>>23940505>reignitedThere's no such thing as paganism. It's just a derogatory term referring to a fairly large set of religions. Pagus is the latin term for a rural district. All those non-Christian religions were lumped into "pagans" in reference to most of the urban populations converting while most of the non-Christians were either just some guys in military cults or living in the pagi.
In reality, most of those religions are practically dead with fairly few people actually knowing anything about those religions. Maybe some Sami practicing Ukko's religion or a few true hold-overs elsewhere. The people you see that say they're pagan like
>>23940520are usually some sort of atheist and use "paganism," or more correctly neo-paganism, wicca, satanism, etc. A sort of a LARP religion. There are some cases where it's just 19th century spiritualism by a different name. The spiritualist case from my experience in meeting some of those people is typically an outgrowth of schizophrenia. The wiccans I've met for example were either diagnosed schizophrenics or LARPers who wanted to make their parents mad. Most people are far disconnected from those religions. Even "Christians" in the west are really just modernists who go all in with a sunk-cost fallacy for having been raised in it while living an entirely irreligious life. There are very few true Christians in that regard in any sect that actually live like they truly believe in it outside of the third world.
Third world countries like Islamic countries or parts of Africa where people having no contact with anything outside of their little village will live according to Christianity, Islam, or anything like that. Hinduism in particular is just whatever jeets will twist it into to suit their coprophilic tendencies so it endures like that. Most of the time "religion" in the modern world is just an ethno-cultural identification. Nothing more. You're catholic because you're Irish, Lutheran because you're Finish, etc.
