Paganism as a Preliminary

…I sometimes wonder whether we shall not have to re-convert men to real Paganism as a preliminary to converting them to Christianity. If they were Stoics, Orphics, Mithraists, or (better still) peasants worshipping the Earth, our task might be easier. That is why I do not regard contemporary Paganisms (Theosophy, Anthroposophy, etc.) as a wholly bad symptom.

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“Modern Man and his Categories of Thought,” in Walter Hooper ed., Present Concerns (San Diego: Harcourt Inc., 1986), 66.