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POV, resetting your body count to zero through rituals. >> Modern dating is a humiliation ritual. You either become dual income, no kids, or a cat breeder. Either way, you watch your bloodline die out. But we're beginning to realize that none of this was an accident. Just look at the fastest growing religions today. Among men, it's orthodoxy rooted in tradition, self-sacrifice, traditional understandings of men and women. But among women, it's witchcraft, goddess worship, and new age spirituality rooted in astrology, crystals, and worship of the divine feminine. But historically, this is not random. It's a clear indicator of a much deeper crisis. When civilizations are on the brink of collapse, one of the clearest indicators is that they turn back towards fertility cults, goddess figures, and the worship of the divine feminine. So, when you see modern women turning to witch talk, divine feminine spirituality, pop star goddess worship, and antiatalist ideology. You are not just looking at a dating crisis. You were watching history repeat itself. The truth is over the last h 100red years men and women have been part of a social engineering experiment that's been forming them in two completely separate and incompatible ways. But once we take a look at the data, the institutions and the history of how witchcraft became the fastest growing female religion, the gender divide, birth rate crisis, and real story of feminism start to make more sense. And this is why. The uncomfortable truth that nobody wants to say out loud is that women are being used as vehicles for social engineering. That's why it simply doesn't work to tell men to just man up and get fit and focus on self-improvement. >> Go swipe right. If your outcome is this, go learn how to DM. Go improve your DM game. Go improve how to message better. Go improve what emojis to send. >> Because if it's truly the fault of our modern generation of men, then why were all the institutions and NOS's dumping billions into targeting women for the last 100 years? All you have to do is look at the data. >> Do you believe in sin? >> I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world. We've all seen the typical statistics that women are much more liberal than men, much more educated than men, and men and women increasingly don't like each other, and therefore are having kids. But the part nobody's talking about is that this is all just a symptom of a much deeper problem. Because amid this so-called progress of our modern society, the birth rates are collapsing at tremendous rates. The US total fertility rate hit a record low of around 1.6 births per woman in recent years, well below the 2.1 per woman replacement level. The dark truth is is that men and women no longer live in the same moral universe or have the same conception of right and wrong. But why is this happening? Because morality has to be grounded in a worldview. So what exactly do women believe? Analysts are documenting that religion is on the rise in America. You might have seen all the videos saying that there's a massive religion resurgence, but not the ones that you might think. The fastest growing religious trends among men include Christian Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, with reports of a 78% surge in converts to Orthodoxy with 20,000 people being baptized newly this year into the Orthodox Church where for about every two men who enter Orthodoxy, only about one woman converts. So that's all fine and dandy, but where is all the female spiritual enthusiasm going? Because while many men are moving towards orthodoxy, tradition, hierarchy, sacrifice, and repentance, many women are actually moving in the opposite direction. For women, the fastest growing spiritual currents are wikah, witchcraft, new age spirituality, astrology, goddess worship, and religious disaffiliation. These are not neutral trends. They are female- centered, anti-atriarchical, and built around the divine feminine, personal autonomy, emotional healing, and manifesting spiritual power. And we're going to get into what these movements actually believe here in a bit because it gets much darker than just crystals and horoscopes. But the part nobody is telling you. Not the manosphere, not the so-called right-wing Christian influencers, not self-help gurus, is that feminism itself is deeply religious. It has dogma. It has saints. It has heresies, rituals, and sacred victims and forbidden questions that you're not allowed to ask. And at the center of it all is one core belief. Patriarchy must be destroyed. >> Tonight, I'm playing Ashniko Femdong. And it's a little bit of a power play. There two men holding my hair down with the patriarchy. That's That's the message. >> I was out here hating men before it became a thing, but my real muse was David Bowie. He embodied male and female spirit and that suited me just fine. >> I believe in manifesting. I believe in all of that magic of life and that that keeps me excited. >> Can