[Discuss] anti-state-religion

[Karl Greenley]

On 5/28/07, James <TheKobald at tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> Karl Greenley wrote:
> >
> >  "Pagan" meant "not-Roman" until Christianity took ho;d, at which
> > point it changed in sense to mean "Not-Christian"
> >
> >  In BattleMaster, it pretty clearly refers to anyone of a
> > non-organized religion or of an organized one that yours want to
> > declare as not only incompatible and wrong, but less civilized.
> >
> No, pagan now means worshiping more than one God.

  That's polytheism. In some usage, pagan is used as shorthand for
neo-pagan- the modern derivations or reconstructions of old European
beliefs or Earth worship, some of which are all over the board-
polytheism, monotheism, pantheism, animism, and even simple organized
spirituality are represented.

  The BattleMaster context, though, is pretty clear- there are still
peasants with homegrown beliefs that don't have the sanction of being
an official noble religion that perfectly fit the bill for pagan as it
was used in the corresponding period.

-- 
-Karl