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Right. Yeah. And in retrospect, looking at this now, it's like, gosh, talk about getting your wires crossed.

Yeah. So we're talking about paganism, everybody. And hats off to Dave, too, first of all, for helping us with this. This is a huge, big lump of a topic that almost every one of the things we're going to talk about could be broken out into its own episode. Right. So we're going to have to summarize in a lot of ways. We're going to get a lot of stuff wrong.

Yeah. So we're talking about paganism, everybody. And hats off to Dave, too, first of all, for helping us with this. This is a huge, big lump of a topic that almost every one of the things we're going to talk about could be broken out into its own episode. Right. So we're going to have to summarize in a lot of ways. We're going to get a lot of stuff wrong.

Yeah. So we're talking about paganism, everybody. And hats off to Dave, too, first of all, for helping us with this. This is a huge, big lump of a topic that almost every one of the things we're going to talk about could be broken out into its own episode. Right. So we're going to have to summarize in a lot of ways. We're going to get a lot of stuff wrong.

So apologies already to all of our pagan listeners out there. And let us know, correct us about what we do get wrong, but we're going to try our best not to get stuff wrong. Because it's a really interesting set of religions. We should say that's what paganism is. It's not a religion.

So apologies already to all of our pagan listeners out there. And let us know, correct us about what we do get wrong, but we're going to try our best not to get stuff wrong. Because it's a really interesting set of religions. We should say that's what paganism is. It's not a religion.

So apologies already to all of our pagan listeners out there. And let us know, correct us about what we do get wrong, but we're going to try our best not to get stuff wrong. Because it's a really interesting set of religions. We should say that's what paganism is. It's not a religion.

It's a set of typically nature-based religions that before the original ancient paganism predated any of what we call the Abrahamic religions, the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And that's my definition of paganism.

It's a set of typically nature-based religions that before the original ancient paganism predated any of what we call the Abrahamic religions, the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And that's my definition of paganism.

It's a set of typically nature-based religions that before the original ancient paganism predated any of what we call the Abrahamic religions, the monotheistic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. And that's my definition of paganism.

Yeah. We haven't gotten anything wrong so far, so yeah.

Yeah. We haven't gotten anything wrong so far, so yeah.

Yeah. We haven't gotten anything wrong so far, so yeah.

Oh, yeah, it's definitely interesting. It's funny because that means that at some point in time, and we'll talk about when that happened, Christianity suddenly leapt forward as like a sophisticated thing. So the tables basically turned because originally some of the Greek and actually Roman Christians, Pagans were very suspicious of Christianity and said all sorts of libelous things against them.

Oh, yeah, it's definitely interesting. It's funny because that means that at some point in time, and we'll talk about when that happened, Christianity suddenly leapt forward as like a sophisticated thing. So the tables basically turned because originally some of the Greek and actually Roman Christians, Pagans were very suspicious of Christianity and said all sorts of libelous things against them.

Oh, yeah, it's definitely interesting. It's funny because that means that at some point in time, and we'll talk about when that happened, Christianity suddenly leapt forward as like a sophisticated thing. So the tables basically turned because originally some of the Greek and actually Roman Christians, Pagans were very suspicious of Christianity and said all sorts of libelous things against them.

And then as Christianity rose to prominence, it used that same playbook against pagans. But yeah, it makes sense that it's like you were considered a hick or not up to date if you were still a pagan once Christianity became a thing in the Roman Empire. Yeah.

And then as Christianity rose to prominence, it used that same playbook against pagans. But yeah, it makes sense that it's like you were considered a hick or not up to date if you were still a pagan once Christianity became a thing in the Roman Empire. Yeah.

And then as Christianity rose to prominence, it used that same playbook against pagans. But yeah, it makes sense that it's like you were considered a hick or not up to date if you were still a pagan once Christianity became a thing in the Roman Empire. Yeah.

I thought so, too. I like bumpkin because it's like it's an insult, but it's just so round and happy that it's hard to be angered by it if somebody calls you a bumpkin.