Why does Pope Francis cover up pedophile scandals inside the catholic church while calling Reiki satanic?
Why do they associate Reiki with new age while the practice is older than new age?
It's disappointing for me as a catholic Christian and others that cases of pedophilia happen while the issues themselves aren't condemned. And then we have the pope not just deceiving many, but also blaming others than himself. Likewise he blamed Satan for the pedophilia.
When it comes to the mark of the beast, many say it's the microchip that is the mark of the beast, which could be true in terms of metaphor. You get a mark and become dependent from it. There are others saying that the mark of the beast isn't true and from the side of spirituality is said that the mark of the beast shuts down the door towards the spiritual realm.
Then there are some saying that spirituality is superior to matter and vise versa. Neither of them are superior nor inferior in fact. While there is material truth to find on this planet, there is also spiritual truth, where most of it isn't provable with the scientific method. Only with debunking attempts. Once the debunking failed and proves the opposite of the null hypothesis, it's real.
There's also science that calls itself skeptical yet doesn't remain skeptical towards the status quo. Such "skeptics" are called pseudoskeptics. So they pretend to be skeptic, yet fall into the category of dogmatism. There are about ten notions of a belief system called scientism, which is an absolute form of materialism. And make notions like that humans and animals are machines, the there is no such thing as consciousness and than death is permanent. Together it forms a dangerous philosophy which can be called materialistic defeatism. Believing in such things as defeatism is demotivating not just life, but also it's purpose.
All evil that will remain evil is unforgivable and should be punished for it's activities. This comes to the seven deadly sins committed and other sins. The seven deadly sins determine your character, not limited to the sins of wrath, envy, gluttony, lust, sloth, greed and pride.
For non-religious people, it is important to remain respectful, ridiculing it is fallacious and disrespectful. Believing in God, Allah or anyone else beyond humanity is about not hating people but creating a better world by repenting from sin in the first place. But the more rules you make, the more sinners there will be according to your rules.
It's better to get beyond authority than believing in authority, defend the truth. Not all people with cosmic consciousness are associating with new age.
How would you stop defeatism?
What are the causes of the rise in depression and suicide in the western world?
What changes are required to fix the western world?
And has anyone tried to use stoicism to fix themselves even further?
https://www.wakingtimes.com/2018/10/11/as-catholic-church-ignores-its-pedophilia-scandals-bishop-warns-you-that-reiki-energy-healing-is-satanic/
https://www.wakingtimes.com/2016/02/13/10-basic-new-age-deceptions-and-how-to-correct-them/