The Millennial Generation is the first generation of the modern era to receive a fully-developed neo-pagan cosmology masquerading as the correct, progressive view of history and demanding to be inscribed in public policy.
In 1982 Francis A. Schaeffer in his A Christian Manifesto warned the Church:
“Christians…have seen things in bits and pieces… permissiveness, pornography, the
public schools, the breakdown of the family, and finally abortion… instead of totals
…They have not seen this as a totality–a shift in the world view — that is,…a funda-
mental change in the overall way people think and view the world and whole life as
a whole.” (Schaeffer)
This has become a cosmology of worldview or network of plausibility structures so radical it can take your breath away, as stated some years ago by the futurist thinker, Jeremy Rifkin, an adviser to the European Union since 2002 and head of the largest global economic development team in the world. In 1983 at a point in the maturation of the 60’s cultural revolution, he declared in A New Word– A New World:
“We no longer feel ourselves to be guests in someone else’s home and therefore
obliged to make our behavior conform with a set of preexisting cosmic rules. It is our creation now. We make the rules. We establish the parameters of reality. We
create the world, and because we do, we no longer feel beholden to outside forces.
We no longer have to justify our behavior, for we are now the architects of the
universe. We are responsible for nothing outside ourselves, for we are the kingdom,
the power, and the glory forever.” (Rifkin)
“Many consider paganism a dead religion that was practiced thousands of years ago. However, paganism’s ideas still affect us today. In this session, Dr. Peter Jones describes how paganism continues to be a force in today’s culture. He points out places where pagan thought affects the world’s way of thinking, and he describes how Christians can guard against that influence. He also explains ways that Christians can renew their minds and live as children of God among a twisted generation.
This message is from our 2015 National Conference, After Darkness, Light.” -Ligonier Ministries
Jim Wallace says
March 4, 2015 at 5:48 pmThank you Peter for this magnificent address. We have in Australia The Greens political party who despite their supposed environmentalist motivation are without doubt pagan, not only worshipping creation and denying the creator, but of course like all these pagans disguised as “progressives”, paradoxically promoting every unnatural cause including homosexuality and all its attendant perversions of sexuality, gender neutrality etc.
Please don’t stop giving your message,
Jim
Australia
Ken and Iola Haarhoff says
March 4, 2015 at 7:41 pmWe found this very helpful in understanding what is behind the total change in attitudes toward anything Christian. We have no resistance to talk about “God” but any mention of Jesus as the Saviour or of people being guilty is vigorously rejected.
David Cadenhead says
March 5, 2015 at 11:13 amSuberb presentation. They have not only received but have demanded it in place of Christendom that has been in plan and place since Creation. Theosophy Crowley, Blavatsky were touting this junk 100 years ago before the 1st World War. Makes me sick. Thank you Truth X Change.
Linda Kimball says
March 7, 2015 at 3:10 pmThank-you Dr. Jones for your tireless, sacrificial work on behalf of our Lord and the body of His Church.
While we’ve been ‘sleeping’, America has been undergoing a dramatic worldview change from its’ founding two-dimensional Christian-based worldview to a one-dimensional naturalistic worldview undergirded by occult pantheistTechnocracy, Transhumanism, Scientism, Evolution, moral relativism and androgyny, the pagan ideal. Thus the re-definition of marriage follows the re-definition of man as uncreated emergent androgynous product of evolutionary energies acting on matter over millions of years. This is why, at the behest of global Technocrats, the Obama administration America has become the world’s perverse-sex cop intervening in the workings of other nations where sodomy, lesbianism and worse are not promoted and tolerated. America’s tax-payer financed State Department and other federal agencies have not only strengthened the work already done in pursuit of this evil but have initiated additional efforts to crush dissent in defense and promotion of all things unnatural.(Obama offers plan for U.S. to be global LGBT sex cop, Bob Unruh, WND, 12/7, 2011)
The gay (androgynous) juggernaut, moral relativism, unfettered killing defined as ‘choice,’ pornography as a Constitutional right, apostasy, and other social evils have been unleashed within America and onto the world because in post-Christian America, scientism (spawn of positivism) and anti-creation evolutionary thinking have supplanted God’s Infallible Word.
Anti-creation evolution is promoted by its practitioners as more than mere science. It is promulgated as an ideology, a secular religion,
“…a full-fledged alternative to Christianity, with meaning and morality. I am an ardent evolutionist and an ex-Christian, but I must admit that in this one complaint—and Mr [sic] Gish is but one of many to make it—the literalists are absolutely right. Evolution is a religion. This was true of evolution in the beginning, and it is true of evolution still today.… Evolution therefore came into being as a kind of secular ideology, an explicit substitute for Christianity.” Michael Ruse
Michael Ruse was professor of philosophy and zoology at the University of Guelph, Canada. He was the leading anti-creationist philosopher whose flawed arguments convinced a biased judge to rule against the Arkansas ‘balanced treatment’ of creation and evolution in schools bill proposed in 1981. At the trial, he and other anti-creationists loftily dismissed the claim that evolution was an anti-god religion. (creation.com)
Anti-creation evolution is taken for granted throughout the college curriculum, just as it is in all aspects of modern thought and experience, especially within the progressive liberal community. Anti-creation evolution not only undergirds biological and earth sciences, but also Freudian and Jungian psychology, anthropology, law, sociology, politics, economics, the media, arts, medicine, and all other academic disciplines as well as occult New Age pantheist spirituality and ‘Christian’ theological permutations such as Teilhard de Chardin’s Hindu-pantheist New Religion, Michael Dowd’s God-less evolutionary ‘Christian’ paganism, and the progressive creationism popularized by astronomer Hugh Ross.