... "Mankind is faced with difficulties of various kinds, to problems and strong transformations, often experience dramatic upheavals and lacerations. Some fall victim to sects and religious distortions, or manipulations of the truth. Others succumb to various forms of slavery. Diffuse attitudes of selfishness, injustice and insensitivity to the needs of others "... ..." Another phenomenon of our contemporary culture is that, while continuing to advance the secularization of many aspects of life, is also seen a new demand spirituality, an expression of man's religious status and sign of his search for answers to the crisis of values \u200b\u200bin Western society "..." This concern of homo religiosus produce some positive and constructive, such as search a new meaning of life, a new ecological awareness and the desire to go beyond a cold, rationalistic religiosity ... "..." And among the traps, did not also include such aberrant forms of religious feeling who take advantage of the needs and deepest longings of the human soul, offering prospects illusory and deceptive satisfaction? "...
..." Some of these groups are defined Christians are inspired by Eastern religions and others refer to ideologies, usually revolutionary of our time ... Although it difficult to find a line of common content in all of them, it is possible to trace the general trend. salvation in these movements is often seen, usually as something exclusive to a minority group, led by senior staff, who believe they have a privileged relationship with a God whose only claim to know their secrets. Also search for the sacred has ambiguous boundaries. For some it is a higher value, towards which man tends without ever achieve, for others, however, is located in the world of magic, and seek to attract to its own sphere to manipulate and reduce it to its own service ... The widespread millenarianism, for example, evokes the themes of Christian eschatology and the problems of human destiny; want to give religious answers to political or economic reveals the tendency to manipulate the true meaning of God, actually coming to exclude God from the life of men almost aggressive zeal with which some seek new recruits going from house to house or detain passersby on street corners, is a forgery sectarian and missionary zeal, the attention paid to the individual and importance attached to their contribution to the cause and development of the religious group "...
..." Weaknesses supporting these new religious movements are the instability and uncertainty. They base their strategy on how "... "Therefore, some of them, in a syncretic perspective, biblical and Christian elements amalgamated with others drawn from Eastern philosophies and religions, magic and psychological techniques ..."
... "I see in different countries Latin America's number one problem is, increasingly, the problem of sects "...
..." I know that promotion sects and groups with strong financial resources and that his preaching seduce the people with false illusions "..." Their methods, their economic resources and the insistence of his proselytizing efforts make an impact "... ..." On the other hand, can not be underestimated some strategy, which aims to weakening ties that bind Latin America and undermine and forces arising from the unit. For this purpose, devote significant financial resources to fund propaganda campaigns "... ..." The word "proselytism" has negative connotations when it reflects a way to win converts does not respect the freedom of those targets a particular religious propaganda .... The success of proselytism by sects and new religious groups in America can not be indifferent " ...
... "It is a price that no man is respectful of human rights should ask for or accept" ... JUAN PABLO II
Source: Latin American Network for the Study of Sects - electronic newsletter on the phenomenon of sects and new religious. InfoRIES No. 200 - May 2, 2011 -
0 comments:
Post a Comment