SkinnyTok influencers: Glamorized disordered eating is the latest reason to stop scrolling



TikTok is full of disturbing content, but something called SkinnyTok currently takes the cake for the hottest new trend — and potentially the most dangerous.

“SkinnyTok is essentially this whole genre of TikTok where these influencers, they call themselves ‘skinny influencers,’ are taking to TikTok to help other people get skinny. But I think what they’re promoting is kind of unhealthy,” Blaze Media social media coordinator Phoenix Painter tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable.”

“I don’t want to shame anyone, but I still feel like it’s important to draw a line as to what is healthy behavior and what seems to be more along the lines of obsession leading to disordered thoughts and patterns,” Painter adds.


One of these influencers, Liv Schmidt, is one of the more “infamous SkinnyTok influencers,” and she takes a harsh approach to her advice.

“A lot of you love to ask me what I eat in a day, and the second I tell you or even hint at it, it’s shock, it’s horror, it’s panic, like, ‘That’s barely any food.’ Yeah, no, what do you think I’m eating? A ton of donuts, pizza, and McDonald’s every day? Babe, be serious, be so for real. I don’t eat like that because I don’t want to look like that,” Schmidt said in a video while walking on a treadmill.

“I eat in portions. I eat with intention. If I ate like garbage, I would feel like garbage and I wouldn’t look the way I do. I chose to be skinny, I chose to be disciplined, and if that makes you uncomfortable, that’s not my problem,” she added.

“Eating disorders are competitive,” Painter says, commenting on Schmidt’s online persona. “Liv Schmidt, she says all the time, ‘Eat small, be small,’ or she also says, ‘You’re not a dog; don’t reward yourself with food.’”

“Which I feel like is so telling of where her mindset actually is,” she adds.

Stuckey, who also dealt with disordered eating in her college years, is all too familiar with this mindset.

“I had a friend who recommended a book in college, and it was called ‘The Skinny Girl Method.’ And it was literally like, ‘Never eat a full banana, just eat half of it, and then put it away,’” Stuckey recalls.

And in the earlier 2000s, when Stuckey was in college, this skinny-girl phenomenon was the norm. Now, it’s clearly making a resurgence on the back of the “body positivity movement.”

“The only thing that I really feel like the body positivity movement got right was that we shouldn’t be shaming people for how they look. Like that kind of early 2000s tabloid thing where they would blow up images of celebrities literally just trying to have a vacation and be like, ‘Oh my God, look at her cellulite, she’s gained five pounds,’” Painter tells Stuckey.

“The body positivity movement absolutely hit it on the nose when they said, ‘No, we shouldn’t be doing that,’ and this is kind of reverting back to that mindset, like '90s, early 2000s,” she adds.

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‘Absolutely evil’: Paula White’s latest Passover scam



White House faith adviser and heretical prosperity gospel “preacher” Paula White is in the news again — and once again, it’s for a far less than godly reason.

In a recent video, White encourages her viewers to “honor God” during Passover, and in return, they should be expecting seven special blessings from God, which include a personal angel, physical healing, and prosperity.

She then encourages them to “honor God” by asking viewers to send $1,000 to her and her ministry.

“I believe that when you honor God on Passover, starting on April 12 at sundown through Good Friday on the 18 and concluding on Easter Sunday, you can receive these seven supernatural blessings for you and your house,” White says in her promotional video.


“According to Exodus 23, God will assign an angel to you. He’ll be an enemy to your enemies, He’ll give you prosperity, He’ll take sickness away from you, He will give you long life, He’ll bring increase in inheritance, and He’ll give a special year of blessing,” she concludes.

The commercial then immediately goes into a voiceover, where a male voice says, “For your special Passover offering of $1,000 or more as the Holy Spirit leads. You will also receive the beautiful 10-inch Waterford Crystal cross.”

Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” is horrified.

“You might laugh at this, and you might think, ‘How could anyone buy into something so gimmicky,’ but I promise, you have people in your life, especially older people, who have a dwindling savings but who believe this, that if they sow a seed of faith,” Stuckey says, “then God will repay them with some kind of blessing.”

Stuckey says the video is simply “money grabbing,” “about selfishness,” and “about self-enrichment,” which she believes is “absolutely evil.”

“So pray for Paula White, but pray for every single person that has ever listened to her and believed her. These are heretical teachings that lead straight to hell,” she adds.

