Deepak Chopra

Religious Expert: Mass Media Promotes New-Age Spirituality
By Paul Wilson | January 25, 2012 | 3:55 PM EST

A noted Christian religious expert is the latest to confirm something careful watchers of the media have known for years: The American media is peddling New Age spirituality to its viewers as a substitute for traditional religion.

On January 24, the Christian Post reported that Ravi Zacharias, the founder of Ravi Zacharias International Ministries and a noted Christian apologist, warned that the mass media is trying to push New Age ideas on the general population in his book "Why Jesus? Rediscovering His Truth In an Age of Mass Marketed Spirituality."

99 Percent? Top 25 Occupy Wall Street Backers Worth Over $4 Billion
By Paul Wilson | December 28, 2011 | 8:27 AM EST

Occupy Wall Street attacks income inequality and the richest 1 percent, adopting as its slogan ''we are the 99 percent.'' In October, its protesters staged a ''millionaires march' 'in New York City, parading to the homes of wealthy citizens such as Rupert Murdoch and David Koch. But only some riches bother the Occupiers, who have ignored the massive wealth of celebrities in their own ranks.

The top 25 richest celebrities supporting Occupy Wall Street, according to the website Celebrity Net Worth, possess a combined net worth just over $4 billion.

YouTube? More Like LibTube
By Paul Wilson | November 2, 2011 | 10:58 AM EDT

You Tube is launching a series of nearly 100 new channels. The set of new channels is laden with liberal voices and controversial material, and is practically devoid of conservative and Christian voices.

Liberal-leaning channels include offerings from sources such as Slate, The Chopra Well (with Deepak Chopra, a New Age guru and Huffington Post contributor), and Take Part TV (makers of Al Gore's 2006 global warming scare documentary ''An Inconvenient Truth'').

Top Ten Richest Celebrities Supporting Wall Street Protests
By Noel Sheppard | October 12, 2011 | 8:52 AM EDT

On Tuesday, NewsBusters told you about some of the wealthy television news anchors hypocritically supporting the Occupy Wall Street movement.

As an interesting follow-up, Brian Warner of Celebrity Net Worth has published a list of the top ten richest celebrities that have as of now officially backed the protesters:

'Nightline' Excludes Christian Scholars from Debate on the Devil
By Colleen Raezler | March 27, 2009 | 4:33 PM EDT

<p><object align="right" width="250" height="202"><param name="movie" value="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydkUqGqG8z&amp;sm=1"></para... name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.eyeblast.tv/public/eyeblast.swf?v=ydkUqGqG8z&amp;sm=1" allowfullscreen="true" align="right" width="250" height="202"></embed></object>ABC explored the existence of Satan during the March 26 &quot;Nightline&quot; but stacked the deck in favor of those who do not believe the devil exists.</p><p>Harris invited internationally known, and in some circles, renowned, New Age guru Deepak Chopra to argue that Satan does not exist. Bishop Carlton Pearson, hailed as a &quot;former fundamentalist preacher who says he used to cast demons out his followers,&quot; joined Chopra. </p> <p>Mark Driscoll, labeled a &quot;hip yet hard-line preacher,&quot; and Annie Lobert, a former prostitute and leader of the &quot;<a href="http://www.cultureandmediainstitute.org/articles/2009/20090313125327.asp... for Jesus</a>&quot; outreach program in Las Vegas, represented the view that the devil does exist. Lobert herself noted her lack of intellectual credentials, &quot;I don't have a theologian background, but I have 16 years of experience of walking with the Devil so I know he's real for sure.&quot;</p>

CBS: The Chopra Baloney Service
By Tim Graham | November 12, 2008 | 8:59 PM EST

Network television is never comfortable discussing religion – unless the expert is an Oprah-pleasing liberal New Age guru like Deepak Chopra. Fresh from asserting religious people should take their faith and shove it before they enter the voting booth, Chopra was interviewed on Tuesday’s Early Show on CBS about his new book about Jesus (or, more accurately, manufacturing an entirely new Jesus).

Using anxiety over the economic crisis as a hook, CBS twice plugged his appearance as a chance to hear from "one of the pioneers of spirituality and personal development of our time." While Chopra babbled on with very non-Christian concepts about how Heaven is the "creative part inside you," and how we have to adjust capitalism to "nurture the ecosystem," anchor Harry Smith didn’t find anything controversial in his loathing for traditional Christianity or Catholicism.

In February, Chopra came out with a book called The Third Jesus, and in a Reuters report, he denounced present-day Christianity as hateful and divisive and political, and ultimately dismissed it as "inanity of the utmost extreme." CBS was too busy touting its "pioneer of spirituality" to find this controversy: