Who are her apostles?
What kind of “gospel” do they preach? Goddess religion rose in our society like seawater seeping into a leaky ship, so quietly that few dancers in the salon noticed what was happening until the vessel began to list. Twenty years ago, parents recoiled in anger from any suggestion that neo-pagan witchcraft might be invading their children’s campuses. Today, it is lapping at our chins, and no one seems embarrassed to float out of the broom closet any more. Assisted by an unlikely swarm of allies some of them nominally Catholic the Goddess movement is swimming boldly toward its blasphemous goal. Contemporary Goddess religion is an unstable compound of neo-pagan practices drawn from dubious sources: it combines appropriations from established religions with Masonic rituals, primitive drumming and bonfire dancing, elements from Theosophy, Santeria, occultism and voodoo, ancient mythology, literary fantasy, even comic inventions. (One Dallas group calls itself the “HotTub Mystery Religion” an