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‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ is back — and it’s more delusional than ever



The trailer for the sixth and final season of the left’s favorite show, “The Handmaid’s Tale,” has hit the mainstream — and of course it’s not hiding its true agenda in the slightest.

The show is based on “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel by Margaret Atwood, but the novel, which was written in the 1980s, doesn’t blame Christian conservatives for the dystopian setting. Rather, the plot simply involves women who are being forced into being surrogates for wealthier, infertile women.

Atwood herself has said that she was influenced by many different religions, including Islam, for her best-seller.

“Their argument, from what I understand,” Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable” says of the left, “is that the religious right, and really all Republicans, because Donald Trump is not the religious right, but they say that he’s co-opted Christianity to try to turn America into this Christian nationalist religious extremist dystopia where we are forced to give birth.”


The reason they believe this is because many Christians on the right are against killing babies in the womb.

However, Stuckey is well aware that their interpretation is delusional, to say the least.

“Something that is really happening in the United States right now is a widespread billion-dollar surrogacy industry that thrives in the United States, which is the Wild West of reproductive technology when it comes to the creation and cryopreservation of embryos, the farming of eggs, the procurement of sperm,” she explains.

“One of the most disturbing aspects of the reproductive industry in the United States is surrogacy,” she continues. “When we’re talking about a surrogate, it is typically the creation of a child using the DNA of two individuals which are complete strangers creating these embryos and then transferring these embryos into a surrogate who is not the biological mother, is not related to the child at all, and this carrier, this surrogate, carries the child until birth.”

“Very often these are premature births because they are high-risk pregnancies. They were not naturally conceived; this baby doesn’t share DNA with the carrier,” she adds.

In many births of babies carried by a surrogate, they take the baby away immediately to ensure that the baby doesn’t bond with the mother, who was the only home the baby has known for the first nine months.

“They’ve just gone through something really big, really dramatic, really traumatic, and they need that bond. But in surrogacy situations, that skin-to-skin opportunity is taken away, that bonding experience necessary for the health of the child is taken away to prevent that bond,” Stuckey explains.

And it gets worse. In a 2023 study from the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology Clinic Outcome Reporting System, it was found that between 2014 and 2020, 32% of surrogacy pregnancies by American women were for buyers outside the United States. 42% of those buyers were men of Asian descent.

“We already know there’s an organ-harvesting black market that exists. We know that child sex trafficking exists. And surrogacy plays a part in all of that. Yet most people won’t say anything about this because they are scared of being called homophobic, because they know it is very often men using these services,” Stuckey says.

“This is ‘The Handmaid’s Tale,’” she adds.

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Cristiano Ronaldo just said the saddest thing about marriage



Most people know who Cristiano Ronaldo is even if they’ve never seen him play. Many consider him the GOAT of soccer or just a notch below Argentina's Lionel Messi. Between his size, speed, and power, Ronaldo is an athletic, goal-scoring machine who remains one of the most celebrated names in the world of sports.

Unfortunately, when it comes to his personal life, there are fewer kind things to say about him. For example, he’s been dating the same woman, Argentine-Spanish model Georgina Rodríguez, since 2016. The couple have children together.

Is marriage on the horizon? As of now, no. Ronaldo addressed this in the 2024 Netflix docuseries “Saudi Pro League: Kickoff.” The interview has since gone viral.

Allie Beth Stuckey plays the clip.

When asked about marrying Rodríguez, Ronaldo said, “I always tell her — when we get that click, like everything with our life, and she knows what I’m talking about. It could be in a year, or it could be in six months, or it could be in a month. I’m 1000% sure that it’ll happen.”

“Spoiler alert: It’s not going to happen,” says Allie. “If he wanted to commit to you ... he would have already done it.”

She condemns this “stay-at-home girlfriend” trend, where men reap all the benefits of having a wife without having to make a commitment.

“Marriage is more than just a piece of paper; it is not just a commitment; it's not just a contract. It is supposed to be a covenant; it's supposed to be really difficult to get out of for a reason,” she says.

Women who agree to these kinds of long-term, commitment-free relationships are merely “[playing] house.” Not only are they “preparing [their significant other] for his wife,” but they’re also guaranteeing he’ll lose interest.

