Indeed, much as everyone who didn't speak a certain tongue of Greek was a barbarian - regardless of the variation in beliefs or motivations of age of culture etc.
It is true it is more scholarly today, though I have noticed that many lectures/authors seem to be moving away from using it as much now. "Traditional cult worship" as opposed to "pagan worship" etc.
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Pagan is not that...its a broader term for the older less established in this modern world that was once largely populated with in the old times and have all but died away into time now...
Especially with more attention being paid now to religion that predated the spread of Greek cult.
Rome has for a long time been unfairly thought of lacking any religion of its own, merely assimilating others, but they had animist beliefs long before they set up Juno and Saturn and co.
Which leads to other debates - differences between Pagan religion, animism and organised religion - though that is more on the mechanics of the cults, as opposed to what was believed.
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Well what many would call magic is really IMO is just intention. Strong energies that can be used only because they exist anyway and we use them all the time, yet not knowing we are. The power of attraction to what a person dwells on would make it many times happen.
Actually I find paganism quite fascinating. Some things differ from culture to culture, but they all have the roots in common, just different names and rituals...
True magic is neither black nor white. It' s both because nature is both, loving and cruel, all at the same time. The only good or bad is in the heart of the person. Life gives a balance of its own.
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Oct 5th, 2006 01:07 AM
I agree.
...And yet they point their fingers at everybody else and call them sinners...........
