NOVAE MILITIAE

This gem from David Mills at the Touchstone blog, http://www.touchstonemag.com/merecomments.html :

A friend who wrote a review of The DaVinci Code for a small magazine forwarded this response:

You silly person !

You sound like a frightened little christian. Afraid of the truth? Afraid the world will find out that the only abomination is christianity? Afraid to find out that the Goddess is the true God of the this world, and your god is just a fable made up to keep the stupid in line? Paganism is back ! And there is NOTHING you can do about it. The reason why the Da Vinci Code was such a Bestseller and sold millions of copies is because people want to hear the truth. They do not want to hear the lies of the christian church anymore. We want our TRUE history told. Not the lies we have been brainwashed to believe under the threat of isolation, branding, or death. Its over. The New Age is upon us. The Age of Pisces has passed. The Age of Aquarius is here ! There is nothing you can do, but fade into history. The Goddess shall rule for another 40,000 years.

I must admire your fight against the inevitable though. Everyone has a right to fight for their survival. Too bad your fight is against Goddess. You can never win.

May you see the light,

T.Collins (Blessed by the Goddess)

Well now , that's a depressing thing to hear, as we've been saying "it was the dog that died" and things like that.

Funny how perspective is everything. Here is Richard John Neuhaus' assessment of the renascent paganism, predicting just the opposite:

Aside from a relatively small number of people putting their souls in peril--a risk freely indulged in various ways by most Americans--I expect the Wiccans do not warrant a prominent place on our list of things to worry about. They are prime candidates for one of those little newspaper squibs ten years from now, under the title "Where are they now?"

I'm thinking the truth may lie somewhere in between. (Neuhaus probably does too, for that matter, and was only having a bit of fun.) Paganism is on the upswing here and abroad. It's hip new religion, a new way to be youthfully countercultural, and it seems to be a natural religion (no pun intended) for many on the radical left, mainly feminists and environmentalists (oh yes, and teenagers). A fitting metaphysic for the left, not to mention cool and trendy. It would therefore be easy for someone like Ms. Collins to mistake religious fad for epoch shift, because the left, like the narcissistic teenager, thinks itself at once the center of the universe and the cutting edge of evolution. Its insular mentality and self-importance could easily lead many within its ranks to conclude that, since "I'm Blessed by the Goddess" and "she's Blessed by the Goddess" and "he's Blessed by the Goddess," why, there's a groundswell on and soon everyone everywhere will be "Blessed by the Goddess" and Christianity will just "fade into history."

But if Ms. Collins is right -- if Christianity is headed for history's dustbin -- then she'd better hope Islam is headed there as well. Unfortunately for her, it would be an understatement to say that there doesn't seem to be much evidence of Islam's decline, and can you see the divisions of the Goddess on the front line against the Jihad? Dar al-ha-ha.