Oprah's Views

Talk about coincidence: a fundamentalist internet buddy of mine sent me the following streaming video link decrying Oprah's views on religion. It is perhaps the video being described as her denying the existence of God, but in any event I found it most interesting. It seems to me that she is far closer to the Source than her critics and is indicative of the baggage attached to institutional Christianity. Would someone for whom Oprah's espoused views make sense be attracted to an group such as ours which is closely linked to Christianity? It seems a significant burden to overcome. While I agree with John and Blake that perhaps our "pivot foot" needs to be in the Christian wisdom tradition, failure to somehow distinguish ourselves from the negative connotations attached to traditional Christianity runs the risk of alienating folk who are on or want to be on the wisdom path but are turned off by the popular understanding of Christianity.

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