The pagan loves the earth in order to enjoy it and confine himself within it; the Christian in order to make it purer and draw from it the strength to escape from it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Scratch the Christian and you find the pagan - spoiled.
To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.
Contemporary paganism gives me a subjective lens through which the world in which I live can be interpreted on an aesthetic and an ethical basis. I'm interested in narrative, myth, and story, in folklore and the way we connect to the turning of the seasons and the natural world.
Paganism is wholesome because it faces the facts of life.
For those who struggle with anti-pagan prejudices and stereotypes, Humanist Paganism might be a powerful educational tool. It can show that a pagan can be a sophisticated, cosmopolitan, and enlightened person, and that a pagan culture can be artistically vibrant, environmentally conscious, intellectually stimulating, and socially just.
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.
I'm pagan.
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
Love begets love; and thus the love of Christ displayed upon the cross woos and wins the sinner and binds him repenting to the cross, believing and adoring the matchless depths of a Saviour's love.
The virtue of paganism was strength; the virtue of Christianity is obedience.