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#17 Other religions, the New Age and Islam

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Middle Ground of New Age Adherents

There's a large middle ground of people who like to call themselves spiritual but not religious. I think that's quite a difficult conversation to have with someone who's neither fully against it or on one side. The new age can't really have a serious critique of evil because pantheism, the idea that God is the cosmos and the cosmos is God, then everything that happens is just everything that happens. And if there is radical evil and you have to be very naive not to think that there is, then what's going to happen about it? How does that, how do you deal with that?

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