Did people know that Paganism did not start in America?

Question

ANd there is now over 5 million of us in this country. Do people not know that Paganism as many forms and comes from every county in the world? Why would the fact there are people in the US that beleive in Pandanism make people hate us more thean any other country's people where it is Practiced. My Irish grandfather was one of those that showed me the path. His whole family were pagan as farback as anyone could remanber dose that mean you hate all Irish too

I want to thank people for making my point about Paganism coming from all over. This was in responds to a E-mail where the guy would not let me E- mial back

Answer 1

Yep, and some people in this country think pagans do not have a strong voting force. There may be fewer than other religions, but there is still a strong reliio-politcal force there. I am something of a grassroots pagan activist. Right now we are not the most hated religion in this country, but still very misunderstood.

Blessed Be,
Lord AmonRaHa

Answer 2

Even small school children learn about Greco-Roman pantheism, and even earlier pantheistic belief systems that could be (and often are) classified as Paganism. Like all other kids, I was taught about it these things (yes, even in my private religious school) quite early on. Of course, Paganism didn't start in America. Who would believe such a thing? Even if you look at modern-day Pagan movements, you can't discount what was happening on the European mainland before the religion became widely popularaized in the United States. And by the way, I certainly do not hate the Irish, nor do I hate Pagans.

Answer 3

Of course it didn't start in America. The term "pagan" just means "country folk," and has more recently come to mean "not Christian, Jew or Muslim," that being the three big monotheistic religions. Pagans are generally polytheists or bitheists. The term properly applies to as far back as the ancient Egyptians. Monotheism is much more recent. Actually, there was a pharaoh who tried to turn the Egyptians monotheist, but he did not succeed. As soon as he died, they reverted to their old ways.

Pagan is a very generic term. If you go to hating all pagans, you are hating the majority of people throughout history.

Answer 4

Think of one pagan God that you didn't make-up.
You can't, you know why.
Because the pagan religion is GONE.
Just because a bunch of people want to say it, doesn't make it so.
Now think about this.
All the trouble the Christians the Jew's and the Muslims went through, to do away with all the other god's, to avoid confusion, you all want to bring it back! WHY! Why would you do that.
You know it pulls people apart, not bringing them together.
That is why, holidays like Christmas (yes,a part of Christmas is a pagan holiday) and Easter were adopted by the Christian faith, to help bring people together.
OH well, maybe you pagans will start a few wars on what to name your Gods and what not.
Then we can do it all over AGAIN.

Answer 5

a million) basically the Mormons have self assurance that Jesus got here to North usa. in addition they have self assurance that the interior of sight individuals are the lost tribes of Israel, and that any one in each of color is stained for sinning against god. They believed that the backyard of Eden replaced into in Missouri, that they grow to be gods themselves in the event that they stay organic in existence, and a number of different non-christian issues 2) interior of sight American religions are no longer raven and submit to cults. they did no longer happen after some non-existent verbal substitute with Jesus/devil. The interior of sight American religions may be traced of their roots each and all of the earlier to the final ice age, while their ancestors crossed the ice bridge interior the Bering Strait from Asia into North usa. that must be approximately 40,000 years in the past. So 34,000 years formerly Abraham replaced into even born and started the religions that became Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

Answer 6

All religion is false religion and has pagan customs.
From the Easter bunny to the colored eggs as sex worshipers. To Santa clause who knows if your good or bad? I thought only God knew that?
then there is the ones reading their horoscope who profess to be Christians and astrology is condemned in the bible.
From worship ping rocks that fell from heaven to the little people in Irish religion. Lepacon's? Those little green guys.
Maybe that's kebler elvs? So how do you decide what's pagan? when you sacrifice it on an alter?

Answer 7

Erm, yeah. America is'nt much over 200 yrs. old and what's termed 'paganism' (ie. anything 'not Christian', right?) would have been going on since before the Cave Dudes discovered Geico.

Answer 8

Funnily enough, a lot of things predate America.

Answer 9

Only backward people hate other, the rest of us like each other.

Answer 10

I believe in Pandamonium!