CLOAKED IN HOLINESS

“Nations die of softening of the brain, which, for a long time, passes for softening of the heart.” (Coventry Patmore)
The willingness to serve, generous giving, concern and love for others do not authenticate the charismatic movement. We find the same traits among followers of false religions as well. Shintoism, Taoism, Jainism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Falun Gong, New Age, DLM, Hare Krishna, Islam, Christian Science, Jehovah Witnesses, Scientology, Mormonism, etc. all have some very nice and devout followers.
I have seen my father weep over Sweedenborg. I knew necromancers who freely gave everything they had. I grew up in a household saturated with new age. Despite all that, my parents were deeply religious and compassionate people. My husband has an atheist friend. One would be hard pressed to find another person who volunteers or cares as much as that man. I know a young woman who would be most certainly dead from a drug overdose, if she didn’t meet her future husband who is a Jehovah Witness. Can any of this prove that new age, necromancy, atheism or the JW religion are from God?
Feeling close to God is no proof either. Some of our saints never had spiritual consolations. Yet the psychic world offers plenty. Don’t get me wrong. I am not saying that Catholicism has to be dry and without spiritual consolations. But spiritual consolations do not validate anything, besides the counterfeit is able to stir up the same effects... so how something FEELS is no proof of authenticity.
