Posted on 10/31/2017 5:43:52 AM PDT by C19fan
As millennials continue to leave traditional Christian religions, interest in Wiccan and pagan practices have seen increased interest in recent years, a trend also spotted among young people and on college campuses.
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Not surprising. It’s an easy-way-out approach to religion.
Better than islam. Anything is better than islam.
When you don’t have to work for a living, you have a lot of free time on your hands.
Yawn- These people were not Christians to begin with- (Note, there may be a few young true Christians who delve in it out of ignorance- but most are not true Christians- never were) True Christianity remains strong- back in 2012 in the us 45% identified as born again Christians specifically
http://wordunplugged.com/forty-five-percent-born-again/
worldwide there are approx 2.1 billion ‘Christians’ (I’m sure this includes those who have not accepted Christ as Savior but who call themselves Christians anyways)
There are about 7.5 billion people in the world- so a little less than 1/3 of the world claim to be Christian-
So stories like the article don’t really mean anything=- all it means is that unsaved kids, who are not of the elect, now think it’s chic to be a wiccan or witch or warlock or whatever- nothing new under the sun-
All these other religious cults are but a short step to Islam, even Scientology, which technically, believes in no god at all, but the supreme humanism inherent in every mind once scarred with “engrams”, but now “cleared”.
Allah comes on as a much “stronger” god, as all the enemies are deserving of punishment, and Allah gives the follower an excuse and a way to find the “enemies”.
Talk about feeding paranoia.
Comic books tend to foster paganism.
Great interview tactic: Engage an idiot in comic book discussion. If they are fluent, pass them up.
Pagans and Muslims are both going to Hell.
Just another sign of the End Times and the imminent return of our Lord.
Impotent Christian, go along, get along, churches that fail to stand for anything aren’t likely to have much moral authority.
A pope who espouses communism in mixed messages?
An Anglican church that is subordinate to Islam? (BTW, Islam is far too rigid and rigorous to for millennials.) Protestants who bend to every government social program without looking at the soul more than the body?
Paganism is religion in search of faith and structure.
The allure of a cult like appearance makes it shine.
Paganism will loose luster when it fails to provide the immediate gratification millennials crave, but will Christians find and practice their faith or be Christian in name only?
But can they dress as Wiccans for Halloween?
[interest in Wiccan and pagan practices]
WITCHCRAFT and PAGANISM have the same SOURCE (SATAN) as ISLAM - just a different form. EVIL is EVIL.
Dear fling,
re: “When you don’t have to work for a living, you have a lot of free time on your hands.”
I know millenials that DO work at jobs more demanding than burger flipping, and I do NOT mean ‘show up for a paycheck’.
Turning to another religion isn’t a matter of “how much free time someone has”. That is more of an airhead liberal train of thought, driven by vacuous emotions, rather than reasoning behind the intended change.
Within Christianity, how many folks do you witness floating from Methodist, to Episcopalian, to Baptist, till they find ‘a new home church’?
To be honest, any ‘other than Christianity’ religion, takes a bit of time and effort, to grasp any concepts, because of different thought processes involved.
Now, to be fair, there are, and have been, too many models of ‘being Christian’, broadcast over radio and TV, for a whole lot of years, that have been ‘fakirs’. Some exposed, some not so much. (Billy Graham is excluded from this.) These ‘fakirs’ drive away as many as might come forward, but are remembered MORE.
Not just hippie lefties either, I’m afraid. The European rightwing has neopagan cliches that are becoming more and more prounounced. Wouldn’t be surprised if the same threads are coming up over here.
The seventies revisited. This stuff cycles through culture. I’m old enough to remember the New Age movement of the late 70’s-early 80’s. Wicca, astrology, past life regression etc., etc. It goes back to two old sayings, “When you don’t belie e in something you’ll fall for anything” and “If God didn’t exist man would have to invent him.” If you want throw in religion being the opiate of the masses from our good friend Mr. Marx. People need to believe in something to make life worthwhile and tolerable. Mainstream Christianity fails to understand that.
Witchcraft is demonology. Not hard to see where America is heading with govt as God. It’s good for business, though.
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