Everything’s Coming Up Pagan!

No really. If you support stem-cell research you are.

“We continue to go down the path of 21st-century paganism by sacrificing human life to the god of human comfort and convenience.” – Patricia Rowlands (letter to The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

If your not an atheist, but not a Christian there is a good chance you are.

“Zulehner cautions, however, that in the rest of Europe re-Christianization is by no means occurring. ‘What we are observing instead is a re-paganization,’ he went on, and this worries Christian theologians such as Munich’s Pannenberg and the Rev. Gerald McDermott, an Episcopal priest and professor of religion and philosophy at Roanoke College in Salem, Va. For although in every major European city except Paris spirituality is booming, according to Zulehner, this only proves the emergence of a diffuse belief system, Pannenberg said, but not the revitalization of traditional Christian religious faith. Observing a similar phenomenon in the United States, McDermott stated that the ‘rise of all sorts of paganism is creating a false spirituality that proves to be a more dangerous rival to the Christian faith than atheism.’ After all, a Satanist is also ’spiritual.’” – Insight Magazine

If you support UN policy you are.

“But, of course, UN sanctioned paganism is a religion with its own ethical standards; and those standards stand radically opposed to the morality established by the Moral Governor of this universe.” – Garnet Milne, Scoop

You fans of a secular government? Guess what? Yep!

“Avaricious, guile-filled, secular and sometimes tragically well meaning American leadership has coaxed effete American Christians off the boat and into the murky waters of paganism where we thrash about in the throes of suffocation.” – Al Cronkrite, Ether Zone

Don’t think you liberals are going to get out of this!

“The next 10-15 years will decide whether America succumbs to a ‘neo-pagan triumph,’ Land said, or if it returns to a Judeo-Christian moral consensus where rape and illegitimacy are rare, marriage and child-rearing are valued, and prisons are converted into museums.” – Doug Waters, Florida Baptist Witness

I for one will welcome our new Pagan overlords!

Tags: Neopaganism