While Secularists, Marxists, and Postmodernists agree that the physical universe is fundamentally energy, so New Spirituality is unique in ascribing divine characteristics to the energy at the source of all things. “Everything has divine power in it,” says Matthew Fox, who refers to himself oxymoronically as a Roman Catholic New Ager. This divine force is what gives the planet its “sacredness.” 47 One of the best explanations of pantheism, and one of the most poetic, comes from a children’s book titled What Is God? There are many ways to talk about God. Does that mean that everything that
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