“If you give them everything they want easily and they have nothing to pursue, they eventually lose interest,” she says.

To Ronaldo’s girlfriend, she says, “It would be better to be single than this. At least you would be single and be able to preserve some self-respect instead of constantly worrying and thinking is he ever going to see me as good enough?”

To hear more of Allie’s commentary, watch the episode above.

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Nicole Shanahan shares dark side of ‘tech wife mafia’: 'Groundwork for the Great Reset'



When Allie Beth Stuckey sat down with RFK Jr.’s former running mate, Nicole Shanahan, to hear the incredible story of her recent conversion to Christianity, a deeply personal subject came up: Shanahan’s ex-husband, Google co-founder Sergey Brin, with whom she shares daughter Echo, 6.

When Echo was 18 months old, she was diagnosed with autism, and Shanahan made the incredibly difficult decision to sell her business so that she could better meet her daughter’s needs. This all happened during the height of 2020’s COVID lockdowns.

When Shanahan ventured “knee-deep [into] the autism literature,” her world was flipped upside down when she learned that the condition is “biomedical,” meaning it’s an environmentally triggered disorder that manifests not just in the brain but also in the body.

This put her in an incredibly difficult situation as a member of the “tech wife mafia.”

She strongly suspected that her daughter’s autism was the result of a vaccine, but she was married to a heavyweight at Google — a company that played a critical role in the censorship that took place during the pandemic regarding ensuring that the pro-vaccine narrative was pushed and all skepticism silenced.

“There was a very, very deep centralized [COVID] narrative, and Google really was the leader in making sure that that narrative was 'the truth.' They censored so many voices,” she says. “And I found myself married to the guy that started the company.”

“It’s a big problem for anyone to find themselves in,” she admits.

“Can you tell me a little bit more about what [the tech wife] world is like? How deeply indoctrinated is it in progressive ideology?” Allie asks.

“I think at the heart of the progressive billionaire wife mafia is a real desire to want to be liked, to give back, and to be celebrated for doing good work,” is Shanahan’s honest answer.

“Then the wealth sets in,” she adds, noting that the money comes in “not necessarily because their tech husband is an exceptional entrepreneur,” but rather because “the government helped fund their husband at some point along the way.”

“If you look at the history of Google or the history of Facebook or the history of Apple … these companies didn’t just spring up out of nowhere. They came through institutional backing at some point,” Shanahan explains. “And so it’s no surprise that the intertwining between the Democratic Party, which is so prevalent in California, and these companies has just always been there.”

“I don’t think that the wives necessarily are bad people, but I think that their worlds are so small, and they actually have no idea how small those worlds are because they can’t break free of it, and they feel this need to contribute to these causes that are within that very small sphere of influence, and that’s their only litmus test of am I valuable or am I not valuable?” she says.

If that wasn’t sad enough, according to Shanahan, these women are also pawns in the game of the World Economic Forum’s “Great Reset,” a nefarious world domination plot wrapped in false humanitarianism.

“The tech mafia wives, I believe, were kind of being conscripted in many ways, and their money was especially being conscripted in to set the groundwork for the Great Reset, specifically through a network of NGO advisers, relationship with Hollywood, relationship with Davos, and their own companies.”

These women, she says, lead incredibly busy lives; “their kids oftentimes have health issues”; “a lot of them have relationship issues with their husbands; and a lot of them themselves are medicated on SSRIs and antidepressants … so it’s chaos, and these women find their meaning through their philanthropic work.”

“My self-worth was my philanthropic work,” Shanahan confessed. “I really believed that I was giving black communities a chance to rise up out of oppression. I really believed I was helping indigenous communities rise up out of oppression.”

But when she took an honest look at what all that money was actually accomplishing, she realized that the communities were actually getting worse in every area.

These tech mafia wives, however, don’t understand that their money and time are actually being funneled into a fundamentally “broken” system that “makes everybody worse off.”

To hear more of the conversation, watch the episode above.

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From tragedy to baptism: Nicole Shanahan shares her incredible journey to faith in Jesus



Silicon Valley attorney, entrepreneur, and philanthropist Nicole Shanahan became a household name last year when she stepped into the political spotlight as Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate in his 2024 independent presidential campaign.

Many also know Shanahan for her outspokenness about severing ties with the Democrat Party and her MAHA enthusiasm, but now she has another story to tell — one that blows the rest out of the water.

