Welcome to Breakpoint, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

unchanging truth.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street.

Human beings, John Calvin said, are incurably religious creatures.

Left or own device will start worshiping something or someone, whether or not that means

dabbling in the supernatural and calling on spirits wholly or otherwise.

This is true even for those who don't take the supernatural seriously.

Such people might assume that they're dabbling as harmless or artistically edgy, but they

could not be more dangerously mistaken.

Writing earlier this month in the New York Times, Ross Dalfit commented on the growing

interest in astrology, manifesting videos on TikTok and spiritual exploration with psychedelic

drugs.

These things, he argues, are signs that are supposedly secular culture is in the midst of a spiritual

awakening, one that involves the wrong types of spirits.

Unrestrained by an etiology or organized faith, people eager for transcendence or opening

doors, without ever really considering what might walk through them.

For example, Dalfit notes the golden statue of a woman-like creature recently placed

on top of the New York City courthouse.

The bizarre figure features hair braided into horns, arms reminiscent of tentacles, and

a lace collar, an apparent homage to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

It's an unsettling mashup of Earth Goddess abortion politics and classic game and imagery,

and that embodies our society's experimental spirituality.

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