A Slow and Taxing View of Neo-Paganism & the Return to a Christless Europe

Rating: 4/10 (25 April 2020)

Just finished watching a movie called "Midsommar". It was slow, took forever to resolve, and was disturbingly pagan. I haven't decided if it glorifies paganism (as the end seems to imply) or if it is a metaphor of the loss of the power of Christianity in Europe and the return to it's immoral Christless and pagan past (which its disturbing nature and symbolism seemed to).
Whichever it was, the entire movie long I was struck by Romans 1 which talks about how God's judgment is just on those who have not known the Creator but rather became fools and worshiped the creation. The thought of what it must have been like to be a priest 1000 years ago bringing the light of the gospel to such villages is fascinating. Let us remember that such individuals brought Christianity to Europe and saved it out of such a culture.
Lasty, the movie struck me that, not only would God be entirely just in striking such people down for the evil they do, but that such people don't deserve a warning of death let alone the giving of His only Son for a mere chance that one might repent - but that is exactly what God did . The true weight of God's patience toward sinners became uncomprehendingly great watching this train-wreck play out.
That aside. I wouldn't recommend this movie unless you are somehow intellectually and prayerfully involved in better understanding the resurgence of paganism taking place in the world today. Let me make it quite clear that this is a picture of the world from which Christianity (Christ Himself) called humanity out and thus it took quite an emotional toll to sit through. I wouldn't call it entertainment but rather a stark picture of a Christless Europe.