Religion is great for the greedy lazy narcissist, because it is the one thing which justifies anything you want; even the narcissistic love of empty prestige, and no need for any evidence, qualifications, research, effort or proof. Anyone can claim that a holy book, a tradition, an artistic movement, a spiritual awakening, a prophecy, a vision, the supernatural, or imagined gods, support their claim to be a special person and have access to special truth. Who can prove you wrong ? Religion offers lots of props to otherwise unjustifiable claims, by far the best tool for the dishonest, lazy, greedy and self-important.

But some of the selfish narcissists noticed that, not all the props are as strong as others. Imagined humanistic gods especially, do not seem to convince like they once did, and of all the props religion offers to the fake, they seem to be the easiest to undermine. With a lot of people not even willing to accept the idea of them any longer. It seemed like hard work, to have to justify and support claims for one of the props, that you were hoping would really be supporting your fake claims.

But of course the answer was obvious. Just throw out the one weak shaky prop, and the rest will stand up much better. After all nobody ever got a message from imagined gods telling them anything important. And the really great bonus about doing without the gods was, the narcissist could then make the claim that they threw out the humanistic gods, as the result of a deep meaningful insight into the nature of the universe, even more prestige. ( It is not a deep insight, it is just a cheap shallow con-trick. ) You could also claim that by doing so, you had also got rid of religion's evil side. ( You must be a good person therefore. ) It does not of course get rid of anything, least of all the evil, because of course the none existent god is not a source of anything.

And so the so called "New Age Religion", was born. Still with all the props for the unsupportable, and all the fake authority which comes from the so called spiritual and supernatural, to delight the most egotistical of frauds, but no challenge to their fraud, which could come from trying to prove they share a bed with a god at night.

A giant leap forward for fraud and narcissism.

( I don't like New Age, if you had not guessed yet. Please tell me about my failings.)