Look back at history among the pagans,Rome is an excellent example.
Homosexuality,all desires of the flesh involving children, eating, drinking,and making slaves of other nations. Denying God and making up mythical gods to adore and sacrifice to.
Agreed. We often talk about the persecution of Nero against the early Christians. And it was heinous, indeed.
However, in my opinion, there was none more licentious than Caligula with his decadent sex parties and his insane pleasure killings. But, of course, all that eventually led to his assassination.
Abortion is legal. R Kelly was just convicted today for sex trafficking teens. We worship Hollywood and it's stars. We have all manner of herectical so called churches ( scientology is one bad thing)
You hit on a lot of topics here. And most of these anomalies have been around for over 100 years.
For example, Joseph Smith started Mormonism in the 1820s. The Watchtower Society had already published the first edition of their apostate New World Translation in 1918. And L. Ron Hubbard finished his book Dianetics in 1950, creating the first spark for the Scientology movement.
We don't celebrate Easter as a Passover and the day of our risen Lord! Christmas is a joke and totally pagan as well.
Within the Edict of Milan in AD 313, Roman emperor Constantine declared all Christians free from persecution. He then changed the Jewish Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday. And he even went as far as to erect Christian monuments, build enormous houses of worship, and offer state funding to various religious activities.
However, all this benevolence toward Christians— and Jews, for that matter— came at an enormous spiritual cost that we're still paying for today. What Constantine did to Christ's church was cloak it in paganism. And it has been tainted ever since.
Of course, the great protestant reformation in the 16th century was an enormous blessing to us even to this day. But some of the remnants of church tradition started by Constantine are still with us in 2021.
We are as all fallen pagan nations...... EAT,DRINK,AND BE MERRY,not acknowledging tomorrow we die but tomorrow we get to do it again as not taking into account our souls!
The term paganism is somewhat vague, where Christians over the centuries have taken it to mean any religion outside of the Gospel. So, by definition, paganism really isn't organized religion. However, what's interesting is that, during the past twenty years, it has gained traction as a movement, if not a full-blown religion, complete with religious symbols and gatherings.
One final thought. I'm not sure that I buy the argument the US is a Christian nation. But I do believe that most of our traditions are steeped in Judeo-Christian values.
And the fact that we seem to be getting away from those traditions is not necessarily because we're in the end times. I believe it's because of the cultural shift from institutional precepts into a smaller, more communal order.
And once we finally settle into this new alignment, I believe we're going to experience a revival of the magnitude we've never seen before.