you do a tarot card reading for me? >> Oh my god, I wish I brought them. >> Yeah. What is that? What are you just walking around set looking to do reading >> every day? No, no, they come to me. >> Oh, interesting. >> They come to me. >> So, I like wearing body parts as jewelry. So, I thought I wanted to wear my fans because I love my fans more than anything in the world, >> right? >> So, I thought they could send me their teeth and then I made a headdress out of them and I'm I'm like a thousand. So, now I'm making a bra. >> You said I have to ask you this. You're telling me out of time that you've slept with a ghost? I have to ask you, have you slept with a ghost? >> I did. Go to the bone zone with a ghost. >> Goddess worship. Modern pop stars are not just selling music anymore. They are selling archetypes. They are selling spiritual identities. Let's start with Beyonce. Beyonce is not simply marketed as a singer. She is quote unquote queen bee. Her imagery constantly leans into royalty, fertility, divine femininity, African goddess symbolism and mass devotion. In Lemonade, she appears in imagery associated with ocean, the goddess of beauty, sensuality, fertility, and water >> is a form of worship. In the song Church Girl, she fuses church language with sexual liberation language, as if the sacred space itself has become repurposed into a celebration of autonomy. And the most diabolical of all, she recites, >> "I saw the devil. I grew thickened skin on my feet. I bathed in bleach and plugged my minces with pages from the holy book." >> Yes, she means she used sacred scripture as a tampon. But it gets more explicit. Ariana Grande has openly embraced witchcraft in the oult. literally releases a song called quote unquote God is a Woman. And in the music video, she is not just singing about empowerment, but she is placed at the center of the cosmos. She is surrounded by a choir. She reimagines religious art, even placing herself in the position of God the creator in a recreation of Michelangelo's creation of Adam, which completely inverts the script because, as we all know, Eve came from Adam's rib. And when she performed it at the VA, the stage looked like a feminist Last Supper. Now, this stuff is not subtle, but then it gets a lot darker. Lady Gaga was one of the major bridges between the older blasphemous pop and the new ritualistic female celebrity cult. In Judas, she takes the imagery of Christ, Judas, and Mary Magdalene and turns it into pop psychology, betrayal, desire, and self-expression. In Alejandro, Catholic coded imagery, rosaries, religious costumes, eroticism, and militarized choreography all collapse into one performance. With Gaga, pop becomes ritual, fame becomes religion, and the stage becomes an altar. And in recent times, record labels are trying to make this seem cute. Sabrina Carpenter, she takes sacrilege and turns into a joke. Her feather music was filmed inside a Catholic church with coffins, death, veils, alter imagery, and men dying around her in stylized revenge comedy. When people were outraged, her response was basically quote unquote Jesus was a carpenter. Then in taste, horror references, blood, revenge, obsession, even voodoo doll imagery. But then the altar turns openly satanic. The most striking example is the recent new artist Sophia Zella, whose music and performance embodies this new goddess archetype beyond blatantly. A rapid emergence out of seemingly nowhere drips with female empowerment laced with man-hate and toxic rhetoric. Live, her concerts resemble religious services. Young girls worship her on stage. screaming lyrics in trance-like devotion, treating her as a high priestess of feminine rage. This is goddess worship in real time. Tracks like quote, "Everybody supports women," promote these deeply entrenched feminist ideas as if they're just widely accepted by everybody and we all ought to believe them. Quote, "Everybody supports women until a woman is doing better than you." Her EP, quote, I can be your mother, features songs that blur maternal roles with dominance and seduction and have obvious goddess worship implications, twists nurturing control into, quote, I can be your mother, I can be your dad, I can be anything but you, a demonic, genderless delusion. In one video, she tempts men with fruit in a clear reenactment of Eve offering the forbidden apple to Adam in the garden, positioning women as seductive disruptors of order, rituals of affirmation where traditional faith is replaced by secular idolatry of the empowered woman. And later in the video, we'll explore how she's actually taking on an ancient Hindu goddess archetype. Now, when we go into the philosophy and the people who pushed this idea into American mainstream, we will see that this was actually their goal. What's really going on? But before we get into that, I just want to quickly remind you all that Lungs of Faith is a one-man operation. It's just me. Videos like this take a huge amount of time to research, write, record, and edit. So, if