Christians in confusion and post neo pagan America.
What is the confusion?
What is neo pagan?
What is Post neo pagan? The most dangerous of all!
St. Irenaeus warned the Church in the second century A.D. of this here:
The Catholic Creed: Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies - Part 3 | Book V
Chapter XXIV.—Of the constant falsehood of the devil, and of the powers and
governments of the world, which we ought to obey, inasmuch as they are
appointed of God, not of the devil.
1. As therefore the devil lied at the beginning, so did he also in the
end, when he said, “All these are delivered unto me, and to whomsoever
I will I give them.” [4654] For it is not he who has appointed the
kingdoms of this world, but God; for “the heart of the king is in the
hand of God.” [4655] And the Word also says by Solomon, “By me kings do
reign, and princes administer justice. By me chiefs are raised up, and
by me kings rule the earth.” [4656] Paul the apostle also says upon
this same subject: “Be ye subject to all the higher powers; for there
is no power but of God: now those which are have been ordained of God.”
[4657] And again, in reference to them he says, “For he beareth not the
sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, the avenger for wrath to
him who does evil.” [4658] Now, that he spake these words, not in
regard to angelical powers, nor of invisible rulers—as some venture
to expound the passage—but of those of actual human authorities, [he
shows when] he says, “For this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are
God’s ministers, doing service for this very thing.” [4659] This also
the Lord confirmed, when He did not do what He was tempted to by the devil;
but He gave directions that tribute should be paid to
the tax-gatherers for Himself and Peter; [4660] because
“they are the ministers of God, serving for this very thing.”
2. For since man, by departing from God, reached such a pitch of fury
as even to look upon his brother as his enemy, and engaged without fear
in every kind of restless conduct, and murder, and avarice; God imposed
upon mankind the fear of man, as they did not acknowledge the fear of
God, in order that, being subjected to the authority of men, and kept
under restraint by their laws, they might attain to some degree of
justice, and exercise mutual forbearance through dread of the sword
suspended full in their view, as the apostle says: “For he beareth not
the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, the avenger for wrath
upon him who does evil.” And for this reason too, magistrates
themselves, having laws as a clothing of righteousness whenever they
act in a just and legitimate manner, shall not be called in question
for their conduct, nor be liable to punishment. But whatsoever they do
to the subversion of justice, iniquitously, and impiously, and illegally,
and tyrannically, in these things shall they also perish;
for the just judgment of God comes equally upon all, and in no case is defective.
Earthly rule, therefore, has been appointed by God for the
benefit of nations, [4661] and not by the devil, who is never at rest
at all, nay, who does not love to see even nations conducting
themselves after a quiet manner, so that under the fear of human rule,
men may not eat each other up like fishes; but that, by means of the
establishment of laws, they may keep down an excess of wickedness among
the nations. And considered from this point of view, those who exact
tribute from us are “God’s ministers, serving for this very purpose.”
3. As, then, “the powers that be are ordained of God,” it is clear that
the devil lied when he said, “These are delivered unto me; and to
whomsoever I will, I give them.” For by the law of the same Being as
calls men into existence are kings also appointed, adapted for those
men who are at the time placed under their government. Some of these
[rulers] are given for the correction and the benefit of their
subjects, and for the preservation of justice; but others, for the
purposes of fear and punishment and rebuke: others, as [the subjects]
deserve it, are for deception, disgrace, and pride; while the just
judgment of God, as I have observed already, passes equally upon all.
The devil, however, as he is the apostate angel, can only go to this
length, as he did at the beginning, [namely] to deceive and lead astray
the mind of man into disobeying the commandments of God, and gradually
to darken the hearts of those who would endeavour to serve him, to the
forgetting of the true God, but to the adoration of himself as God.
4. Just as if any one, being an apostate, and seizing in a hostile
manner another man’s territory, should harass the inhabitants of it, in
order that he might claim for himself the glory of a king among those
ignorant of his apostasy and robbery; so likewise also the devil, being
one among those angels who are placed over the spirit of the air, as
the Apostle Paul has declared in his Epistle to the Ephesians, [4662]
becoming envious of man, was rendered an apostate from the divine law:
for envy is a thing foreign to God. And as his apostasy was exposed by
man, and man became the [means of] searching out his thoughts (et
examinatio sententiae ejus, homo factus est), he has set himself to
this with greater and greater determination, in opposition to man,
envying his life, and wishing to involve him in his own apostate power.
The Word of God, however, the Maker of all things, conquering him by
means of human nature, and showing him to be an apostate, has, on the
contrary, put him under the power of man. For He says, “Behold, I
confer upon you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions, and
upon all the power of the enemy,” [4663] in order that, as he obtained
dominion over man by apostasy, so again his apostasy might be deprived
of power by means of man turning back again to God.
What is the confusion?
The confusion is a modern babel of tongues, that is to say the confusion of every Gnostic and Talmudic and Ecumenical babbling of heresy and nonsense pretending to be Christian when it is not.
What is neo pagan?
In the 1960's every form of neo pagan nonsense and gnostic pseudo christian nonsense enervated America at every level.
In the 1970's a reaction set in on the Catholic side as Traditionalism and on the Evangelical side as typified by street missions as a grass roots Gospel stressing salvation and charitable works.
