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No, and it is tragic. Christianity severed the priestly lines of transmission and initiation, but more importantly, the modern westerners, even if they are not religious, is so used to the christian religious model and assumptions that they could not ever understand pagan forms of spirituality. Christianity created a unification of practice, faith, and philosophy which didn't exist in pagan times (all three existed, but apart from one another). With the idea of progress becoming dominant because of Christianity, practice began to look like superstition which led to the protestant reformation, which led to atheism and so forth, and eventually the baby got thrown out with the bathwater, and westerners began to view the other two through the same lens. As well, it would take a massive shift in how people view time and metaphysics, even the most anti-christian modern man views time through a linear paradigm, which is incompatible with paganism.

The only way paganism could return is if there was such a fundamental challenge to western society that the idea of progress ceased to dominate, I hope that global warming may provide such a challenge, but the chance is slim.