Constance Cumbey

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Constance Cumbey (born February 29, 1944) is an American lawyer, Christian activist, and writer.

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Cumbey offered the first major criticism of the New Age movement from a Christian perspective in The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and Our Coming Age of Barbarism (1983), but quickly lost academic credibility due to her promotion of conspiracy theories linking the New Age movement to Benjamin Creme, Theosophy and Nazism.[1] Scholar of New Age religion James R. Lewis describes this book as containing "a few few insightful criticisms with many accusations of the least responsible sort", and that she is "simply lumping together anything that departs from a rather strict interpretation of Christianity." Cumbey's accusations include that the New Age movement has "infiltrated all of Christianity, as well as Judaism", and that it is the motivating force behind ecumenism, holistic health centers, New Thought, humanistic psychology, Montessori schools, modernism, secular humanism, and zero population growth. She states that Unitarian churches and health food stores become "New Age recruiting centers", that the Guardian Angels become one of the New Age movement's paramilitary organizations and that "the New Age Movement has complete identity with the programs of Hitler".[2] Her contention is that the New Age movement is not simply expressing a naive or unscriptural interest in metaphysics, but that it is an organized conspiracy to overthrow the United States and replace it with a Nazi-like regime.[3]

Cumbey is harshly critical of all religions other than Christianity and Judaism, and those who take an interest in them.[4]

While there are certain superficial similarities among most religions, orthodox Judaism and Christianity stand in direct opposition to every other belief system. It is safe to say, however, that nearly all non-Judeo-Christian religions are extremely similar because, as the Bible indicates, they come from one source, the 'god of this world'—Satan himself.[4]

— Constance Cumbey, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow

Publications[edit]

  • The New Age Movement: Age of Aquarius, Age of Antichrist. Oklahoma City: Southwest Radio Church. 1982. OCLC 45443844.
  • The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and our Coming Age of Barbarism. Shreveport: Huntington House. 1983. ISBN 0-910311-03-X. OCLC 10038955.
  • A Planned Deception: The Staging of a New Age Messiah. East Detroit: Pointe Publishers. 1985. ISBN 978-0935897005.

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lewis, James R. (1992). Perspectives on the New Age. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 154–56. ISBN 978-0-7914-1213-8.
  2. ^ Lewis, James R. (1996). Magical Religion and Modern Witchcraft. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 344. ISBN 0-7914-2890-7.
  3. ^ Fuller, Robert (1996). Naming the Antichrist. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 187–188. ISBN 0-19-510979-1.
  4. ^ a b Tamney, Joseph (1992). The Resilience of Christianity in the Modern World. Albany: State University of New York Press. p. 113. ISBN 0-7914-0821-3.

Further reading[edit]

  • Hexham, Irving (1992). "The Evangelical Response to the New Age". In Lewis, James R.; Melton, J. Gordon (eds.). Perspectives on the New Age. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 152–163.
  • Passantino, Bob; Passantino, Gretchen (1990). Witch Hunt. Nashville: Thomas Nelson.
  • Saliba, John A. (1999). Christian Responses to the New Age Movement: A Critical Assessment. London: Geoffrey Chapman.

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