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By Nathaniel Lamansky, Crisis Magazine, Dec. 18, 2023

Nathaniel Lamansky graduated from Franciscan University of Steubenville with a B.A. in Humanities and Catholic Culture. He currently resides in Montana.

 

The mutability of human nature broadly, and of gender in particular, is the Trojan Horse by which paganism has achieved its modern renaissance.

One may be tempted to believe that paganism is dead and buried in the ruins of Rome and the forests of Germany. However, paganism is, in fact, alive and well in the world today. It has been adapted to modernity, and it has disguised itself under new names and ideas. The mutability of human nature broadly, and of gender in particular, is the Trojan Horse by which paganism has achieved its modern renaissance. It is crucial that we, as the Faithful, understand this phenomenon so as to help bring others to Christ and to make headway against the collapse of Christian civilization. ….

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