this channel has helped you think more deeply about these issues, and you want to support my work, you can donate over at buymeacop.com/longsofa or through the PayPal link below. And if you want to go further, supporters at $50 a month plus are labeled producers of the channel at the end of all my videos and get direct input on future topics. Back to the plot. This is where Witch Talk comes in. And what shocked me is how this isn't just a meme. This stuff is literally civilizational. It's so popular. It's in the hands of all of our young women. And it's honestly terrifying. It counts with hundreds of thousands of millions of followers dedicated to blatant and overt witchcraft. Teaching young women how to cast spells, manifest, and contact the demonic. Now, one of the biggest niches and ways this works into the popular consciousness is through dating advice and teaching women to cast spells on their boyfriends and future lovers without them knowing. Check it out. >> If you came across this video, it's so you need to learn how to control that man and make him submit to your will. >> I cast a spell on my boyfriend. >> The amount of time that you're hoping and wondering and fantasizing about him breaking no contact, girl, it's been over a week. Do witchcraft ON HIM ALREADY. WHEN THEY ASK HOW I GET MY MAN TO listen and do whatever I say, controlling love spell. >> Now to all of the girl dads and the white knights, wake up. This is the reality. This could be your own daughter because it's in every corner of the female internet from entrepreneurship advice, being littered with manifestation and seances to makeup tutorials caked in with spells. >> I created my dream life using witchcraft. I am now financially free. I built a successful art business from scratch. And I live in my dream apartment. And I'm going to tell you how I did it. I always make sure to keep three spells in my home at all times. And that is a luck and abundance spell, a protection spell, and a transmutation spell. I do make all of these myself with ingredients from a metaphysical or grocery store. And I hand select every ingredient because I want to really resonate and align with everything that goes into the spell. And I do think that is the key to making a powerful spell. Now, I'm going to give you a very, very powerful business spell to cap. It is actually my personal one that I use myself. This spell is the reason why I have such high quality clients throw their money at me, who are loyal, who don't waste no time, all of the check boxes. >> Because with enchantments, sometimes it really is easy as taking the cologne, maybe matching herb if you want to bathe in that. Take a cologne, your beauty sigil, put it underneath it, and spray your cologne. Bewitched. >> Welcome to Glamour Magic 101. >> Okay, goddesses, let's talk about strawberry magic. So, strawberries are really, really great for seduction. >> I think this one ate the strawberries before she even got to the spell. The content that dominates online typically reveals what people are actually hungry for. And right now, a massive amount of popular women's content is astrology, witchcraft, divine feminine energy, manipulation, therapy speak, anti-Mhood empowerment. Meanwhile, men's content is obsessed with success, lifting, discipline, money, and self-improvement, which don't get me wrong, all have their serious problems. But pretending that men are equally in as bad of a state as women is just completely delusional. Men are being told to become stronger. Women are being told they are goddesses. Those are not the same problem. An increasingly popular trend among young women is using their menstrual blood and rituals. >> Think carefully about who you're doing this for because you won't be able to distance yourself from that person ever again. Take a sanitary pad and make a hole in it. Through this hole, insert a photo of the person you wish to have in your life. If you are on your period, it is much more effective. >> And then it moves into relationships. >> I remember when I did a love spell on my boyfriend because he was treating me bad and I wanted him to act differently. It worked. And the worst part is is that even though they may be communicating with the demonic, getting insights from the enemy, much of the time they don't even see this as being witchcraft, but simply see this as something harmless that just works. >> Okay, ready? We listen and we don't judge. In 2022, me and my boyfriend broke up in August and I pretty much spent 9 months wishing that we would get back together and trying to find a way to get back together with him. And I was in my delusional era. I was on TikTok on the tarot tarot card girls that like tell you that your ex is getting back to you. Yeah. So that was all my for you page and I saw this video of this girl doing this love spell and I think she was a witch but I don't know and I was in a time of desperation and I did the love spell and within 2 days he was texting me and calling me and then within a week we