Odd as it may seem, I keep hearing and reading, with increasing frequency, the term “paganism.”

Pagan: One with little or no religion and who delights in sensual pleasures and material goods. Recognize it?

Historically paganism was the antithesis of religion, an anti-social behavior. Paganism has a very wide spectrum of different thought. Many anti-religious philosophies have trouble defining themselves clearly and with conviction due to unsound basis and unestablished history.

Many have become strange bedfellows, joining forces in an effort to overwhelm rather than use reason. And isn’t the Bible their greatest adversary? Agree or disagree?

Why now? Why approach a once “way out” subject? I guess the recent Federal Judiciary decisions and the decade of government bias has changed things, and at the very least brought anti-Christian rhetoric onto the mainstream of the peoples’ lives.

I recently read that there is a movement forming, with supposedly genuine support, to attempt to change the Congressional Oath of Office to include the repudiation of Christianity in their deliberations. I feel this is more than a fringe activity and shouldn’t be ignored. Any thoughts?

Judges tell us what religion is or isn’t. Government enforces racism over inalienable rights. Judges control the right of life. Government restricts the freedom of speech and the right to bear arms. Did you predict any of this?

C.S. Lewis: “Aim at the heavens and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.” Which sounds best?

The United States Court of Appeals Seventh Circuit, Aug. 19, 2005, in a decision on atheism included, “we have already indicated that atheism may be considered, in this specialized sense, a religion.” Is atheism a religion?

Does continuing to alter religion, in effect, cheapen it? Does it matter?