The New Paganism
By Joseph Farah--Editor of WorldNetDaily
Comment From Rock Of Offence:
This important article is presented as a warning to our readers. An ungodly agenda has infiltrated trusted religious institutions--and many professing Christians are indifferent about the threat believing that the changes are from God. This story amplifies one of the themes on our website...the emerging end-time false church. Rock of Offense includes this article for informational purposes. Yet, we hold a strong disagreement with the author's assertion that Christianity is a religion. Many hold to his view. Yet, Biblical Christianity is actually diametrically opposed to religion. Religion is only now, in the last days, beginning to rear its ugly head. The reader should take note of this truth. Our inclusion of this article and the link to the author's website does not infer that they are in agreement with our doctrinal position. Yet, we do appreciate the straight-forward reporting of WorldNetDaily at a time when unbiased news is hard to find.
How Christianity is being replaced
by goddess worship, globalism
August 1, 2002
Relentless attacks on America's Christian churches -- not just from without, but from
within -- which are steadily remolding institutionalized Christianity to serve a new,
non-Christian, globalist agenda, are the focus of August's eye-opening edition of
WorldNetDaily's popular monthly Whistleblower magazine.
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Titled "THE NEW PAGANISM," the August issue is subtitled "How America's Christian
churches are being invaded by radical environmentalism, goddess worship and global
government."
For years, Christians have stood by helplessly as their once-dominant religion has been
increasingly scoffed at, marginalized and demonized. They have watched a dizzying
succession of outrageous court decisions -- outlawing the Ten Commandments in schools
and courtrooms, forbidding acknowledgement of God in graduation speeches, and most
recently, declaring public recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance unconstitutional.
And they have reeled at prosecutions that criminalize conscientious Christians, such as
that of the Canadian printer fined $5,000 for refusing to print materials for a "gay
rights" group. Or the shocking revelation that the Swedish parliament is pushing to
amend that country's constitution to ban speech or writing opposing homosexuality --
even within churches themselves -- violations of which could result in prison
sentences.
But while these are the conflict's familiar flashpoints, the real fight lies elsewhere.
Indeed, the biggest war of all is that raging within the churches themselves.
The Catholic Church's devastating clergy sex scandal -- with its seemingly endless
revelations of predatory homosexual priests molesting boys, and the stunning failure of
their superiors to put a stop to it -- is the tip of the iceberg. As August's
Whistleblower shows, the fierce battle for control, not only of the Catholic Church,
but of many of the mainline Protestant denominations as well, is the real story.
The combatants range from the familiar front-line storm troopers -- homosexual
activists, ACLU lawyers, atheists -- to the exotic environmentalists, the United
Nations, globalists, New Agers, witches, occultists and many others almost too strange
to believe. But all are engaged in an ultimate fight -- a battle to the death, winner
takes all -- for control of the major institutions of the Christian religion.
"America is rapidly changing from the jewel of Judeo-Christian Western Civilization to
a screaming babel of wild religious movements, each more wacky than the next, and all
animated by rebellion against the religion and values upon which America was founded,
and which made it the greatest nation in world history," said WND Editor and CEO Joseph
Farah.
And just what, exactly, is attempting to replace Christianity as the dominant religion
in America?
Superficially, it appears to be just a freak show, ranging from the seemingly harmless
"Entertainment Paganism" ("Dungeons and Dragons," "white witchcraft," "Buffy the
Vampire Slayer," "Witchblade") to "Teen Cult Paganism" (teens in Gothic drag, freaky
hair colors, tattoos, body piercing, "body art," black garb, studs and chains) to
"Ecology Theology" (free-form sexual morality, "gaia" worship, native spirituality
rituals) to the wide-ranging "New Age Movement" (believes humankind is on the cusp of a
new dawn, beginning new phase in evolutionary history) to "Dark Paganism" (believes
there's no such thing as "evil," and that destruction and death are forms of beauty) to
"Wicca" (witchcraft is reportedly the fastest growing religion in Australia) and
"Satanism" (consciously acknowledges Satan as master, and seeks power to corrupt all
things, especially Christianity).
But that's only the surface. As WND reveals in this issue of Whistleblower, the
paganization of America's churches -- already well under way -- is consciously intended
to usher in a "new age" of global government, with the United Nations as the global
"brain" of a new world order.
And no, this is not conspiracy stuff. It's real -- and it's happening now.
This "new" religious worldview is sugar-coated with high-minded and universal ideals of
environmental protection and species preservation, but the ultimate agenda behind the
movement is much darker.
The ultimate purpose of "green religion" is to convince the people of the world to
embrace world governance -- which for a free nation like America represents a massive
loss of national sovereignty and personal freedom -- for the supposed sake of Mother
Earth ("gaia") and the environment. After all, it is a lot easier to administer world
government if all people believe it represents their salvation, rather than tyranny.
How is this to be accomplished? To begin with, assign new names to old demons. What
once was called "paganism" has been renamed and assigned a new respectability as the
"gaia hypothesis." The once-hated idea of world government has been renamed "global
governance." The concept of national sovereignty is eroding and transmuting into the
concept of "sovereign equality."
"The vanguard of this movement," explains Henry Lamb in "The rise of global green
religion," "people like James Parks Morton, James Lovelock, Robert Muller, Al Gore,
Timothy Wirth and many, many others, have been 'enlightened' through their biocentric
belief in gaia" -- the belief that the earth itself is a conscious, living organism --
"and therefore they know what is best for the planet. They also know that the only way
to protect the sacred gaia is to control the people who are degrading her. The only way
to control the people is through an omnipotent government that is, at this moment,
consolidating its power into an ever-growing bureaucracy, now stretching around the
globe, extending its tentacles into every corner of human life, creating de facto
global governance."
And guess what? Not only has this new "enlightened" worldview permeated Western schools
and governments, but America's Christian churches themselves also are rapidly being
converted to this new religious paradigm.
Most Americans have no idea this is happening. Many don't want to know. And yet,
Americans are the only power on earth strong enough to prevent global governance from
taking control of the entire planet. The August Whistleblower shows the way back.
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