Btw, you keep claiming that paganism is a religion. If I were to follow that line of thought, what ISN'T a religion then? Secular Humanism believes that humans can live accordingly without the belief in a higher being. I won't go as far as to say that's worshipping humans, but if it was, wouldn't it be considered paganism? And if it was considered paganism, wouldn't it most nearly resemble secular humanism, rather than ethical monotheism?
If traditional religion is absent from the public arena, secular religions are likely to satisfy man's quest for meaning. ... It was an atheistic faith in man as creator of his own grandeur that lay at the heart of Communism, fascism and all the horrors they unleashed for the twentieth century. And it was adherents of traditional religions - Martin Niemöller, C.S. Lewis, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Buber - who often warned most clearly of the tragedy to come from attempting to build man's own version of the New Jerusalem on Earth