Religion: the human practice of
the collection of world views, beliefs, and how man
relates to their relationship with the unknown. Each
religion establishes holidays to celebrate events,
individuals and beliefs
"Paganism (from Latin pāgānus 'rural',
'rustic', later 'civilian') is a term first used in the fourth century
by early
Christians for
people in the Roman
Empire who
practiced polytheism, or ethnic
religions other
than Judaism.
In the time of the Roman Empire, individuals fell into the pagan class
either because they were increasingly rural and provincial relative to
the Christian population, or because they were not milites
Christi (soldiers
of Christ). Alternative
terms used in Christian texts were hellene, gentile,
and heathen.[1] Ritual
sacrifice was
an integral part of ancient Greco-Roman
religion and
was regarded as an indication of whether a person was pagan or
Christian. Paganism
has broadly connoted the "religion of the peasantry"
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