What do atheists think of pagans and wiccans

[Fake Messiah]

What I think about pagans is what I generally think of other people of other religions: that they are delusional and brainwashed.

For example, it reminds me of the book about the existence of faeries, "The Middle Kingdom" from 1959.

This part is about is rather sentimental about the old times when people lived with nature, as with any religion it has its Golden age - when people were primitive and uneducated - and how we today are actually the ones who are primitive because we are not in touch with nature.

It is a commonplace to call primitive peoples 'children of nature' and to apply the same term to youngsters unspoilt by conventions or city living. Surely this is the key to everything.
Are we not all born clear-sighted, and is it not our artificial surroundings and upbringing which destroy this ability? Children are much better able to make psychic contacts than grown-ups are, for their natural powers have not yet been atrophied by artificiality. In the same way, on the purely physical side a city dweller can neither hear nor see nor smell with the keenness of a jungle tracker who has never left nature nor been unfaithful to it in any way but has kept his powers in constant use. From the very beginning until modem times the vast majority of the human race has been steeped in the country and has lived close to nature in a way that is very difficult for people in this mechanized age to appreciate.
Today the country is merely the adjunct of the cities, and in these the balance of power entirely lies; the dwindling rural districts have been degraded into a mere food factories to supply the teeming millions of the towns.

And, as every religion (snake oil), it blames that pesky materialism on why people are not in contact with faeries and why we don't see them anymore

And as materialism comes in, in many lands, so the old contacts with the spirit world of nature go out. Even in Ireland the materialists in the towns, with their newly acquired superficial education without wisdom, are attacking vigorously. But contacts with the spirit world have not yet vanished from Ireland and please God they never will, and this book shows that they are still here. The more universally town rule and factory regulations are brought into the country, the more materialistic the country must become and the more divorced from beauty and from the spirits of nature.

In ancient times, and almost up to this very age, this world of 'faerie' has been as much an accepted reality to the country people as has the normal material world around them. But today, though belief still remains widespread, the old knowledge of the organization, of the ordered hierarchy of the classes and castes that compose the spirit world has almost disappeared.