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

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Cumbey offered the first major criticism of the

New Age movement New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs which rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars consid ...

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

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linking the New Age movement to

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and

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. Scholar of

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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,

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centers, New Thought,

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, secular humanism, and

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. She states that Unitarian churches and health food stores become "New Age recruiting centers", that the

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become one of the New Age movement's paramilitary organizations and that "the New Age Movement has complete identity with the programs of Hitler". 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

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and replace it with a Nazi-like regime. Cumbey is harshly critical of all religions other than Christianity and Judaism, and those who take an interest in them. In the wake of the attacks following the release of ''

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'' she suggested on her blog that the incident might have been a deliberate attempt by New Agers to set their enemies against one each other.

I have my own suspicions that this is an incited thing that is designed to set the three Alice Bailey delineated fundamentalist target groups of Jews, Christians, and Moslems off against each other. I have even uglier feelings that it was cynically produced and put in circulation with just that sort of "kill-off Monotheism" war... I suspect this may be a deliberate and well-financed move to incite the target groups against each other

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*''Is the Antichrist in the World Today? An Interview with Constance Cumbey.''

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: Southwest Radio Church, 1982 *''The New Age Movement: Age of Aquarius, Age of Antichrist.'' (featuring Emil Gaverluk and Noah Hutchings),

: Southwest Radio Church, 1982 *
The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow: The New Age Movement and our Coming Age of Barbarism
' Shreveport, La.: Huntington House, 1983 *
A Planned Deception: The Staging of a New Age Messiah
' East Detroit, Mich: Pointe Publishers, 1986

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What Constance thinks (blog)
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