Are Christians Starting to Recognize the Appeal of Paganism

In an essay where a religious college student director writes about what he sees as sort of a victory for Christianity. He outlines various forms of paganism. He opens by speculating, as so many Christian apologists do, that those leaving the faith, nones, are not really leaving Christianity. They are going in many directions including mistakenly substitution other gods for God. He then says such people are becoming Pagans, worshipping something other than the real God. 

He makes the distinction that Paganism and Christianity have gods in different locations. The Christian God is located far off somewhere in the sky. The Pagan god is located in the actual world. It is, for example, the environment, the veganism, peace, etc. Both Pagans and Christians, he claims share a desire to find a divine. 

His line of argument is not new, not particularly interesting and is self-serving. Apologists seem, to believe it is necessary to preach people have a "longing" for some kind of dive thingy. By telling people, "You have a longing for a divine thingy" they can then say, "We have a great divine thingy. It defies death. Sign up during our end of year deal."

I can't speak for every human being, of course, but it seems to me vast numbers of people may be curious about the origins of the earth and of humans. They may be interested in the ultimate fate of humans. Out of this curiosity comes reading and groups about spiritual ideas or invisible worlds. This is not a "longing" but a curiosity. 

Ultimately, Christianity is a business, it needs revenue. If there are too many Pagans there will be no Christianity. "Longing", satisfied by veganism, will not pay for the church or preacher.