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Originally posted by PerfectionGirls
Religion at its basic root is Paganism. It all can be lumped into one heading which would be Pagen. To say you are Pagen as to say you are set apart from "traditional" religous practices is nieve. This is not ment as an insult at all.. I hope you understand that. Every form of religion is based on a pagenistic belief system.
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Actually I know exactly what you mean.. in fact a lot of major "religious" holidays have their basic roots in paganism. However the belief systems are much different, as are the beliefs about the "afterlife" and the "godhead" itself.
They integrated paganism into "organized" religion to make it more appealing to the masses who were already entrenched in paganism and had been for centuries. Myself, however, and many like me DO have different belief systems. I simply choose to categorize it as "pagan" as oppossed to any specific camp of wicca or earth religions, because everyone has their own way of communing with the powers that be, and I prefer not to have any restrictions put on my beliefs by stereotypes. What I believe and how I practice is between myself and mother earth.