The “New Paganism.”       Lewis Brackett
350+- words

   In ancient times, the Earth was worshipped as a god. The trees, the
grass, the creatures large and small all had spirit beings that had to
be appeased for things to go well for mankind.

   There was a god for every occasion. A god for the harvest, for
love, for hate, for the sea and in the clouds for rain. Proper worship
was required for rain and sun in equal measure to provide the harvest.

   Today, the old gods have returned, demanding worship. There are
priests and prophets, and always profits in the mantra of this new but
strangely ancient faith. Doubters are chastised ridiculed, Ostracized
and depersoned in this new climate of unquestionable “truth.” Many of
us wonder when those of us refusing to worship these new gods will be
drug into an arena and torn apart by wild beasts. One pagan leader had
heretics covered in hot wax, then set on fire to light up and enliven
his garden parties.

   The divine prophets of this new golden age insist that stewardship
of Mother Earth is the prime directive of the most sentient of Earth’s
animal creatures.  All other creatures, great and small, must receive
the homage of man.

   This mantra must, is insisted to include the disassembling of the
foundational moral code of centuries, of millennia, as the obvious
prerequisite for inclusion into this new age. Any such hieratical
notions are repugnant and divisive to the new sentience. Any
opposition must be met with re-education before inclusion into our
golden age can be achieved.

   Only the induction of chaos into our world system can result in the
purification of ourselves in the spirit of our divine destiny.

   Our world is groaning under her tiresome load of barely sentient
life. Somehow this immense burden must be lightened, the herd thinned
out so the grass and trees can once again breathe free.

   Mother Earth must regain her pristine glory shed of the over
infestation of presumptive sentience.



*** In the name of the Darwin, the Freud, and the Marx ***

Anon …  J>

Written by Lewis Brackett  Sept 2nd, 2023