The return of an 86 year-old thesis about paganism

When Wolpe says “pagan”, he’s talking about the boogeyman of transcendental monotheism. He’s using the term in the same way that a lot of Catholic writers use the term. See for example Ross Douthat’s 2018 editorial in the New York Times (also published at Christmastime), similarly titled <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/12/opinion/christianity-paganism-america.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">“The Return of Paganism”</a>. ( <a href="https://naturalisticpaganism.org/2019/01/10/the-return-of-paganism/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">My response to that editorial is here.</a>) Right off the bat, Wolpe’s article begins by calling Trump “pagan”. Now, he’s obviously not saying that Trump belongs to the religion of self-identified Pagans. Rather, when he says “pagan” here, he clearly states that he’s talking about “wealth worship” and the “ideological imperialism of the ego”. <a href="https://anotherendispossible.medium.com/the-return-of-an-86-year-old-thesis-about-paganism-b6b52ed16533">Website</a>