Speaking of modern-day pagans...
Let's be honest. These people are completely insane. Groups like Earth First, ELF (Earth Liberation Front), ALF (Animal Liberation Front) are full of nuts who seem silly and mostly-harmless but who actually pose a significant danger to civilization. And that's their whole purpose.
(HT: RB and The Cloakroom Blog.)
Everybody's gotta have a religion. If you kill the old religions, then people will just make up new ones.