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Writing in the magazine of the Evangelical Covenant Church, North Park Theological Seminary professor Richard W. Carlson decries the "paranoid responses" on the part of critics of the New Age movement."All is clearly not bad in New Age," he writes, and some "aspects may even be healthy for the church.…"10 No wonder such statements as the following could be uttered triumphantly by a professor lecturing at Harvard Divinity School:
The environmental movement, in conjunction with New Age spirituality and the rediscovery of the native American worldview, is assaulting the arrogant domination of nature that has brought the planet to the brink of ecocatastrophe....
All life is sacred and must be protected from the ravages of the species ironically titled Homo sapiens.And so, more recently, there has been the revelation of Gaia, the entire earth as a living entity.The Great Goddess has had many names and this is but the latest....
It is above all the Bible that must be blamed...!The repressive, racist, phallocratic and hierarchical heritage of biblical religion has deformed Western culture.
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10 Richard W. Carlson, "The New Age: A Weather Report," in The Covenant Companion, January 1991, pp.6, 7, 45.