In 2015, R. C. Sproul said, “The culture is not merely post-Christian and post-modern. It has become not only neopagan, but neo-barbarian. Ideas have consequences. The ideas of the New Age, of our age, have their roots in ancient Gnosticism. That particular philosophy embraced a form of pantheism or monism: God is ‘the One’—the sum of everything. All is God, and God is all.”