So you're a pagan, huh? Y'know, in the old Latin, "paganus" meant something like our "bumpkin" or "yokel". The Christians who took over the remnants of the crumbling Roman empire were urban-based. Their religion befitted the economic and social changes that called for a personal god who demanded individual obeisance as opposed to the communal-collective nature of the old gods. So they called those peasants out there clinging to the old ways pagans. I'm not religious in any way, shape or form, but if I was I'd probably be pagan, too.
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The Christians who took over the remnants of the crumbling Roman empire were urban-based. Their religion befitted the economic and social changes that called for a personal god who demanded individual obeisance as opposed to the communal-collective nature of the old gods.
So they called those peasants out there clinging to the old ways pagans.
I'm not religious in any way, shape or form, but if I was I'd probably be pagan, too.
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