The idea of reincarnation, joined to the moral relativism of the “New Age,” in turn provides the ideological basis for justifying abortion, since they believe that it does not matter to eliminate a human life if it will reincarnate afterward.
The movement of the “New Age” is a pseudo-religious and pseudo-spiritual ideology that arose at the beginning of this century from occultism in the U.S. Over the course of time, its proponents went on creating an eclectic movement that absorbed a series of elements—even mutually contradictory ones—until forming an amalgam of ideas and practices which today constitute perhaps the strongest pseudo-religious threat that Christianity faces.
The ideas of the “New Age” are penetrating education, music, politics, art, and even Christianity itself and the Catholic Church. Its proponents occupy important positions in all these fields, from which they exert their macabre and powerful influence. Here, however, we are interested only in those ideas of this movement that have most to do with the anti-life ideology, since the space at our disposal is very limited.
The “New Age” consists of a pantheism with a good dose of reincarnation. Indeed, its adherents believe that they and all reality are God or part of God. Consequently, nature and everything in it must be respected. Hence the strong inclination of this movement toward ecology and respect for the environment. We have already seen that the current environmentalist movement unfortunately promotes the false idea that the degradation of the environment (which they exaggerate) is due to “overpopulation,” which must be controlled with “family planning.” The ideas of the “New Age” thus become a perfect ideological justification for anti-life environmentalism.
The “New Age” also promotes the false idea of reincarnation (which it took from the Eastern religions). Under this concept, the soul reincarnates repeatedly until achieving its liberation from the cycle of birth and death and reaching ecstasy (“nirvana”) in the Absolute (“Brahman”).
The idea of reincarnation, joined to the moral relativism of the “New Age,” in turn provides the ideological basis for justifying abortion, since they believe that it does not matter to eliminate a human life if it will reincarnate afterward.
Likewise, reincarnation presupposes a dualism between the soul and the body. Indeed, if the body is only a temporary prison of a soul that will later reincarnate in another body, then the body is only a mere instrument of the “self.” Hence the justification of any sexual behavior or manipulation of the body—that is, hedonism, contraception, homosexuality, etc.
The ideology of reincarnation also emphasizes self-salvation, “I save myself,” and therefore the concentration on the self, egoism. Christ is not the one who saves us; he is only one more guide on the path toward self-illumination. This idea, joined to the pantheism noted earlier, results in an individualistic egoism that justifies everything. If I am god, I invent my own morality, and nothing and no one can tell me what to do with my body, etc.
The ideology of the “New Age” is nothing other than the pseudo-religious and ideological justification of egoism. Still more: since those who form part of the anti-life movement always try (as we shall see later) to cover their guilt (for the conscience rebels against one’s own bad behavior), the “New Age” provides them with a kind of “religion” or “spirituality” with which to give an air of respectability to anti-life activity.
It is worrying to realize how the “New Age,” or at least some of its elements, is becoming part of the ideological structure of the promoters of population control, hedonistic sex education, and anti-life feminism (for example, “Catholics for the Right to Decide” (CDD – “Catholics for a Free Choice,” CFFC), etc.).
The “New Age” movement, then, gives the final touch that synthesizes that whole anti-life and anti-family movement.
Source: Conoze.com