Nicole Shanahan is a born-again Christian.

She recently joined Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable” to share her incredible, yet tragedy-ridden journey to faith in Jesus Christ.

Things started to shift for Shanahan when she realized that there was “something happening globally as it relates to the spirit of humanity” — something that was “bigger than politics.”

“Part of my journey to my baptism was really challenging and painful,” she admits, noting that many of these hardships took place while she was on the campaign trail.

While she’s believed in God since she was a child, Shanahan says that her “interpersonal relationship” with Him evolved dramatically during the election season that put her “through the fire.”

“You get put on your knees quite a bit,” she says. “I needed to hear God’s voice. I needed guidance.”

Not only was it “not an ordinary election,” but Shanahan and her partner, Jacob Strumwasser, suffered a horrific personal tragedy. In September 2024, Shanahan had a miscarriage at 20 weeks pregnant.

“It was really scary. I almost lost my life,” she tells Allie, adding that she “lost over four liters of blood” and that her condition was so severe that “the chaplain came in” before she was sent into surgery.

“I was taken so close to the end … and I could feel it,” but “I came back; I woke up,” she says.

On top of her miraculous recovery, Shanahan says that she witnessed several events that “in the strictly materialistic world don’t make sense” but “in the spiritual world [are] well defined.”

On January 19, 2025, the day before President Trump’s inauguration, Shanahan was baptized in her back yard in Atherton, California.

She shared her spiritual journey and baptism in a touching X post last month.

However, before she became a Christian, Shanahan had converted to Judaism.

“At what point did you realize ‘wow, this Jesus person is who He says He is, and Christianity is true’?” Allie asks.

Shanahan says that when the campaign was launched, she started spending a lot of time with Zach Henry, a Texas-born evangelical Christian who “helped launch Vivek Ramaswamy’s political career” before he joined RFK Jr.’s campaign team.

“Zach’s presence and his love of the Bible and Jesus is one of the things that really changed me and my perspective of evangelicals. … I’m from Oakland; I spent all my time in progressive circles, and white Christians and evangelical nationalists were ‘destroying America,’” Shanahan reflects.

In her circle, Christians were seen as “unempathetic,” “unintelligent,” and “hateful.”

“And here I am with Zach Henry, the first evangelical Christian in my life, and I’m like, this guy is incredibly nice, also really smart … incredibly compassionate, and so my biases all go out the window,” she recounts.

People in her world, she says, “spend tens of thousands of dollars on therapy” to have the kind of level-headedness Zach exemplifies every day as a result of his faith.

The woman who baptized her, Diane Robinson, also played a pivotal role in her Christian journey.

The week after Nicole came out of the hospital after suffering a miscarriage, she met Diane Robinson, the lead chaplain at the Santa Rita Jail.

At that time, her life, she says, was in “such incredible discord” between her recent tragedy, her political position as RFK Jr.’s running mate, and her recent divorce and custody battle with ex-husband Sergey Brin.

Then “Diane Robinson comes into my life, and she opens the Bible right in front of me,” says Shanahan. “She’s like, ‘You need to think about Jesus’ blood”’ — specifically “the power of Jesus’ blood.”

While blood was the last thing Shanahan wanted to think about at the time, Diane was right to point her to Jesus’ blood because it’s “the most sacred covenant.”

“My world was so full of pain in that moment, and there’s still pain. There’s so much pain. But to know that you’re not alone, that Jesus’ blood was shed for us humans in this world of pure discord so that we know our souls belong to Him … and that God loves us so deeply and that even in our moment of pain and death, we actually can know with 100%, without any doubt, that we are in God’s kingdom,” she tells Allie.

It’s this knowledge that allows her “to do the right thing.”

To hear more of Nicole Shanahan’s incredible journey to faith in Christ, watch the episode above.

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Prosperity gospel ‘royalty’: Did this money-minded pastor really repent?



Costi Hinn is the nephew of multimillionaire preacher Benny Hinn, who preached the prosperity gospel — which is the belief that if you have faith in God, God will provide you with security and prosperity in the material world.

And this multimillionaire did not take criticism lightly.

“If people, maybe like you or others, would say things about us or criticize,” Costi Hinn tells Allie Beth Stuckey on “Relatable,” “we would say, ‘We’re being persecuted like Paul and like Jesus,’ and so I grew up with this chip on my shoulder.”

