What exactly is "PAGANISM"?

Question

I hear people say pagan all the time, but what is it?

Answer 1

Definition in accordance with the Bible:

The Biblical definition of Paganism is succinctly stated in Romans 1:25, "Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen." The Pagan will worship any number of created objects rather than worshipping the Creator, Jesus Christ. [John 1:1-4] Thus, we see where Pagans worship the Sun, Moon, stars, constellations, trees, rivers, insects, birds, and Mother Earth. But, the most common creature for Pagans to worship is man himself. From time immemorial, man has been subjected to the insidious lie from Satan himself that a "Divine spark" resides within each person that only needs to be discovered to be activated. Thus could John Denver say, "I am becoming a god"!

Answer 2

The word "pagan" was a Roman term for "country folk" with kind of the feel of our word "redneck". As Christianity spread through the Empire, those who lived in small communities in the country were the last holdouts to the old ways. The term evolved to mean anybody who wasn't defined as a Christian or a Jew. Now we use the term pagan to mean anyone of a faith outside of the big 5 but it still means anyone who isn't jewish, muslim, or christian. It is a very broad term and there are very few generalizations that can be made about pagans. Some were born pagan, some were raised christian or some other faith and left it. Some follow many gods, some only one or two. Some follow old pantheons, some have a new batch. Most of us are sick and tired of being lumped together and I know a lot of atheists detest being lumped with us. Some pagans believe in magic and some don't. Basically, paganism isn't just one thing it is everything that Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are not.

Answer 3

Well the term pagan literally means the same as a village person,.. kinda like saying someone is a Hick. Uninformed. backwards.. etc.

The Romans when they bought Christianity to Britain, Called these people who worshiped gods of the hearth and home, literally there were hundreds of gods that these people worshiped. They called them Pagans or "hicks"

Answer 4

Any number of religions that people are making up by taking a few scraps of old religions, mixing them all together, and reapplying them in ways that are completely and absurdly at odds with the original practice. There is a naive view that the "ancients" were so "in touch with nature" and whatever, so they make up fantasy religions. It's the desperate attempt to escape from reality. It's the desperate attempt to avoid all serious investigation of philosophy, theology, or morality and replace it with mindless hedonism. It is a symptom of postmodernism: there is no interest in what is true (and no modern pagan has ever put together any convincing argument that paganism has validity), only in what makes them feel good.

It is childish and self-indulgent fantasy.

Answer 5

it means any number of religious or spiritual approaches to life some that were around before Christianity it's not the same as satanism tho some people say that

Answer 6

A word that some people have come to hate in the past four centuries.

Answer 7

here's a link about paganism


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paganism

Answer 8

Pretty much anything that isn't one of the Abrahamic religions.

Answer 9

The Bible says that in the last days there will be a falling away from the true faith to doctrines of demons
PAGANISM is one of those doctrines of demons

Answer 10

that's the pipe leading from the muffler to the engine bloc...who cares!!!!!!!!!