1.30.2006
Pagans Are The Target, We Are The Enemy
I didn't even know that there was a "Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet" think tank. Or that they held a conference in which they name modern Paganism, gnostic thought, and those who acknowledge a metaphysical reality different from a Christian one are the enemy to whom they need to bring the fight.
"I just got off the plane from the first CWiPP-THINK (Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet, a think tank), and the message was clear: secularism is dead and is about to be fully possessed by an in-your-face paganism: the worship of creation. And the conference was as heterogeneous as the church gets - not just theologians and pastors and missionaries, but also journalists, playwrights, screenwriters, directors - and all were gathered to discuss the rise of pagan spirituality: from the democrats to the uber-feminists to the panspermian evolutionists. But this religion looks and sounds more like the polytheism and Gnosticism circa B.C. and early A.D. than anything remotely monotheistic. In short, the New Age isn't new anymore, and this isn't the dawning of the Age of Aquarius: it's more like noon...The experiences and testimony were the same: the day of the atheist and agnostic is (mostly) past, and Christians need to recognize that our fight is less with secularism than with men and women who acknowledge a metaphysical reality very different from ours."
Those ranting about the evil secularists are behind the curve. We seem to be the "it" enemy for the forward-thinking conservative Christian.
I didn't even know that there was a "Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet" think tank. Or that they held a conference in which they name modern Paganism, gnostic thought, and those who acknowledge a metaphysical reality different from a Christian one are the enemy to whom they need to bring the fight.
"I just got off the plane from the first CWiPP-THINK (Christian Witness to a Pagan Planet, a think tank), and the message was clear: secularism is dead and is about to be fully possessed by an in-your-face paganism: the worship of creation. And the conference was as heterogeneous as the church gets - not just theologians and pastors and missionaries, but also journalists, playwrights, screenwriters, directors - and all were gathered to discuss the rise of pagan spirituality: from the democrats to the uber-feminists to the panspermian evolutionists. But this religion looks and sounds more like the polytheism and Gnosticism circa B.C. and early A.D. than anything remotely monotheistic. In short, the New Age isn't new anymore, and this isn't the dawning of the Age of Aquarius: it's more like noon...The experiences and testimony were the same: the day of the atheist and agnostic is (mostly) past, and Christians need to recognize that our fight is less with secularism than with men and women who acknowledge a metaphysical reality very different from ours."
Those ranting about the evil secularists are behind the curve. We seem to be the "it" enemy for the forward-thinking conservative Christian.
Comments:
"CWIPP seeks to explain the two religious options vying for the modern mind (Christianity and Paganism)"
I could think of another rival monotheistic religion too, if they really want a "worthy opponent."
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"CWIPP seeks to explain the two religious options vying for the modern mind (Christianity and Paganism)"
I could think of another rival monotheistic religion too, if they really want a "worthy opponent."
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