A New Primitivism (Veith)
August 25th, 2005 | Published in Quotes, Culture, Technology, Religion
The New Age movement is simply the paganism of the Old Age. Such primitive and oppressive superstitions squelched human progress for millennia. Ironically, our advanced technology is resulting in a new primitivism, in which the gains of thousands of years of civilization are glibly rejected by a post-literate culture that closely resembles pre-literate ones. Even infanticide, a commonplace practice of pagan societies, has become socially acceptable in the form of abortion on demand. As Scripture warns, graven images can lead to paganism of the most horrific kind.
—Gene Edward Veith, Jr. Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature (1990), pp. 22-3