“And Baptists and like nondenominational Christians or people like you who will speak truth on things, you are all dead Christians. You don’t have the spirit, you don’t have the power,” he continues, adding, “And so that was the way I grew up.”


However, one small interaction challenged his entire belief system while he was playing baseball at Dallas Baptist University.

“I had already worked for my uncle, and so I rolled up on the DBU campus in a black H2 Hummer and had like a $10,000 watch, and my Baptist coach, who literally is one of the best hitting coaches in college baseball,” he recalls, “is sitting there. And he, at the time, drives this white Camry, super mellow guy.”

“He’s talking about God’s sovereignty, and he’s saying like, ‘Guys, don’t worry about scouts and getting drafted, Proverbs 21:1 says, the heart of the king is like channels of water in the hand of the Lord. He turns it wherever he wishes, he controls kings, scouts, leaders, the world. Don’t worry, God’s sovereign, you just control what you can control, play hard, and trust the Lord,’” Hinn explains.

“I always used to make fun of him in my head, like, ‘This Baptist dude with this white Camry, like I know how to control God and get him to do what I want, and what does this guy even know,’” he continues.

Despite his inner protests, this is what planted the seed that would change his life and led to him preaching the true gospel.

But that hasn’t come without cost.

“He doesn’t want to talk to me,” Hinn says of his famous uncle, Benny. “He’s pretty upset still. My family is a very tight-knit Middle Eastern-cultured family, where no matter what you do, don’t go against the family. We’d say blood is thicker than water.”

“I’ve described the way I grew up as a hybrid between the royal family and the mafia royal family because of the lavish wealth, and we flew on Gulfstream jets and lived the high life, the highest life,” he continues. “When we left, we were cut off. No money, no safety, we got death threats.”

Rumors have swirled in the past that his uncle had repented for his false teachings, but Hinn claims that if he did, it was “not truly.”

“He would repent throughout these intervals in history. Like in the '90s when he said that God was going to burn all homosexuals in America with fire,” Hinn says. “He said Jesus was going to physically show up in Africa, and he would apologize later because he would just get raked over the coals by a lot of wise, faithful pastors.”

“He apologized, said, ‘I’ll never do it again.’ Then, he would falsely prophesy again and then again,” he adds.

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Fallen pastor of Dallas church Steven Lawson breaks silence 5 months after he’s caught in extramarital relationship



Last September, Steven J. Lawson, 73, the former lead preacher at Trinity Bible Church in Dallas, Texas, and former president of OnePassion Ministries, was removed from both posts when it was revealed that he had an “inappropriate relationship” with a woman who was not his wife.

After the news broke, Lawson dropped off the public radar and went radio-silent.

However, on March 12, 2025, he finally broke his silence.

Allie Beth Stuckey addresses his statement.

“I think a lot of people have been very frustrated by the silence that Steven Lawson has prolonged,” she says.

“He says he hasn't said anything because he wanted to make sure that his repentance was real; however, I understand how basically being ghosted by your spiritual mentor … was really hurtful, much more hurtful than if he had come out right away and at least given some clarity, some transparency, and then said, ‘Hey, I'm going to be taking a step back from all public communication,’” Allie explains.

However, when Trinity Bible and OnePassion Ministries released their initial statements about Lawson, it wasn’t clear whether or not Lawson had repented. The statements made it seem like he had been caught but had yet to acknowledge and turn away from his sin.

Now we know that to be true, which might explain his months-long silence.

On March 12, Lawson broke his silence with the following X post:

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While Allie believes that Lawson’s repentance is sincere, she’s confused about why he (or his PR team) felt the need to share “all of these weekly religious activities.”

To the prayer meetings, communion, counseling, and other activities Lawson says he’s participating in, Allie says, “I hope and pray and believe [those things] correspond to real heart change and real humility. I'm not doubting the sincerity there, but are are these answers to questions that people have?”

The bigger concerns, she says, are what really happened, whether or not he was being sincere all those years he was preaching and simultaneously engaging in this extramarital relationship, and how his wife and children are handling the situation.

“Listing all of the repentance-centered activities that are happening every week to me just comes across as defensive, and I'm not sure that that's what people need to hear in this moment,” she says, noting that she nonetheless has a lot of grace for Lawson and believe his repentance is sincere.

