HISTORY REPEATING ITSELF

How peculiar that this excerpt is from an 'atheist website'...it seems that truth is emerging not from the 'official church' these days but from sources seemingly opposed to it, but nevertheless full of that once powerful cultural quality we called 'common sense'.

The excerpt is from an article bemoaning the current left-wing push for infanticide:

"It really makes you wonder how people could be this cynical. And getting back to Breitbart's maxim: What kind of culture could produce this? I think the best description is that it is one that sees people as things; mere objects to be exploited by the rich and powerful. It's a culture of commodification of humanity.
And as with so many aspects of culture, it seems to have religious roots. In this case it obviously didn't come from Christianity, since that faith affirms the dignity of the individual person, and many Christians are zealously pro-life. Babylonian Moloch-worship seems to be the ultimate historical force behind this culture.
It's totally bizarre but nonetheless true that many rich and powerful people in the West have been secret members of this and similar anti-Christian religions, cults and secret societies. This has gone on quietly in the shadows for centuries, and now more and more people are waking up to the fact that many of the so-called "great and the good" in Washington in particular got there through allegiance to one or more of these shadowy groups." [M Hayden]

Just two or three days ago some friends and I were discussing trends in Western society.
It appears that having successfully devalued the benefits of the Judeo-Christian worldview in the Western nations people are nevertheless still looking for some expressions of 'spirituality', albeit one that does not make too many demands on the 'believer' and preferably bestows some credibility to boot...for example many of the cultist adoptions by the virtue signalling super rich 'celebrities' feeling guilty about having so much.

The 17th C philosopher/mathematician Blaise Pascal referred to it as the 'God shaped vacuum' in peoples lives.

Anyway, it appears that the philosophies now emerging with second and third generation unbelievers are echoes of ancient belief systems, hence the above excerpt.
I see it in the 'burning man' and 'dark Mofo' 'festivals in America and Australia amongst many other emerging 'cultural events'.

Welcome to irrationality and superstition on steroids.