He revels in broken marriages, starving children, an emphysema victim gasping for air, a cancer sufferer begging for morphine, or a teenager stealing money from the elderly to support a heroin addiction. Mutilating the image of God and causing it pain is his speciality. In New Age literature, the Jehovah God of Scripture is maligned as a malicious judge, keeping enlightenment from His followers, and denying them sensual pleasures. To New Agers, God is identified as the Creation itself, specifically Mother Earth or Gaia, and we become one with God by gaining cosmic consciousness. Marriage and fidelity are considered optional.
Child bearing is belittled, unborn and infant children, as well as the elderly, are expendable.
Many of today's social ills can be directly traced to this aggressive war against God and His image. Hug a tree or save a whale, as long as it is not the image of God. Historians recognize that this agenda scarcely differs from that of ancient paganism. Gnostic thinking was similarly diffuse, but contained each of the above doctrines. The sun shines on nothing new.