Paganism (or heathenry) is a term used by Christians to denote religions which worships a god other than our own (i.e. the God of Abraham)
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| - Paganism (or heathenry) is a term used by Christians to denote religions which worships a god other than our own (i.e. the God of Abraham)
- Paganism was almost stamped out from Europe to Persia by the combined efforts of Christianity and Islam. However, many pagan traditions are present and/or thrive in the rest of the world. Additionally, many European pagan traditions are being revived by neo-pagan believers.
- The word Paganism has various meanings. For many Christians it is a derogatory word for any religion which is not Abrahamic, this corresponds to the Islamic concept of Kafir. Others see Paganism as synonymous with Polytheism. Well known Pagan religions are, the Greco Roman religion, the Celtic religion and the Nordic religion now known as Asatru. Pagan movements like Wicca blend these and other religious traditions. See New Age-ism.
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- The word Paganism has various meanings. For many Christians it is a derogatory word for any religion which is not Abrahamic. This corresponds to the Islamic concept of Kafir. Others see paganism as synonomous with Polytheism. Well known Pagan religions are, the Greco-Roman religion, the Celtic religion and the Nordic religion now known as Asatru. Neo-pagan movements like Wicca blend these and other religious traditions. See New Age-ism.
- Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller", "rustic") is a blanket term used to refer to various polytheistic, non Judeo-Christian religious traditions. Its exact definition may vary: It is primarily used in a historical context, referring to Greco-Roman polytheism as well as the polytheistic traditions of Europe before Christianization. In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions, and the indigenous traditions of the Americas, Central Asia and Africa, as well as non-Abrahamic folk religion in general. More narrow definitions will not include any of the world religions and restrict the term to local or rural currents not organized as civil religions. Characteristic of pagan traditions is the absence of proselytism and the pre
- Paganism is a false religion of the ancient hippies. They liked to worship other deities than God and get naked under full moons. Most were burned at the stake for their obvious heresy, but apparently Paganism is starting to make a comeback. Wicca is a hilarious cult founded by Gerald Gardner around the 1940's. It's practitioners are more often than not fat hairy lesbians who are less than pleased if you point out that not only did Gardner's own wife never join but he never cured his own asthma.
- Paganism is a blanket term used in various different contexts to refer to groups who are defined by either their religious beliefs, or in some cases lack thereof. In keeping with this, there is no one universally accepted definition of "paganism", with it being used alternatively to refer to a wide variety of different groups. In English of the 20th century onwards, it generally indicates non- and pre-Christian groups of worshippers, often with some connotation of a lack of culture or sophistication.
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| - Paganism (or heathenry) is a term used by Christians to denote religions which worships a god other than our own (i.e. the God of Abraham)
- Paganism was almost stamped out from Europe to Persia by the combined efforts of Christianity and Islam. However, many pagan traditions are present and/or thrive in the rest of the world. Additionally, many European pagan traditions are being revived by neo-pagan believers.
- The word Paganism has various meanings. For many Christians it is a derogatory word for any religion which is not Abrahamic, this corresponds to the Islamic concept of Kafir. Others see Paganism as synonymous with Polytheism. Well known Pagan religions are, the Greco Roman religion, the Celtic religion and the Nordic religion now known as Asatru. Pagan movements like Wicca blend these and other religious traditions. See New Age-ism.
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- The word Paganism has various meanings. For many Christians it is a derogatory word for any religion which is not Abrahamic. This corresponds to the Islamic concept of Kafir. Others see paganism as synonomous with Polytheism. Well known Pagan religions are, the Greco-Roman religion, the Celtic religion and the Nordic religion now known as Asatru. Neo-pagan movements like Wicca blend these and other religious traditions. See New Age-ism.
- Paganism is a false religion of the ancient hippies. They liked to worship other deities than God and get naked under full moons. Most were burned at the stake for their obvious heresy, but apparently Paganism is starting to make a comeback. Wicca is a hilarious cult founded by Gerald Gardner around the 1940's. It's practitioners are more often than not fat hairy lesbians who are less than pleased if you point out that not only did Gardner's own wife never join but he never cured his own asthma. This article is a stub. You can get a Tip of the Hat* from Stephen by adding only truthiness to it.*Tip of the Hat not guaranteed.
- Paganism is a blanket term used in various different contexts to refer to groups who are defined by either their religious beliefs, or in some cases lack thereof. In keeping with this, there is no one universally accepted definition of "paganism", with it being used alternatively to refer to a wide variety of different groups. In English of the 20th century onwards, it generally indicates non- and pre-Christian groups of worshippers, often with some connotation of a lack of culture or sophistication. Alchemists, because of the lack of common words for chemical processes as well as the need for secrecy, borrowed terms from pagan mythology and other esoteric fields. The book The Decline of Pagan Magic by Bathilda Bagshot studied the decline of the use of pagan magic.
- Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "country dweller", "rustic") is a blanket term used to refer to various polytheistic, non Judeo-Christian religious traditions. Its exact definition may vary: It is primarily used in a historical context, referring to Greco-Roman polytheism as well as the polytheistic traditions of Europe before Christianization. In a wider sense, extended to contemporary religions, it includes most of the Eastern religions, and the indigenous traditions of the Americas, Central Asia and Africa, as well as non-Abrahamic folk religion in general. More narrow definitions will not include any of the world religions and restrict the term to local or rural currents not organized as civil religions. Characteristic of pagan traditions is the absence of proselytism and the presence of a living mythology which explains religious practice. The term "pagan" is a Christian adaptation of the "gentile" of Judaism, and as such has an inherent Abrahamic bias, and pejorative connotations among Western monotheists, comparable to heathen and infidel also known as kafir (كافر) and mushrik in Islam. For this reason, ethnologists avoid the term "paganism," with its uncertain and varied meanings, in referring to traditional or historic faiths, preferring more precise categories such as polytheism, shamanism, pantheism, or animism. Since the later 20th century, "Pagan" or "Paganism" has become widely used as a self-designation by adherents of Neo-paganism. As such, various modern scholars have begun to apply the term to three separate groups of faiths: Historical Polytheism (such as Celtic polytheism and Norse paganism), Folk/ethnic/Indigenous religions (such as Chinese folk religion and African traditional religion), and Neo-paganism (such as Wicca and Germanic Neopaganism).
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