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Although I have a great deal of sympathy for Paganism myself, the notion of a Pagan revival, one where it sweeps across the West and reestablishes itself as the dominant religious faith, is pure fantasy. It simply cannot happen. If the West is going to drift away from the Abrahamic religions, the most likely candidate to fill that vacuum, at least within the right-wing sphere, is racialist secular nationalism. A Pagan revival, realistically, could only emerge as an outgrowth of that movement, supplying it with a metaphysical and spiritual dimension. Paganism standing on its own two feet as an independent faith, attracting converts on the strength of its own theology, is not something I can imagine taking hold at scale. This became clear to me while I was lurking in Pagan circles on Xitter. There's a telling reason why one of their central objections to Christianity, and to the Abrahamic religions generally, is that these faiths are universalist, that they place God above all else, and above race in particular. The appeal of modern Paganism in these spaces is bound up with identity and blood far more than with the gods themselves, which is exactly why it functions better as the spiritual wing of a nationalist project than as a religion people would embrace for its own sake. So at the very best, a Pagan revival might find a foothold among an elite class of believers, the kind drawn to esoteric and aristocratic ideas. Among the masses, though, it has no real future.