Mohler on Paganism: Another Heresy
Alternative religions, such as Wicca and Paganism, have been gaining popularity in America over recent years. Approximately 500,000 to 1 million Americans claim Paganism as a spiritual way of life.
Albert Mohler, president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, opines,
The resurgence of paganism in our times is not the recovery of ancient traditions simply reasserted in a new age, but a selective New Age embrace of pagan symbols, themes, and practices in order to add "spirituality" to ideological movements such as feminism and the radical ecologists. The gynecological and pantheistic focus of ancient paganism is exactly what Judaism and Christianity rejected in full — and the embrace of these ancient heresies is further evidence of the widespread rejection of Christianity.
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