[Vlad0]

This is 1/2 true only. The author cherry picks his examples.

Yesterday’s article from the same sourcen was all about how Generation Z is amazingly secular, non religious, and atheist.

I think that’s correct.

The author also doesn’t name any real atheist p philosophers. In the recent past we had “the four horseman of the new atheism” - Dawkins. Sam Harris, Dan Dennett and the late Christopher Hitchrns.

They all explicitly reject and oppose roll- your-own mysticism.

[spirited irish]

Gen Z believe 'something' about where they came from, who and what they are, what is evil, and what will happen to them when they die. With respect to the Christian worldview they are so-called secular atheist, but they hold to some sort of metaphysical worldview nevertheless. It is right there, that they fall into the unseen realm for explanations and this is the occult.

As for the so-called atheist philosophers, they too reject the Christian worldview. However, their own metaphysical worldview is firmly grounded in occult paganism. specifically Atomism:

"The Greek Atomist Epicurus (341-270 BC) is the father of contemporary scientific materialism. The principle tenet of Atomism teaches that the world was not created by any deity, or with any design, but came about by a chance movement of physical atoms of various sizes and magnitude that cemented together and so formed the world.

The world and everything in it were not created but instead the accidental emergent or evolved products of a great cosmic event (exploding Cosmic Egg/Big Bang) that spontaneously generated animated physical matter from nothing. This way of thinking excludes everything unseen, such as the human soul, mind, angels and demons, and holds that humans are aggregates of physical matter in motion in a human form and the human mind an active principle of grey matter.

This ancient pagan way of thinking forms the basis of the materialist psychology of Sigmund Freud, Darwin's evolutionary conception, modern evolutionary biology, secular humanism, secular trans-humanism and Marxist quasi-pantheist and animist dialectical materialism.

Though modern materialism originated in the metaphysics of ancient Ionians and Stoics during the sixth century BC it was the Atomists (Leucippus/Democritus, 460-357 BC; Epicurus, 342-270 BC; and Lucretius, 96-55 BC) who methodically developed Atomism, the root and source of modern scientific evolutionary materialism." The Modern Pagan and Pantheist Antithesis of the Word of God

There is nothing empirical about so-called scientific materialism and evolution. Metaphysical? Yes. Occult? Absolutely.