were hanging out and now we've been back together for over a year and a half almost 2 years and I am convinced that the love spell actually worked and I have kept it because I am afraid to throw it away because if I throw it away what if he breaks up we break up. And this man now worships the ground I walk on. Like it's a completely different relationship than we were together before. And he would literally take a bullet from me. And it is the most healthy and best relationship I have ever had. And I swear that those rich girls, they just know something that we don't because I never believed it and I believe we listen and we don't judge. >> But this just speaks to the grand delusion of the masses today and the lack of proper orthodox Christian spiritual formation regarding the demonic. But once we get to the true history of feminism and the oult and what they're trying to accomplish, it soers you up very quickly. But how did this happen? How did witchcraft go from something whispered about in the shadows, actively condemned and discouraged in society to something your average suburban girl finds between skincare tutorials, and dating advice? How did astrology, spell jars, blood rituals, goddess worship, and manipulation magic become normal enough to be packaged as quote unquote healing? Well, this is where the story gets much bigger and points to a much more serious indicator of the state of our society. Because historically, when civilizations begin to collapse, they without fail turn back towards fertility cults, goddess figures, mystery religion, magic, and the divine feminine. And you see this in the late Roman world with the spread of mystery cults like Isis and Sibel. You see this in collapsing pagan societies where fertility, sexuality, and sacred feminine power become spiritual substitutes for a dying civic order. When a society loses God the father, it starts looking for God the mother. One of the most important figures in the rise of modern oult spirituality was Helena Petroa Bllovzki. Born in the Russian Empire in 1831, Bllovzki became the central founder of something called the Theosophical Society in 1875, a movement that claimed to recover an ancient hidden wisdom beneath all world religions. Theosophy did not present Christianity as the final revelation of God. It treated Christianity as but one fragment of a much larger esoteric system alongside Hinduism, Buddhism, reincarnation, spiritual evolution, hidden masters, oult powers, and secret knowledge. The society's goals were openly institutional to form a quote universal brotherhood of humanity to encourage comparative religion, philosophy, and science, and to investigate the quote unexplained laws of nature and quote powers latent in humanity. In other words, Bolvadsky was not just selling private witchcraft. She was helping build a new spiritual framework for the modern world, one that could ultimately be synthesized into a single point of control, placing itself figuratively above all formal organized religion, which made it attractive to wealthy institutions and hedgeimonies that wanted to consolidate their power. And this is where ties between feminism, goddess worship, and institutions funding the stuff like the Rockefellers become impossible to ignore. As we will continue to see, Bulvatsk's first major work was literally called Isis Unveiled, attempting to present the goddess Isis as a symbol of hidden wisdom beneath the surface of ordinary religion, casting the narrative that patriarchy must be defeated and replaced with the matriarchy, using Isis as a very useful symbol or Trojan horse into achieving that end. Later, feminist occult writers also turned ISIS into a model of sacred feminine power. Hence the obscene amounts of imagery relating to ISIS in today's popular entertainment landscape. Historian Joy Dixon in Divine Feminine, Theosophy and Feminism in England argues that Theosophy and its pantheon of goddesses became deeply deeply connected to feminist political culture. Theosophists claim that women and quote the East possessed spiritual forces that western men had lost through materialism, empire, and rationalism. That is basically an early form of what we now call quote the divine feminine. This was not yet witch talk but it was the seedbed and it planted itself at the heart of the first wave feminist suffragist movement. A perfect example that we need to understand after Blovadsky is Annie Bassant. Now it's common online to hear from men and women and even self-professed Christians that oh well first wave feminism was good but you know things got out of control with second and thirdwave feminism. >> Feminists look the status quo feminists asked for it. You're going to get equality. You ask for equality. >> That wasn't original feminism though. >> No. Well, feminism has always been a man-hating ideology, but that's another conversation that >> conversation. >> And so, my position would be we should give feminism credit for the good things that is done to improve women's dignity