Hilariously Disturbing and Blasphemous Quotes from “A Course in Miracles”
Confession time. Oprah Winfrey’s much-promoted text in pagan spirituality sat (unread!) on my shelf. You see, our church holds a garage sale each year, and we have to purge the books shelves of heretical teaching before offering them to the general public. I thought it would be an interesting read to review, but instead I’m letting my daughter make a pumpkin out of it . My wife and I flipped randomly through the book before the art project began, and through its miry teaching found a few gems: “Revelation is intensely personal and cannot be meaningfully translated. That is why any attempt to describe it in words is impossible. Revelation induces only experience. Miracles, on the other hand, induce action” (7). “If God created you perfect, you are perfect. If you believe you can be sick, you have placed other gods before Him” (187). “The Atonement does not make holy. You were created holy. It merely brings unholiness to holiness; or what you hav...