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A recent\u00a0<\/span>YouGov<\/span><\/a>\u00a0poll revealed that nearly 9 out of ten Americans, 87 percent, ascribe to some sort of \u201cnew age\u201d belief. The poll was conducted online amongst 1000 American adults from August 18-22, 2022. The poll surveyed the respondents\u2019 views on 20 \u201cnew-age spiritualism\u201d beliefs, such as meditation, tarot cards, karma, reincarnation, and telepathy. Karma came out on top, with 55 percent of respondents stating they believed in karma, while 41 percent believed in hypnosis. Thirty-one percent believed in the idea of spiritual energy in physical objects, while 56 percent believe \u201cevolving into greater states of consciousness\u201d to be either very or somewhat important. Sixty-one percent of respondents identified religion as either very or somewhat important in their lives, while 22 percent said it was not important at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

New Age beliefs have been making headway in American life for some time now, with many churches battling New Age beliefs within their own congregations. A 2018 article for The Gospel Coalition, an article entitled \u201c<\/span>New Age Beliefs are Common in America- and in our Churches,<\/span><\/a>\u201d analyzed the data from a 2018\u00a0<\/span>Pew Research Center<\/span><\/a>\u00a0study on America\u2019s religious typology. Author Joe Carter noted that even the group that attended church the most regularly and identified God as the God of Bible, labeled the \u201cSunday Stalwarts\u201d in the study, had New Age beliefs, with nearly a third of the group believing in psychics and 19 percent believing in reincarnation. Carter summed up the findings by writing, \u201cWe tend to assume people intuitively understand why a belief the God who revealed himself in the Bible and in Christ is incompatible with a belief in reincarnation or the healing power of crystals. Because of this assumption, we spend almost no time explaining to our fellow churchgoers why New Age and Christian beliefs are incompatible. The result is that many people in our churches have a malfunctioning plausibility structure.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Melissa Dougherty<\/span><\/a>, a Christian apologist and \u201cex-New Ager,\u201d deals with New Age beliefs that have seeped into the church. One of the most popular videos on her channel is entitled \u201c<\/span>Top 5 New Age Teachings in the Church,<\/span><\/a>\u201d which details the five New Age beliefs of the Law of Attraction, Oneness, Religious Pluralism, Universalism, and Mysticism have infiltrated the church. She also aims specifically at the\u00a0<\/span>New Apostolic Reformation<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and Bethel Church in particular. Bethel Church has\u00a0<\/span>come under fire<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for its use of \u201cChristian Tarot Cards,\u201d which it calls \u201cDestiny Cards.\u201d Bethel pushed back, stating that the cards were not meant to predict the future like Tarot cards are meant to and that Destiny Cards reveal \u201cgiftings you are born within your life.\u201d It was noted by critics, however, that Bethel\u2019s\u00a0<\/span>Christalignment<\/span><\/a>\u00a0ministry attributes a predictive power to the Destiny cards. The website states that Destiny Cards \u201c\u2026 are more predictive and higher than other card readings.\u201d The website had previously compared the Destiny Cards to Tarot Cards but scrubbed the language after criticism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A recent\u00a0YouGov\u00a0poll revealed that nearly 9 out of ten Americans, 87 percent, ascribe to some sort of \u201cnew age\u201d belief. The poll was conducted online amongst 1000 American adults from August 18-22, 2022. The poll surveyed the respondents\u2019 views on 20 \u201cnew-age spiritualism\u201d beliefs, such as meditation, tarot cards, karma, reincarnation, and telepathy. 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