Why New Age Spiritualists Are Idiots

James Ray, the self-help guru, lured about 60 idiots out into the Arizona desert so he could starve them for three days and then try to bake them in a home-made oven he jokingly called a “sweat lodge.” Three of the idiots died. If you go back and read some of the comments I have received on those stories, it seems the most flak I’ve received is because I properly refer to the victims as “idiots.” Make no mistake, the definition fits. They may have been intellectual in many areas of their life, but when it came to the God-granted gift of common sense, and the god-given instinct of judgment, they chose to blind themselves. This made them idiots.

Carl Welser has a great definition of why this is so:

Where have all the guiding principles gone? For lack of guiding principles, idiocy rules the day.

We are living in an age of irresponsibility. Because a few people act irresponsibly, the many are held to a higher standard of responsibility. Weighty rules designed to force responsibility pave the road to idiocy.

Idiocy is running rampant among us. We may have difficulty agreeing what levels of idiocy we face today. But we dare not lose sight of the truth that every child must grow up imbued with a workable set of guiding principles, else irresponsibility becomes the rule.

Simply stated, idiocy rises out of a lack of agreeable and workable guiding principles.

Idiocy is not necessarily deadly. Acts of idiocy still stand a step above some truly evil stuff. It is beyond idiocy when parents murder their own children in bizarre fashions. Or when people entrust themselves to die at the behest of an overwrought guru in an unventilated community sweat lodge, as happened last month.

Acts like that are beyond the pale of idiocy. Those actions are lost in the realms of insanity.

The primary tenet of liberalism and new age spiritualism is “do not judge.” The second is “keep an open mind.” Therefore, without judgment, there can be no right or especially, wrong. If you do not allow yourself to ask whether or not something is good, successful, correct and right, because to do so would be to violate your prime creed, then without guiding principles, idiocy ensues.

And anyone who participates in rituals that include a teepee which has a yin-yang symbol surrounded by pink dolphins is an idiot times three. Correct me if I’m wrong, but neither the Indians nor the Chinese were pink dolphin experts.