Paganism, a term that sounds darkly enigmatic to ninety percent of the population who don't know what it means. I say this because having heard (actually read most of them) several people mention paganism, hardly a handful managed it correctly.
Paganism, is the term applied to all the religions and Gods lying outside of the holy trinity of Christianity-Judaism-Islam. All the religions, irrespective of being older or younger, similar or dissimilar to the three of them. Paganism is a cult term invented by The Church (who else?) around Renaissance in an attempt to discredit every religion in existence and to promote Christianity. In some stricter circles they argue that the Judaism, although the first credited religion, is now corrupted and is now another Pagan religion.
The term Pagan is Latin in origin means rural or rustic, the implied meaning can be guessed. Also it is the descendant of Jewish version called Gentile, which basically meant Non-Jew. The term Paganism basically implies disapproval, the big three looking down in disapproval. You can perhaps better explain the Pagan impact if you remember that one of the chief excuses the imperialists gave for colonization is to spread the teachings of Christianity. That is basically what Paganism is, a total rejection of all the religious beliefs of any civilization except their own. Committed as I am to being an atheist, this is still a larger bowl of shitload than the theistic crap people come up with. I mean, at the very least I can understand some people's innate desire to need a God, to pretend that they are not alone or that they are not in charge or just for some emotional support. But to the claims of a religion over other, and when majority of others in all likelihood are older than the holy trinity, I say classic west.
The holy trinity claims the same origin, The Abraham, a king that basically spoke to God and they had a pact and that he was respectively the first Christian, Muslim or Jew. Actually, Bible accepts him to be a Jew, at least before he spoke to God, the chosen one or the father from all others are descended. So basically, since the first man known is Adam (not same as Abraham) basically the first religion born was Atheism! Anyway, this Abraham offered his son Isaac to God, who the holy trinity considers father of Israel. Anyway, the funniest part of the whole was Abraham married his sister Sarai or Sarah! It is true! Abraham married his father's daughter, from a different wife, so half sister basically. That would really explain the western pervert characteristics... Anyway these are the basic facts.
Christianity, everyone knows originated with the start of positive time. The Hebrew bible implies that The Moses basically received it from God sometime during the second century Before Christ. And the youngest, Islam born with Prophet Muhammad during the 7Th century. That leaves a gaping hole of roughly 8000 years (for Americas) to 35,000 years (for Eurasia and Oceania) between origin of religion and human civilization. And these are the most lenient approximations, the first homo sapien is confirmed at 130,000 BC and suspected to be evolved at 200,000 BC. So basically, it took God seven days to create the world but another 50,000 years to spread his own message. Whoa!
Now the most powerful and beautiful of the ancient civilization are Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese and of course Indian. All of these civilizations have their own Gods, and their own religions. All except China believed in polytheistic religions. China preferred Confucianism or Taoism and later Buddhism. Basically the fallacy of reasoning lies here, that the Gods accepted thousands of years before the creation of some religion are deemed random, even Satanic by the children religions of the civilization. That idea is laughable and yet presents a very realistic picture of the domination of the west over east, that threatens not only to engulf the creations but the very identity of the soul. I don't think that either of the remaining religions will succumb to these forces in a way Judaism did, but it is still sad to see Christian Missionaries trying to spend millions of dollars a year to spread Christianity to the remote tribal regions of the world in stead of carrying on operations for mere welfare of people without the thought of gain. I hope that our religious leaders, that hold more power than American President, will come of age and declare a war not on other religions but on inhumanity, poverty and hunger faced by millions.
