Is Hinduism paganism? I believe it is but I’m willing to see why it isn’t considered pagan.
Is Hinduism paganism? I believe it is but Im willing to see why it isnt considered pagan.
Is Hinduism paganism? I believe it is but I’m willing to see why it isn’t considered pagan.
How is it not paganism?
Paganism is any religion that isn’t Judaism, Islam, or Christianity. It’s not that complicated.
>Paganism is any religion that isn’t Roman Catholic
FTFY
Christians in the past use to consider Islam pagan although they stopped seeing Islam as pagan by the late Middle Ages when they finally understood it better
Christians still assert that Islam is pagan in many apologetics circles.
Muslims do the same to Christianity, ironically. Other Christians even do it to each other.
So what is paganism, outside of the laymans usage of "everything that I don't believe is paganism"?
"everything I don't like is paganism" is truly the proper sense of the word.
It's not used in any meaningful academic sense.
Well, that's stupid, I hate meaningless words
1. Any religions that isn't the abrahamic majority a given country. If your country is majority Islam, then Christians, Budhists, and other folk religions are pagan.
2. Any extinct non-abrahamic pagan. That's why old Hellenic, Nordic, Arabic, etc religions are considered pagan and no one's complaining while Hindu and Shinto are rarely called pagans.
Isn't paganism more used to refer to historic European religions? Specifically Germanic and Italic religions? So wouldn't that mean Hinduism is just Hinduism.
Or are we talking only from a Christian worldview in which everything that is not Christianity is paganism?
Muslims call Hindus pagan because they don't worship the israelite God
Everything unrelated to Judaism is paganism.
But Islam is descended from Judaism, kind of, it's debatable. Yet Christians often assert that it is based on paganism, and is therefore pagan.
Is paganism generally just multitheism? Or is it a specific set of religions?
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>hurr durr my religion isn't ackshually pagan
Said every pagan ever.
here's the red pill. it's hard to swallow for most. literally all religions are pagan.
I mean yeah it essentially is. Its just "Pagan/Paganism" generally applies to the pre-abrahamic faiths of europe and the mediterranean. Assuming you arent coming from the Abrahamic view of "everything but my religion is paganism" of course