You're listening to the hashtag STRASK podcast coming to you from Stan to Reason.

And Greg, this first question comes from Kimberly. Kimberly, got it.

My sister, who is heavily in the new thought occultist movement, is getting married. The venue

will be on their property where they have a meditation yurt, drum campfire circle, and other

new age things. She is very outspoken against Christianity.

Should I attend her wedding?

Well, when we've talked about this kind of thing before, we have taken into consideration the nature of the thing that you are celebrating.

When we talk about same-sex marriage, we've recommended that people not attend same-sex

weddings, so-called, because a wedding is a celebration.

And a same-sex union is not the kind of thing that a Christian can celebrate.

Now, I know the reasons why people have given, maybe you should, and there's been some

controversy about some statements in the last year or so, but we've been pretty consistent

about this and think that you can't celebrate same-sex unions. Weddings are celebrations of same-sex unions, therefore you can't go to same-sex wedding celebrations. And I think that's sound. Now, when you have other religious beliefs that are involved, it's not clear to me that if you go to the wedding of somebody who has other views, that you are celebrating those views.

So we wouldn't accept or hold to modern Judaism, but if I were invited to go to a wedding of two Jewish

people, I wouldn't have any qualms about that, because I'm not affirming Judaism. I'm affirming

the relationship and the wedding and the union.

And so, I mean, one might be a bit uncomfortable with that kind of environment.

I actually went to a wedding at Wayfarist Chapel that's here in Southern California,

and that's all Swedenborgianism or something like that.

I saw a new thought.

That's up in Palis Verde, it's a little bitty thing.

But I didn't have any difficulties,

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