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Pagan Threat to America
Pastor Lucas Miles highlights rise of demonic influences — and calls for bold spiritual counteroffensive.
Pagan Threat: Confronting America’s Godless Uprising By Pastor Lucas Miles Humanix Books 256 pages, $27.99
W BY MARISA HERMAN
hile wokeism has seeped into nearly every facet of society — including politics, eco-
nomics, and religion — Pastor Lucas Miles believes Christianity’s founda- tional morals have provided critical guardrails to protect against an entire Marxist ideological takeover. For years, Miles watched Marxism
“attach itself like a parasite” to Chris- tianity, an infiltration he explored in his books Woke Jesus and The Chris- tian Left. At their core, he argues, Christi-
anity and progressive ideology are “mutually exclusive,” with the pro- gressive worldview fundamentally misaligned with Christian values. He contends that disconnect ultimately makes Christianity “a really bad vehi- cle for Marxism.”
Now, he fears that wokeism has
found a new host in a centuries-old practice that many considered to be dead or at least dormant: paganism. In his latest book, Pagan Threat: Confronting America’s Godless Upris- ing, Miles chronicles the modern revival of pagan practices and their growing appeal among America’s youth that is challenging Western society.
Through a historical lens, the book
outlines paganism’s resurgence and its cultural implications, and pro- vides a road map for how Christians can respond. Practices that were “virtually for-
gotten” are now being rebranded and shared as viral social media trends. Today, an estimated 1.5 million Americans practice paganism — a number projected to triple by 2050. While still a minority, Miles warns the influence is outsized. “Right now, the church and the
Western world is not ready to know how to deal with this yet,” he said. “We have not developed an apolo-
getic or argument against this new framework because we really haven’t taken the time to identify what’s hap- pening well enough to see that it’s coming — all the while our young peo- ple are being impacted by it.” Unlike Christianity, he points out
that paganism lacks authoritative texts with moral boundaries on issues like abortion or marriage, making it a flex- ible vessel for progressive ideology.
As a pastor who regularly goes live on Instagram and TikTok to discuss faith, Miles recently took his message to the Las Vegas Strip, asking people walking by to talk about their beliefs on camera.
48 NEWSMAX | SEPTEMBER 2025 Miles describes the paganism of
today as a practice that vastly differs from the one depicted in textbooks 800 years ago. The beliefs are a blend of “sexual
identity, Marxist ideology, and an anti- Christian spirituality” that are attrac- tive to a young, female population and are creeping into societal foundations like geopolitics and religion. As young men are becoming more conservative than their baby boomer parents, Miles said younger women are becoming “more progressive,” and those liberal views align with pagan ideologies. “TikTok live has been a major high-
way for a lot of this to get to people,” he said. He recently saw a “golf witch” on Instagram who seductively promis- es men she will improve their score on the course if they pay her to cast a spell. With this new wave of paganism challenging and twisting Christian viewpoints on sexuality, marriage, and abortion, he is concerned that the Western world is not prepared to deal with the ramifications. In response, his new book acts as
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