Today the dominant spiritual quality of our society is a kind of secular nihilism that worships American power or loses itself in consumerism. The former often combines with a spiritual nihilism that emphasizes God's power over qualities such as love. These currents are incapable of preserving the best of American society because they celebrate power as their ultimate value, or retreat into a purely private existence.
Hope for us lies in those Christian and other long-established religions opening themselves up to immanentist and feminine insights, as well as new religious movements, NeoPaganism in particular, which explicitly emphasize those values as central. It is for these reasons that I think Pagan insights carry far more weight than our rather modest numbers might suggest.
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