Since somebody posted about this weekends boycott of Walmart, I 
thought I would add this writing from Lighthouse Trails 
Publishing.  These folks put out some good stuff.

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>American Family Association (AFA) has called for 
><http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cekag9bab.0.ipneg9bab.r49t9yaab.3757&ts=S0212&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.afa.net%2Fwalmart_11202006.htm>a 
>boycott against Wal-Mart this weekend because of Wal-Mart's support 
>of the homosexual agenda. But in light of AFA's continued support of 
>the New Age/contemplative movement and the financial gain they 
>receive through their 
><http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cekag9bab.0.b8pd4xbab.r49t9yaab.3757&ts=S0212&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.americanfamilyresourcecenter.net%2Fe%2FBhome.asp>online 
>bookstore, isn't it a bit hypocritical to go after a secular 
>organization when AFA is guilty of the very same thing? In the 
>boycott statement, AFA says: "Wal-Mart sells pro-homosexual items 
>from their website." But AFA is selling ungodly items from their 
>website also! What's the difference? While dominionist-type 
>Christian organizations are running around the countryside trying to 
>turn our culture into a Christian culture, they are heavily 
>promoting a spirituality (and financially benefiting from it) that 
>is destroying the spiritual lives of countless people.
>
>AFA isn't alone either. Southern Baptist Convention, Rick Warren, 
>Willow Creek, the emerging church, Focus on the Family, Christian 
>publishers, colleges and some entire denominations - are promoting 
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>spirituality (i.e., spiritual formation) like there is no tomorrow. 
>But the premise of contemplative ultimately denies everything that 
>Jesus Christ lived and died for. It is pantheistic, sensual and deadly.
>
>So while AFA is asking you to not shop at Wal-Mart this weekend, 
>just remember they are making money by selling to the public books 
>that deny the gospel message of Jesus Christ. As you are shopping at 
>Target instead of Wal-Mart this weekend, just keep in mind that the 
>very organization you are teaming up with in the boycott, is 
>ridiculing truth, and getting away with it. By telling concerned 
>supporters that they have taken care of the problem, they are lying, 
>and why? So they can 
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>selling books by 
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>Pennington (pantheism), 
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>Monk Kidd (goddess worship), 
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>Pagitt (yoga and emerging), Pete Greig 
>(<http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cekag9bab.0.mpneg9bab.r49t9yaab.3757&ts=S0212&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fromthelighthouse.com%2Fblog%2Findex.php%3Fp%3D288%26amp%3Bmore%3D1%26amp%3Bc%3D1> 
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>Moon Rising), and the list is so long, we haven't even found the end 
>of it yet. Incidentally, AFA made some changes to their home page 
>within the last week or so. They have removed the Resource Center 
>link (where all the heretical books are sold) from the home page, 
>but have it placed under the Home Page link: 
><http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=cekag9bab.0.npneg9bab.r49t9yaab.3757&ts=S0212&p=https%3A%2F%2Fstore.afa.net%2F>AFA 
>Products (see Resource Center link at top of page).
>
>Perhaps it's time AFA, and these other organizations that call 
>themselves Christian, realize it is futile and vain to go after the 
>secular movements if they are heading in the same direction 
>themselves. What's amazing here is this: AFA says it opposes the 
>homosexual lifestyle, but many of the contemplative authors they 
>benefit from are accepting of the homosexual lifestyle. AFA knows 
>this too, because many people have been writing to them for some 
>time. They will tell you, if you contact them, that they had no 
>idea, but that is not true.
>
>Thus our question, isn't the American Family Association being 
>hypocritical? And isn't it time they stop promoting contemplative 
>spirituality, which is as dangerous to people's welfare as 
>practicing homosexuality.
>
>A Few Quotes by AFA Authors:
>
>Sue Monk Kidd, from 
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>Dance of the Dissident Daughter: "Deity ... will also be right here, 
>right now, in me, in the earth, in this river, and this rock, in 
>excrement and roses alike ... The divine is in everything foaming 
>around everywhere. We're all in connection with it ... As I grounded 
>myself in feminine spiritual experience, that fall I was initiated 
>into my body in a deeper way. I came to know myself as an embodiment 
>of Goddess ... The day of my awakening was the day I saw and knew I 
>saw all things in God, God in all things" pp. 160-163.
>
>Basil Pennington: "We should not hesitate to take the fruit of the 
>age-old wisdom of the East and capture it for Christ. Indeed, those 
>of us who are in ministry should make the necessary effort to 
>acquaint ourselves with as many of these Eastern techniques as 
>possible ... Many Christians who take their prayer life seriously 
>have been greatly helped by Yoga, Zen, TM and similar practices ..." 
>from Finding Grace at the Center
>
>Doug Pagitt: "When people discover we are a church with a yoga class 
>... they sometimes assume that we're simply out to appeal to the 
>cultural creatives and the neo-hippies." (p. 53, 
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>Spiritual Formation)
>
>Editors - Lighthouse Trails Publishing
>Lighthouse Trails Research Project
>
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