

But here's the one most important thing you don't understand:

Jesus wasn't an atheist,...