However, she thinks that several important things are missing from his statement. To hear them, watch the episode above.

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Trump vows to destroy Thomas Massie. Will he win?



The HR 1968 Continuing Resolution was passed in the House of Representatives in order to prevent a federal government shutdown and will trim $13 billion in non-defense spending from the levels in the 2024 budget year and increase defense spending by $6 billion if written into law.

While most Republicans are on board, Thomas Massie has refused to sign the bill — and Rand Paul has also spoken out against it.

“Despite @DOGE’s findings of loony left-wing USAID programs, the Republican spending bill continues to fund the very foreign aid @elonmusk proposes to cut! The bill continues spending at the inflated pandemic levels and will add $2T to the debt this year. Count me as a hell no!” Paul wrote in a post on social media platform X.


“Marco Rubio came out today and said 83% of USAID programs have been terminated,” Allie Beth Stuckey’s father, Ron Simmons, tells Stuckey on “Relatable.” “So I’m not sure what Rand Paul is saying. It may not be doing everything he wants it to, I get that, but we are making progress and the wheels of progress do not turn on a dime.”

“And this is what your friend Thomas Massie does not understand,” he continues. “Take a win when you can get a win, and go back, and get another win later. That’s what you do.”

“His beef, it seems like, is that he doesn’t believe, just in principle, in these omnibus bills. He wants the bills to be separated so the American people and so Congress actually have time to read what is in them,” Stuckey counters.

“I appreciate that level of transparency, I think his constituents do. I’m not even saying that you’re wrong,” she continues, noting that Trump is now taking his attack on Massie too far.

“Congressman Thomas Massie, of beautiful Kentucky, is an automatic ‘NO’ vote on just about everything, despite the fact that he has always voted for Continuing Resolutions in the past. HE SHOULD BE PRIMARIED, and I will lead the charge against him,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

“He’s just another GRANDSTANDER, who’s too much trouble, and not worth the fight. He reminds me of Liz Cheney before her historic, record breaking fall (loss!) The people of Kentucky won’t stand for it, just watch. DO I HAVE ANY TAKERS???” he continued.

“That’s too far. I agree with you on that one,” Simmons responds.

“I mean, that’s insane,” Stuckey agrees.

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Ex-New Ager reveals cults’ secret invasion of the church



Melissa Dougherty was far into the New Age way of thinking before having her first child and having her deep-seated beliefs challenged — and ultimately debunked.

“Of all people, it was two Jehovah’s Witnesses that challenged me, and I’m researching them, and as I’m researching them I’m realizing, ‘Oh, what I believe is wrong, because if the Bible is true, then what they believe is wrong, but if the Bible is true, what I believe is wrong,’” she tells Allie Beth Stuckey of “Relatable.”

“So it was kind of a rug that got pulled out from underneath me, but after I got out of it I’m like, 'Yeah, I’m an ex-New Ager,'” she continues.


While the New Age movement often gets confused with New Thought, they are not the same — but both are infiltrating Christianity. New Thought places more of an emphasis on a divine power as the source.

“One of the problems that I see, personally, with specifically New Thought teachings,” she tells Stuckey, are practices like “affirmations.”

“What a lot of people don’t realize is what affirmations are is New Thought prayers. They were created by the New Thought movements to speak affirmative prayer in the now, in order for you to basically manifest what it is.”

“You don’t ask, in other words, you say it as if you had it and then your feelings are very, very important. Feelings are everything in New Thought. That’s where your power is,” she explains.

When Dougherty discusses these beliefs with Christians, she’s realized that the more progressive Christians have ideas that often align with the New Thought movement.

“New Thought as a movement is interwoven throughout America, but it’s also something that is adopted within many churches by many Christians, and it gives you this alternative Jesus, it gives you this alternative gospel that sounds a lot like the progressive gospel,” she explains.

“These are two different movements to be sure, but the fact that I can find so many New Thought beliefs among progressives is very interesting,” she continues, noting that phrases like “your true authentic self” are interwoven into both lines of thinking.

“And so much of what you said, we can see specifically in a variety of ways in progressivism, but gender is the first one that comes to mind,” Stuckey comments.

“When you serve the God of self,” she continues, adding, “You have the power of speech to declare a new reality that everyone else must then submit to.”

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