Oprah’s False Christianity April 7, 2008
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Oprah is one of the most dangerous personalities in the world right now. She is loved by many, and her advice is taken to heart by individuals seeking happiness, peace, and guidance. She is also deluded. Check out this quote from a discussion she has been having on spirituality, religion, and God with Eckhart Tolle.
Well, I am a Christian who believes there are certainly many more paths to God other than Christianity. So, I’m a free-thinking Christian who believes in my way, but I don’t believe that it is the only way with six billion people here on the planet.
Oprah’s perspective is liberal Christianity. In fact, it is not Christianity at all. It is new age spirituality, not belief, which is demonic. Sadly, it is a perspective an increasing number of “Christians” hold. It is the perspective of Barack Obama, a man interviewing for the highest position in the world and a man Oprah vehemently supports.
Can Oprah be anymore deceived? Of course. Here is some more delusion:
God is a feeling experience, not a believing experience.
A “feeling experience” is narcissistic. It is conceited. It is about serving yourself instead of serving your Creator. This kind of thinking is why practicing homosexuals can call themselves Christians. If there is no real belief, there is no real punishment. There is no need to turn from sin if God is just a spiritual feeling with no authority.
Oprah’s ideology is more dangerous than atheism. It is packaged as Christian when, in fact, it is worldly. Oprah denies Christ is the only path to God, which is not Christian. It is sad to think about all the individuals (1,860,000 for her first class with Eckhart) she has led astray because of her popularity, and she is using this popularity to feed her own ego. She is a narcissist as evidenced by her talk show, her magazine named after herself, her store, her own network named after herself, and now a blasphemous web class on religion, spirituality, and God.
If Oprah lost everything she had—her money, her fame, her popularity, her connections—and was forced to live on the street begging for everything, she would kill herself. Her inner strength and happiness both come from her external circumstances, not God. Destroy her external strength and you destroy her inner strength. You rip apart her false peace. Her spirituality will vanish.
It is easy to lose yourself in a psychology laden, man-made spirituality when you are not lacking anything materially. It is easy to feel God when you have all you want—when you do not feel like you need anything. Spirituality will give you nothing. Only God, through Jesus Christ, can give you peace. Oprah, like many, even forgets that God owns everything. He determines what we have. Can spirituality give you a job? Can it put food on your table and a roof over your head? Not at all. Oprah’s Christianity is self-serving and demonic. Follow her at your own eternal risk.
I could write an entire blog on Oprah, so I will stop here. I have to give credit to tazdog (link in sidebar) for pointing out Oprah’s webcast videos with Eckhart.
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http://tazdog.com
I’m glad you posted something about it…
AMEN!
Obviously I don’t agree with you about your brand of Christianity, but you and I agree on Oprah: she’s a hypocrite and a dangerous person.
I come at it somewhat differently: she preaches “self-help” through new age nonsense like “The Secret” when the source of most people’s problems has almost nothing to do with the lack of a positive attitude or whatever other bullshit she’s peddling.
Also, while for me her wishy-washy brand of Christianity is a good argument against ANY religion having “the answer,” you’re right to point out that it cuts to the core of what being a Christian really means. It’s nonsense, and it’s also a viewpoint she can literally afford to have because she’s a freakin’ billionaire.
Oprah sucks. :)
Great Post peak9,
It is impossible to consider Oprah to be a Christian by definition.
If a Christian is one who follows Christ or a Disciple of Christ:
“…And the disciples were first called Christians in Antioch” (Acts 11: 26).
Jesus said himself, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. NO one comes to the Father except through me” (John 14: 6).
If you call yourself a Christian then you must follow his word, otherwise you are not a Christian. Get a new Label Oprah.
Oprah is the left, and no one comes to new age spiritual relevance except through Oprah.
Oprah + Reverend Wright = Obama’s core world view….?
It has been interesting to see how many people have jumped on the Tolle bandwagon at oprah’s prompting. I have written several posts on Tolle’s book, A New Earth, contrasting it with orthodox Christianity. What is amazing is how many people who profess to be Christians come to Tolle’s defense.
Thanks for posting your URL tazdog. I thought it tazdog.com, but I wanted to make sure.
How can such a baffoon, be so influencial?
Improper discipleship.
What a poor job of teaching the faith we have done.
Rigg,
You hit it perfectly with Obama’s word view. You can listen to these Oprah webcasts and know exactly what you will get with Obama.
Oprah makes me think of this:
“…having a form of godliness, but denying its power. Have nothing to do with them. They are the kind who work their way INTO WOMEN’S HOMES AND GAIN CONTROL OVER WEAK-WILLED WOMEN, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires. ALWAYS LEARNING, BUT NEVER BEING ABLE TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE TRUTH.” 2 Tim 3:5-6
How can such a baffoon, be so influencial?
I know! Oprah is so smitten by him and he’s just a man that has written books and she just takes it all in, like he is so profound.
“I am a flower, you are a flower, we are the essence of tacos and light bulbs….” And, Oprah says gleefuly, “Ok, Ok, I see where you are going with this, I am having an aha moment!”
Then, all her followers make tacos for dinner and change their light bulbs! Oprah appears to be one of those that teaches women to really think for themselves and to not be confined. Think again ladies!
coloradokiwi,
We agree on something. Sweetness.
Oprah’s definitely not “the left.” Look at her comments on affirmative action. Look what she’s said about poverty. Note that her brand of Christianity cum New Age feel-goodness is just a rose-tinted and re-branded form of picking yourself up by your own boot straps (i.e.: must be your approach to life, not structural impediments or governmental policies, that is holding you back). Anyone on the left is likely to stress structural issues more than personal ones with respect to life chance/improvement.
No, Oprah’s a Democrat, but not a lefty Democrat. She’s a Democrat only by default of the fact that the GOP has skewed significantly farther right over the last two decades (not far enough for some of you, obviously).
The left has skewed more left (Moveon.org), while the right is moving left (John McCain). Those who remain on the right look extreme because our culture is changing.
I think it’s more accurate to say that both parties have moved to the middle, while their disaffected “base” has become more vocal through grassroots campaigns, skewing farther apart from each other to the left and right. Overall the country’s moved right on economics, etc., whereas despite the efforts of people like yourself, rightwing economics have ironically enabled left-looking social mores via media culture. Ultimately of course all of us are thoroughly commodified via late capitalism: you have your Zondervan’s, I have my Whole Foods or whatever.
I like Whole Foods. It is just too expensive and the employees are a bit too smug.