throughout the course of history, including what first wave and even some second and third wave feminists. >> I think from the beginning, feminists have always been concerned with this core question. What does it mean to be just to women as women? >> But that couldn't be further from the historical truth. Basant was not some obscure mystic. She was a major public intellectual, a secularist, a socialist, feminist, birth control activist, theosophist, Freemason, and even eventually the first female president of the Indian National Congress in 1917. And she's important because she brought together the ideas that most people today imagine are separate. feminism, socialism, contraception, anti-Christian radicalism, oult spirituality, and political revolution. When birth control is brought up, we automatically think of the 1960s, but people don't realize just how much further back this actually goes. In 1877, Bant and Charles Bradlaw republished Charles Nolton's birth control pamphlet called Fruits of Philosophy, which was once long buried underground as way too insane and controversial. they were prosecuted for. But it still served as a major victory for the feminists and oultists because the trial turned birth control into a national public dialogue and issue that was no longer fringe. Afterwards, they helped found something called the Malthusian League which promoted contraception to limit family size. Malfusianism comes from Thomas Malthus who argued that population growth could outstrip food and resources producing poverty and social crisis. Now, this was based on very faulty data and terrible premises, but regardless, this narrative made its way into society and still continues today. And ultimately, the solution became population control. Oddly politically convenient. Now, Basan herself didn't associate herself with the term quote antiatalist, but she helped normalize one of its deepest assumptions that children are no longer the natural fruit of marriage and sexuality, but they become optional, delayed, managed, prevented, and controlled. And this is why Band becomes so important. She shows us how feminism was advanced not only through politics but through the oult. In Victorian society, mainstream science, religion, and public authority were overwhelmingly male-dominated. But theosophy gave women a way to bypass those structures entirely. Instead of appealing to the church, the academy, or the family, women could claim authority through the institution, clairvoyance, mystical sensitivity, reincarnation, and hidden spiritual knowledge. Very similar to how women today just say, "Oh, I'm following God's will." Oh, how how do you know that? Oh, God told me, you know, I I had a dream. I had a vision. >> Healing you right now. Thank you, Jesus. I detach you from all of that that you renounce. Now, I break every word curse spoken over you and over your identity. >> I'm just following my female intuition. And practically speaking, this is how first feminism worked. It recommended and promoted women to leave the home so that they could become part of institutions outside of the family. So that through the women they could be used to control the inside of the family which is the patriarchy. >> Why did I take a defense job? That's a funny question. I never thought of that before. Do you have to have a reason? We're in a jam, aren't we? I'm sorry, but you have to excuse me. I'm too busy to answer questions like that. >> In other words, the very traits often associated with femininity were rebranded as higher forms of knowing. This is the part people conveniently ignore when they romanticize first-wave feminism. Its roots were not only voting rights and legal reform. The first wave was explicitly oult, anti-atriarchical, anti-Christian, and revolutionary from the very beginning. Wikah. No, not not Wigaha. Although we are real Wiggas out here. Wikah with two C's. You've probably heard about it online, but most people don't really understand what it is. The topic has long been going viral, especially as it's been rising to becoming the most popular religion among women today. >> Wikah is one of the most popular branches of paganism and there are so many different traditions. But what exactly is it and where did it come from? Before we get to answering that hot question, we need to touch on Alistister Crowley, who was the so-called spiritual father of the inventor of Wikah. Crowley was a British oultist, ceremonial magician, and founder of The LMA, the modern oult religion built around the famous satanic command, quote, "do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." He called himself quote the beast 666 practiced what he called quote magic and placed enormous emphasis on will sexual rituals and spiritual self-divization. This matters because Crowley represented a shift from religion as obedience towards God towards spirituality is the expression of sovereign self that is the bridge to the modern world that was the vehicle that was actually used to make these abstract