what are Pagans?

anyone who doesnt have a blackberry

2007-09-25 08:29:48 · answer #1 · answered by tt --AM-- 3 · 5⤊ 3⤋

From Scott Cunningham's "Wicca A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner":

Pagan: from the Latin paganus, country dweller. Today used as a general term for followers of Wicca, and other magical, shamanistic, and polytheistic religions. Naturally, Christians have their own peculiar definition of this word. It can be interchanged with neo-pagan.

Neo-pagan: literally, new-pagan. A member, follower, or sympathizer of one of the newly formed pagan religions now spreading throughout the world. All Wiccans are pagan, but not all pagans are Wiccan.

Wicca: a contemporary pagan religion with spiritual roots in shamanism and the earliest expressions of reverence of nature. Among its major motifs are: reverence for the Goddess and the God; reincarnation; magic; ritual observances of the full moon, astronomical and agricultural phenomena; spheroid temples, created with personal power, in which rituals occur.

2007-09-25 08:48:37 · answer #2 · answered by Janet T 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋

By Abrahamic reckoning, people who follow the religions of the pre-jewish/christian/islamic world. Everything from the old nature and ancestor worship to people who worship the Greek or Egyptian gods, for example.

Neo-pagans are folks who attempt to reconstruct these often dead belief systems, usually by filling in the blanks that history (and attempts at utter destruction by the Abrahamic religions) with eastern philosophy or personal beliefs. Wicca is a good example, being a synthesis of what could be recovered about the old nature-worship of Europe, and specifically the British Isles, along with the founder, Gerald Gardner's own beliefs and opinions, which were primarily drawn from Western magical traditions.

2007-09-25 08:33:48 · answer #3 · answered by dead_elves 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋

Paganism is a religion of nature, in other words Pagans revere Nature. Pagans see the divine as immanent in the whole of life and the universe; in every tree, plant, animal and object, man and woman and in the dark side of life as much as in the light. Pagans live their lives attuned to the cycles of Nature, the seasons, life and death.

2007-09-25 08:30:20 · answer #4 · answered by MotherB 4 · 5⤊ 0⤋

Pagan was the Roman term for country-dweller, or one who wasn't part of the empire.

Later, it was applied to anyone not of an Abrahamic faith. (Everyone but Jews, Christians and Muslims.)

Now, the term is used by recconstructionist religions or any religion that is earth-centric. Including Asatru, Voodoo, Wicca, Santeria, Shamanism, Druidry, etc.

2007-09-25 08:34:04 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋

People.

2007-09-25 08:53:32 · answer #6 · answered by Sal D 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋

The beautiful and everlasting creations, created by those beings who dare to dream the best dreams, EVER!!!!

2007-09-25 08:31:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋

Anyone who believes in the real old time religion!

2007-09-25 08:30:34 · answer #8 · answered by magix151 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋

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

2007-09-25 08:33:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋

Anyone who doesn't follow the Judeo-Christian beliefs although its original meaning was "country dweller."

2007-09-25 08:29:48 · answer #10 · answered by Keltasia 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋

One of the mining's who does not believe in God.

2007-09-25 12:19:07 · answer #11 · answered by lbelfer 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋

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