are the old religions(Greek, Norse, Egyptian, etc)considered pagan?

Question

in a question i posted earlier someone told me that she worships Isis which i know is the mother of Horus and wife of Osiris so are these old religions now considered pagan

sad how the dominant religeon decides the common term for religions before them

Answer 1

Yes they are all pagan!

Paganism (from Latin paganus, meaning "an old country dweller, rustic") is a term which, from a Western perspective, has come to connote a broad set of spiritual or cultic practices or beliefs of any folk religion, and of historical and contemporary polytheistic religions in particular.

The term can be defined broadly, to encompass the faith traditions outside the Abrahamic monotheistic group of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The group so defined includes the Dharmic religions (such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism), Native American religions and mythologies and Shinto as well as non-Abrahamic ethnic religions 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.

Answer 2

Pagan comes from the Latin for "country dweller" since so many of the rites were involved in fertility and good weather and protection from disease and famine. The Christians ,when they came to power, were less influential and numerous in the countryside than in the urban areas and labelled the Pre Christian Non Abrahamic(monotheist) religions pagan.;so the Egyptian,Roman,Celtic,Germanic and most other"folk religions" or "comunity or state religions" would be labelled pagan.
Heathen means basically the same thing in older English as one who lives in the heath or "the wilds". Pagan and heathen also became a pejoritive for people who did no live by the 10 Commandments.
Pagan is usually use to describe beliefs and practices that are traditional or semi-traditional from a polytheistic cosmology which usually has a nature religion of gods and spirits.

Answer 3

If you want to get very technical the word Pagan is simply the Latin for peasant. In the very beginning of the "Christian" faith it was a peasant, Paganis cult. The conversion of Europe from the old ways and the old names for the Deity was couched in misinformation and outright lies that are unfortunately seen as truth today.

It is not the Melchizedek, the Great Teacher, the ransom for the sins of this world I have any issue with. My ancestors in Eriu were followers of the White Christ before the Senator's Wives in Rome. Augustine of Hippo came hundreds of years after to bring us to a less true version of The Church. But what is untrue will not endure forever, The One that is Three is now, was then and ever shall be my Deity.

Answer 4

The dictionary.com definition of pagan is:

pa·gan:

–noun :
1. one of a people or community observing a polytheistic religion, as the ancient Romans and Greeks.

2. a person who is not a Christian, Jew, or Muslim.

3. an irreligious or hedonistic person.

–adjective:
4. pertaining to the worship or worshipers of any religion that is neither Christian, Jewish, nor Muslim.

5. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of pagans.

6. irreligious or hedonistic.


Based on that, I would say "Yes", they are considered pagan.

Answer 5

What you ought to concentration your learn on is that Christianity became into birthed out of Judaism. It became into properly common with the aid of the final 60s CE. Now that itsn't to assert that the numerous holy days and the numerous later rituals weren't "Christianized" from paganism. genuine sufficient early Christianity took the pagan dinner occasion days and "Christianized" them. those dinner occasion and vacations have been important to human beings and Christianity had no respectable fairs common in the recent testomony. So putting All Saints Day in late October, early November became into very possibly a strategic plan. i'm unsure i could call that plagerism because of the fact the ensuing feastday became into very diverse.

Answer 6

I think the Roman and Greek mythologies are the most obvious pagan religions, but "pagan" means whorshipers of gods who are different from the god of the old testament.
Pagans may have worshipped trees, birds, lions, statues
of golden calves, as well as Zeus, Jupiter or Aphrodite.

Answer 7

Yes they are still considered as pagan religions!

Answer 8

Yes its Pagan. It always was Pagan.
Blessed Be

Answer 9

The idea of "pagan" religions is more likely to be connected to the more rural "earth" religions, as the word "pagan" is derived from the Latin "paganus" meaning "rustic, or rural."

Answer 10

Yes. Properly considered, however, Christianity is a pagan religion too.