An American Thinker podcast: The new paganism is worse than the original

American Thinker ^ | 14 Feb, 2025 | Andrea Widburg

[MtnClimber]

For many years now, I’ve noted what other conservatives have seen as well: The West is reverting to paganism. However, I argue that our current iteration is infinitely worse than the old variety was. Why? Because the new pagan gods are worse than the original ones.

Because this recording originated as a talk I gave to a local group, I’ve appended the full transcript at the end of this post.

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My thesis is a simple one: The new paganism sweeping the West is worse than the old paganism because the new gods are worse than the old ones.

I was tempted to begin this talk with the most famous statement in the Western canon, the Bible’s “In the beginning...”

However, for humans, that wasn’t the real beginning. The real beginning was paganism, which developed to address practical concerns, whether the fundamental question—how did humans come into being?—or the practical ones: Why are there natural disasters? Why did the whole village sicken and die? Where did fire come from? The pagans developed huge armies of gods, all tied somehow to physical objects or phenomena, to answer these questions.

The difference between these myths and Biblical faith is profound, something that struck me forcibly when I read Stephen Fry’s Mythos: A Retelling of the Myths of Ancient Greece.

All of us probably know the top myths... Prometheus stealing fire, Pandora’s box, Daedalus and Icarus, etc. Fry, however, tells all the myths, which I found surprisingly boring. I realized this was because the myths have no narrative arc driven by objective moral principles. Instead, they offer endless little retrofitted explanations for observable phenomena. People saw things (for example, spider webs, sunrises, different continents) and created ex post facto rationales

[MtnClimber]

The “gods” of the left are demonic.

[BipolarBob]

[monkeyshine]

I thought this was going to be a thread about sex cults.

[Nervous Tick]

Holy crap! Where did THAT evil thing come from?

[sauropod]

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[MtnClimber]

I thought this was going to be a thread about sex cults.

By Andrea Widberg?

[ViLaLuz]

It’s for real.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Statue_of_Baphomet

[HartleyMBaldwin]

Story hour at a public library?

[Nervous Tick]

Thank you. "They know not what they do"

“Look, I am coming soon, bringing my reward with me to repay all people according to their deeds. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the Beginning and the End.”

Blessed are those who wash their robes. They will be permitted to enter through the gates of the city and eat the fruit from the tree of life. Outside the city are the dogs—the sorcerers, the sexually immoral, the murderers, the idol worshipers, and all who love to live a lie.