philosophies flourish into the mainstream. Sex becomes magical technique. The body becomes a ritual instrument. then will become sacred. And you see it all over Barnes & Noble bookstores where essentially all of a sudden now they're giant metaphysical witchcraft bookstores. But this did not stay isolated. Crowley's ideas influenced the world of modern oultism, especially through the ordomply orientist. Most importantly for this story, scholars have specifically connected Crowley to the early development of Wikah because the modern witchcraft revival did not simply descend untouched from ancient village paganism. And that brings us to the man who would package that oult stream into modern religion for the post-Christian West. Gerald Gardner, the central figure behind the invention of Wickah. >> Working within the team, we can produce results. >> But can you give me any example of these results that you claim? >> Well, here I've got is a waxy image was made 11 months ago, last November precisely. A man was doing a very clever bit of blackmail attempting to get some property because we can't fight against him. He's too strong. And a man wouldn't. He said it cost him £3,000. He wouldn't give it up. So he went to a wish. So she bound him up so he couldn't move in the matter and pinned his lips together so he couldn't speak in the matter and two days after his his lawyers wrote to him and said our client's been in and insist on announcing all claims and insists on signing documents to that effect and was sentenced to as soon as they were stamped. >> Gardner claimed that witchcraft was not merely superstition but the survival of an ancient pre-Christian religion. In witchcraft today he presented witches as initiates of a quote an old and probably stone age religion preserving ancient knowledge through covens circles and goddess centered worship. But this is where the story gets important because Wickah presents itself as ancient but scholars generally describe it as a modern reconstruction modern invention. It was systematized in the 20th century through Gardner drawing from folklore ritual magic western esotericism the discredited witch cult theory and reconstructed pagan material. And Oxford's work on Crowley and Wikah notes that Gardner drew heavily on Crowley's work in the early stages of Wikah even if that influence later sort of got buried under the sand. And that is why it fit the post-Christian West so perfectly. Wikah gave modern people the feeling of ancient religion without the authority of the church, ritual without obedience, nature without creation, sexuality without procreation, goddess worship and unrestrained sexuality and slavery to the passions and spiritual power without repentance. But the 1960s are where this stops being an elite oult world and becomes mass youth culture. Before this you had blobotssky, Theosophy Crowley, ceremonial magic and gardener systematizing modern wickah. But in the 1960s, those older streams exploded into the mainstream through music, drugs, sexuality, psychology, Eastern religion, and rebellion. The counterculture rejected almost every inherited institution, the church, the family, sexual morality, patriotism, hierarchy, and traditional authority. But this wasn't accidental. It replaced Christianity with personal spiritual experience. Young people turned to psychedelics, yoga, meditation, Hinduism, Buddhism, astrology, oultism, wikah, commune, free love, and the language of quote expanded consciousness. Figures like Timothy Liry and Richard Albert at Harvard helped popularize psychedelic experimentation. Albert later became Ramdas, one of the major bridges between psychedelics and eastern spirituality. The Beatles helped make Indian religion and transcendental meditation fashionable. Alan Watts brought Zen and Eastern mysticism into the American imagination. Why do we have to put ourselves in boxes? Why is everything constructed in rectangles? The world is not rectangular. >> And the Eslin Institute in California became one of the nerve centers of the human potential movement. A place where psychology, Eastern religion, sexuality, and counter groups, mysticism, and self-realization all blended together and stemmed out of. And then there's the CIA. At the same time this youth spirituality was exploding, the CIA was secretly running MK Ultra, a covert mind control and chemical interrogation program involving LSD and other drugs. And many modern scholars will agree the oult and witchcraft heavily influenced by Alistister Crowley. Congressional investigations later revealed that the CIA funded and conducted experiments, sometimes on unwitting subjects in an effort to study behavior, control, interrogation, and psychological manipulation. Do as thou wilt, and let that be the letter of the law. This is where the CIA question becomes impossible to ignore because one of the most famous faces of second-wave feminism, Gloria Steinum, had a documented relationship with the CIA before she became a feminist icon. