Josh

Can we stop there?

Yeah, well, you mentioned those religions, and it's pretty key to mention the Abrahamic religions because basically anything else outside of that was considered pagan historically. The word pagan actually was pretty much an insult at first when Christianity was on the rise, and we'll talk a lot about that here in a second.

Yeah, well, you mentioned those religions, and it's pretty key to mention the Abrahamic religions because basically anything else outside of that was considered pagan historically. The word pagan actually was pretty much an insult at first when Christianity was on the rise, and we'll talk a lot about that here in a second.

Yeah, well, you mentioned those religions, and it's pretty key to mention the Abrahamic religions because basically anything else outside of that was considered pagan historically. The word pagan actually was pretty much an insult at first when Christianity was on the rise, and we'll talk a lot about that here in a second.

In the Roman Empire, if you did not convert to Christianity, you were called paganus, which is Latin for country dweller, which is basically like, hey, if you're not a Christian, you're a bumpkin, a.k.a. pagan, which is interesting.

In the Roman Empire, if you did not convert to Christianity, you were called paganus, which is Latin for country dweller, which is basically like, hey, if you're not a Christian, you're a bumpkin, a.k.a. pagan, which is interesting.

In the Roman Empire, if you did not convert to Christianity, you were called paganus, which is Latin for country dweller, which is basically like, hey, if you're not a Christian, you're a bumpkin, a.k.a. pagan, which is interesting.

I think bumpkin summed it up nicely.

I think bumpkin summed it up nicely.

I think bumpkin summed it up nicely.

Yeah. For some reason, bumpkin does have just sort of a like I feel like bumpkins are happy.

Yeah. For some reason, bumpkin does have just sort of a like I feel like bumpkins are happy.

Yeah. For some reason, bumpkin does have just sort of a like I feel like bumpkins are happy.

All right. So should we talk a little bit about, you know, there's kind of two parts to this. There's ancient paganism, which is one thing that we're going to speak about now. And then later we're going to talk a little bit about modern paganism. But the kind of key distinction here is.

All right. So should we talk a little bit about, you know, there's kind of two parts to this. There's ancient paganism, which is one thing that we're going to speak about now. And then later we're going to talk a little bit about modern paganism. But the kind of key distinction here is.

All right. So should we talk a little bit about, you know, there's kind of two parts to this. There's ancient paganism, which is one thing that we're going to speak about now. And then later we're going to talk a little bit about modern paganism. But the kind of key distinction here is.

modern paganism isn't like, hey, we just brought back everything they were doing back then because it went away for a long time and now we're going to do that same stuff. It was, you know, inspired by some of this stuff. But as you'll see, not a lot of text survived. So modern paganism is basically its own new thing.

modern paganism isn't like, hey, we just brought back everything they were doing back then because it went away for a long time and now we're going to do that same stuff. It was, you know, inspired by some of this stuff. But as you'll see, not a lot of text survived. So modern paganism is basically its own new thing.

modern paganism isn't like, hey, we just brought back everything they were doing back then because it went away for a long time and now we're going to do that same stuff. It was, you know, inspired by some of this stuff. But as you'll see, not a lot of text survived. So modern paganism is basically its own new thing.

Yeah. But if we're going to go back to ancient paganism, we can talk about some of the different elements of because, like you said, this is a lot of different things that are wrapped up under the term paganism. But animism is the first one. And that is the belief that every every object on the planet basically has a spirit. People do. My dog does. Your dog does that, which I totally believe.