An old pagan saying

"Those whom the gods wish to destroy, they first drive insane."

This was a common world view during pagan Roman times, and it is coming true with a vengeance in modern times. Pagans did not believe in one true good God, the deity, as was revealed to the Israelites. Pagans believed in individual "gods" with human faults and pettiness, quarreling and vengeful, who parceled up the world by human "traits." It seems unbelievably foolish when you read what I just wrote that humans, who by then had invented architecture, geometry, literature, early medicine, animal husbandry and advanced civilizations, could believe that there were supernatural beings who could be distinguished only by what greed or gluttony they were pursuing at the time. Even the goddess of "wisdom" was violent and hung up about her looks. How ignorant could humans be? And yet as people reject the traditional faiths that teach the one God, they increasingly nominate the most hideous of their own qualities to be the "new gods" that they worship. And as each generation becomes more and more convinced in this new age pagan pantheon of modern life, they are driving themselves insane, with painful and violent results.

Shall I list for you the new age gods whose worship is driving you all to violent insanity?

o Overachieving workplace stress
o "Entertainment"
o Pseudo identities on the Internet
o Inflated egos derived from your power of media
o "Hooking up"
o Addictions, all and sundry
o Pornography
o Belief in the hypothetical power of the devil but not in the real power of God
o Broken families
o Children as accessories
o Abortion
o "Real life" "entertainment"
o Making other people look stupid
o Making other people look ugly
o Making yourself look "enlightened"
o Making other people look "un-enlightened"
o Food nazis
o Excessive chemicals in foods
o Caring only about your neighbor's dirty underwear
o Demented attitudes toward human sewage
o Occult activities
o Obsession with the future and end of times

and the greatest of the lesser god new age pantheon of all:

o Stalking


I really despair that you will ever find your way back to sanity and decency. So long as you worship the gods who wish to destroy you, they will, they will indeed, for you have made them and given them the power to drive you insane.