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Steinum worked with the so-called independent research service, an organization used to send American students to communist youth festivals in Europe as a part of a cold war anti-communist strategy. The New Yorker summarizes the point bluntly. Steinum was in charge, knew where the money was coming from, and later said, quote, "If I had a choice, I would do it again." This isn't ancient history. It's context. The 1960s didn't just happen. Psychedelics, Eastern spirituality, free love, oult revival, radical student politics, and second-wave feminism all detonated at the same time and at the same moment. And at the core of nearly all of them was a shared mission, the subversion of Christian patriarchy. This brings us to the goddess imagery. that's impossible to dismiss. When Secondwave feminism finally got its flagship mass media platform, Miss Magazine, which was co-founded by Gloria Steinum and the CIA, what symbol did they choose for their very first issue? Callie, a modern, pregnant, multi-armed Callie, crying, juggling housework, career, beauty standards, child care, and domestic labor all at once. The message was clear. The modern woman is crushed by impossible demands and awakening to her primal power. But the choice of symbol wasn't neutral. Cali had been embraced by feminists for decades precisely because she's the ultimate icon of anti-atriarchy. Let's be clear about what she actually represents. She stands triumphantly over the corpse and on the chest of her husband, the god Shiva, dominance over men. She is untamed, ferocious, and completely beyond societal control or shame. She's the goddess of creation through destruction. She doesn't reform. She annihilates the patriarchy to clear the ground for something new. Sound familiar? This isn't ancient mythology being innocently reclaimed. It's a deliberate invocation of a deity whose entire archetype is the violent overthrow of patriarchy, hierarchy, and masculine authority. But the question remains, why did these movements capitalize so heavily on Eastern mysticism, goddess imagery, and transcendental spirituality? Because the truth is they offered people spirituality without requiring them to submit to a Christian worldview. Christianity comes with patriarchical created order. God the father, Christ, the church, the family, fatherhood, motherhood, chastity, repentance, hierarchy, and moral obligation. Most importantly, unlike any other religion that claims to be monotheistic, such as Islam, Christianity calls God father in the truest sense that he has a son. Christianity is fundamentally ordered around patriarchy. But new age spirituality could give people the feeling of religion without those commitments. People could still have the mystical experiences even though they're demonic. Rituals, meditation, psychedelics, energy, spirit guides, and the language of transcendence, but without actually being bound to the Christian patriarchy, sexual morality, or the authority of the church. That made it useful. Once spirituality was detached from Christianity, it became much easier to replace God the Father with the divine feminine, replace repentance with self-expression, and replace created sexual order with personal autonomy. And once the feminine became sacred in this new system, women could be recast as spiritual authorities, sexual liberators, and symbols of rebellion against the old order. The logic was simple. Change the spiritual imagination of women, you change the direction of society. At this point, we have to ask the obvious question. Is any of this actually real? Is witchcraft real? Are demons real? Are these goddesses real? or are they just symbols and archetypes that people use because they're philosophically and psychologically useful and powerful? And the Christian answer is yes, they are real, but not always in the cartoon way that people imagine. There is only one God. But scripture is also very clear that behind false worship, there are real spiritual powers. Think of a concert. Thousands of people gather in one place, sing the same words, move to the same rhythm, cry at the same moments, worship the same figure, and participate in the same emotional atmosphere. That is not nothing. That is a real metaphysical reality. As our beloved father Sarapim Rose talks about in his prophetic book, Orthodoxy and the religion of the future. You will either participate in the spirit of truth, the Holy Spirit, the unccreated grace of God through worship, repentance, fasting, prayer, and confession in the life of the church. Or you will participate in the spirit of the age, resentment, lust, autonomy, rebellion, power manipulation, and self- worship. And how do we know this is real? Look at the fruit. Antiatalism, the rejection of birth itself. >> Do you believe in sin? >> I think the greatest sin in the world is bringing children into the world. >> It becomes celebrated. It becomes content. It becomes testimony. It becomes a political sacrament. And they're spending billions