What is Post neo pagan? The most dangerous of all!
The reaction mentioned above in the 1970's has been subsumed into a mainstream complacency and not recognizably different from the Gnostic-Neo Pagan-Talmudic/Zionist Militarist Neo Colonial modern Roman empire that is America with its invasions of everybody and everywhere.What is next? If we don't put a stop to it, the Antichrist is next.
St. Irenaeus warned the Church in the second century A.D. of this here:
The Catholic Creed: Saint Irenaeus, Against Heresies - Part 3 | Book V
Chapter XXIV.—Of the constant falsehood of the devil, and of the powers and
governments of the world, which we ought to obey, inasmuch as they are
appointed of God, not of the devil.
1. As therefore the devil lied at the beginning, so did he also in the
end, when he said, “All these are delivered unto me, and to whomsoever
I will I give them.” [4654] For it is not he who has appointed the
kingdoms of this world, but God; for “the heart of the king is in the
hand of God.” [4655] And the Word also says by Solomon, “By me kings do
reign, and princes administer justice. By me chiefs are raised up, and
by me kings rule the earth.” [4656] Paul the apostle also says upon
this same subject: “Be ye subject to all the higher powers; for there
is no power but of God: now those which are have been ordained of God.”
[4657] And again, in reference to them he says, “For he beareth not the
sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, the avenger for wrath to
him who does evil.” [4658] Now, that he spake these words, not in
regard to angelical powers, nor of invisible rulers—as some venture
to expound the passage—but of those of actual human authorities, [he
shows when] he says, “For this cause pay ye tribute also: for they are
God’s ministers, doing service for this very thing.” [4659] This also
the Lord confirmed, when He did not do what He was tempted to by the devil;
but He gave directions that tribute should be paid to
the tax-gatherers for Himself and Peter; [4660] because
“they are the ministers of God, serving for this very thing.”
2. For since man, by departing from God, reached such a pitch of fury
as even to look upon his brother as his enemy, and engaged without fear
in every kind of restless conduct, and murder, and avarice; God imposed
upon mankind the fear of man, as they did not acknowledge the fear of
God, in order that, being subjected to the authority of men, and kept
under restraint by their laws, they might attain to some degree of
justice, and exercise mutual forbearance through dread of the sword
suspended full in their view, as the apostle says: “For he beareth not
the sword in vain; for he is the minister of God, the avenger for wrath
upon him who does evil.” And for this reason too, magistrates
themselves, having laws as a clothing of righteousness whenever they
act in a just and legitimate manner, shall not be called in question
for their conduct, nor be liable to punishment. But whatsoever they do
to the subversion of justice, iniquitously, and impiously, and illegally,
and tyrannically, in these things shall they also perish;
for the just judgment of God comes equally upon all, and in no case is defective.
Earthly rule, therefore, has been appointed by God for the
benefit of nations, [4661] and not by the devil, who is never at rest
at all, nay, who does not love to see even nations conducting
themselves after a quiet manner, so that under the fear of human rule,
men may not eat each other up like fishes; but that, by means of the
establishment of laws, they may keep down an excess of wickedness among
the nations. And considered from this point of view, those who exact
tribute from us are “God’s ministers, serving for this very purpose.”
3. As, then, “the powers that be are ordained of God,” it is clear that
the devil lied when he said, “These are delivered unto me; and to
whomsoever I will, I give them.” For by the law of the same Being as
calls men into existence are kings also appointed, adapted for those
men who are at the time placed under their government. Some of these
[rulers] are given for the correction and the benefit of their
subjects, and for the preservation of justice; but others, for the
purposes of fear and punishment and rebuke: others, as [the subjects]
deserve it, are for deception, disgrace, and pride; while the just
judgment of God, as I have observed already, passes equally upon all.
The devil, however, as he is the apostate angel, can only go to this
length, as he did at the beginning, [namely] to deceive and lead astray
the mind of man into disobeying the commandments of God, and gradually
to darken the hearts of those who would endeavour to serve him, to the
forgetting of the true God, but to the adoration of himself as God.
4. Just as if any one, being an apostate, and seizing in a hostile
manner another man’s territory, should harass the inhabitants of it, in
order that he might claim for himself the glory of a king among those
ignorant of his apostasy and robbery; so likewise also the devil, being
one among those angels who are placed over the spirit of the air, as
the Apostle Paul has declared in his Epistle to the Ephesians, [4662]
becoming envious of man, was rendered an apostate from the divine law:
for envy is a thing foreign to God. And as his apostasy was exposed by
man, and man became the [means of] searching out his thoughts (et
examinatio sententiae ejus, homo factus est), he has set himself to
this with greater and greater determination, in opposition to man,
envying his life, and wishing to involve him in his own apostate power.
The Word of God, however, the Maker of all things, conquering him by
means of human nature, and showing him to be an apostate, has, on the
contrary, put him under the power of man. For He says, “Behold, I
confer upon you the power of treading upon serpents and scorpions, and
upon all the power of the enemy,” [4663] in order that, as he obtained
dominion over man by apostasy, so again his apostasy might be deprived
of power by means of man turning back again to God.
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