of dollars to make sure that from the youngest age, this is what children believe. >> So, you think it's okay depending on the circumstances? >> Yes. >> Why did you have an abortion? >> A few years ago, I got pregnant and I really didn't want to have a baby. He wasn't wearing a condom. >> Why was he wearing a condom? >> Have you ever had two options and one of them like seems easier at the time? >> Oh yeah. Like you could take a shortcut or you could go the long version. >> What did your partner think at the time? >> You know, I think we were both like bummed out that I got pregnant and he was just like supportive of what I wanted to do. >> Were you reckless at the time? >> Um I mean I don't I wouldn't really say that I was being reckless. Women are encouraged to quote shout their abortions, post about them, joke about them, and frame the destruction of their own children as self-empowerment, liberation, and self-love. And once abortion becomes something a society celebrates rather than mourns, antiatalism has fully entered the bloodstream. Stevie Nick said, quote, "If I had not had that abortion, I'm pretty sure there would have been no Fleetwood Mac." What a great tragedy that would have been. Jennifer Grace says, quote, "I wouldn't have had my life. I wouldn't have had the career I had. I wouldn't have had anything." Michelle Williams at the Golden Globe said she would not have been able to live her life, quote, without employing a woman's right to choose. CBS summarized her speeches saying that abortion rights enabled her to be where she was. Chelsea Handler said, quote, I'm grateful that I came to my senses and I was able to get an abortion legally. She also wrote, quote, "Anybody who carefully decides not to become a parent should be applauded." This is what I mean when I say abortion becomes sacramental in the modern world. Stevie Nick says there would be no Fleetwood Mac without abortion. Jennifer Gray says that she would not have had her career. Michelle Williams thanks choice from an award stage. Shout your abortion turns into a topic of public testimony and the god these people worship becomes very clear. The satanic temple literally calls it a religious abortion ritual. But antiatalism doesn't always show up as someone saying I hate babies. Most of the time it sounds much more soft. It sounds like I'm not ready. Kids ruin your life. Pregnancy destroys your body. The world is too evil. Motherhood is unpaid labor. I choose myself. This is how antiatalism becomes normalized. It becomes the assumption underneath dating, education, careers, birth control, abortion, therapy, culture, climate anxiety, and modern feminism. And this is how the devil works. He sells the lie as liberation. And then the trap closes. And all of a sudden, women are too old for kids. They miss the opportunity for motherhood. They give away their virginity like it's worthless. And when they regret it, the devil laughs. And this is why men should really not be laughing at women's collapse. It isn't funny. It's not some sort of a dunk. It's not some great victory when women are bitter, lonely, masculineized, childless, and displaced by the very ideologies they embraced. As the wisdom of Ben Sarak says, "If you have daughters, guard their purity, and do not spoil them or be overly permissive with them." Christianity says, "Woman is most exalted not when she becomes a goddess, but when she becomes holy through theosis, the highest image of womanhood is not the witch, the priestess, the girl boss, the seductress, or the autonomous woman who belongs to no one. It is the theotocos. Mary does not become great by rejecting God's order. She becomes great by receiving it. She does not treat birth as oppression. She receives life as a gift. She does not say my body my choice. She says let it be unto me according to thy word. That is the complete opposite of the modern spirit. The goddess says my life belongs to me. Mary says my life belongs to God. And this is why antiatalism is not just a political opinion. It's a spiritual inversion. Because once a society rejects God the father, motherhood stops being seen as participation in life and becomes a threat to the self. And that's the truth that's underlying our current dating crisis, the birthright crisis, and society's inability to reproduce. And I firmly believe only the Orthodox Church has the grounds and the capabilities to do that. What makes the Orthodox Church stand apart from the rest is that it's fundamentally not a rebellion or a reaction to something. It's not a political ideology. It's not a set of propositions. It's not being based. It is life. life itself. It's a hospital where Christ can redeem all of us from our fallen human weakness and offer us salvation through repentance and through the mysteries of the church. Until next time, this is Lungs of Faith and as always, don't negotiate with terrorists. >> They want to count me out. Next time next time for cover next time, let the giant slumber. They want to keep me down. Oh my.